United States
Preserving The American Dream By Cost Not Coercion
Freedom of choice in housing, transportation, and lifestyle should be controlled by monetary costs, not inefficient and coercive land use policies.
Best And Worst Places For Jobs
CNN ranks metropolitan areas based on employment and unemployment figures.
SUVs: Stealing The Public Wealth
David Burwell offers three principles for for developing rationality and rules in the allocation of public road space.
Ten Most Enlightened Suburbs
The Utne Reader offers their list of the ten most 'enlightened' suburbs across the U.S.
Ranking The Greenest And Meanest Cars And SUVs
The 2003 ACEEE's Green Book ranks the 12 least polluting, most efficient vehicles -- and the 12 worst.
A One-Car Household: Challenges And Benefits
Some families are committed to staying a one-car household despite the challenges.
Placemaking: Creating A Dreamy City
Regeneration professionals use the power of "placemaking" to bring real, concrete benefits to city.
Affordable Housing: New APA Report Assesses Regional Approaches
The APA report's conclusions are one more indication that planners and organizations associated with the "smart growth" movement are zeroing in on the need for more housing, rather than efforts to contain growth and development.
Rail Transit Is A Lost Cause
Across the nation, rail transit systems are are losing riders money. So why do city governments keep building them?
Pentagon Quietly Seeking Freedom To Pollute
The Pentagon is seeking exemptions from major U.S. environmental laws which would give it the freedom to pollute land, air, and water without being liable for damages.
Is Transit A Waste?
Why is it that even after spending billions to build mass transit, fewer people commute to work by public transportation today than in the 1960s?
World's Most Expensive Office Space
London, Tokyo and Paris beat out New York as the priciest places to lease office space.
Xeriscape Revolution Could Transform Southwest Cities
In major cities across the Southwest, xeriscape landscaping is replacing the traditional lawn.
'Character Development' For Subdivisions
To attract buyers, developers are spending vast sums of money to give new subdivisions a sense of place and community.
Hydrogen And The End Of The Oil Era
Energy independence is possible if we can launch an Apollo-style effort to harness the power of hydrogen.
GM Abandons Electric Car
General Motors is abandoning the EV1 electric vehicle.
Generation X Home Buying Trends
Generation Xers are traditional after all -- they buy homes like the ones they grew up in.
Profile Of Joy Grant: International Environmentalism
Joy Grant is helping the Nature Conservancy to become a global environmental organization.
Fear The Forests
Tree farming in Chile has dire economic and social impacts on the indigenous people.
Smart Growth Is On The Right Track
Outdated building and zoning codes present challenges for smart growth.
FREE Course: Walkable City 1: Why Walkability?
After describing his path towards focusing on walkability as the essence of good planning, Jeff Speck marches through his five principal reasons for making more walkable places.
Reinventing Malls: Planning Alchemy—Turning Gray Fields Into Gold
The course focuses on the opportunities and imperatives that shape reinvention of mall sites.
KFH Group Inc.
Greater Baltimore Committee
Eagle County Government
The Architects Foundation
University of Cincinnati Online
The Pocatello Development Authority
The Urban Renewal Agency of the City of Pocatello
