United States
Strip Center Investing: A Bear Market For Dummies
The shopping center sector is entering its third phase of consolidation, with investors gunning for strip centers and B-C malls.
GAO: ANWR Cleanup Costs Not Counted
A report by the General Accounting Office says oil firms haven't earmarked as much a $6 billion in future cleanup costs as a result of drilling near the drilling in the nearby Arctic National Wildlife Refuge park.
Greener Growth With Cleaner Coal
Growth without harming the environment is possible.
Demographic Change In Medium-Sized Cities
This survey looks at 2000 Census data for 100 medium-sized U.S. cities and reveals that they experienced demographic changes similar to their big city peers.
A Tale Of Two Cities
Who sprawls the most? It depends on whose definition you use.
For Whom The Road Tolls
While "free" ways may be endangered, not all road pricing schemes are equal.
Gridlock On The 'Reverse Commute'
With more jobs moving to the suburbs traffic congestion on the reverse commute is getting worse.
What Defines 'Wise Use' Of Public Land?
How do we balance economic values and environmental sensisbilities for public lands?
Coping With Gridlock
One third of the average city's land is devoted to serving the car. Is there a way out?
How Will Technology Affect Cities?
Are the Network and its attendant gadgets driving us apart or bringing us together? Smart City Radio investigates.
A Breakthrough In Solar Energy?
Scientists are developing inexpensive organic solar cells that could be sprayed on roofs.
Planning Theory: Issue 2
The second issue of a journal on Planning Theory is released by Sage Publications.
Escaping Gridlock
In the new millennium, when the futurists said we'd all be wafting to work in sky cars, we're decidedly earthbound.
Talking Park Benches
Park benches in a northern England town have been fitted with MP3 players to provide stories relevant to the benches' locations.
A Mobile Power Plant?
PowerTrainUSA is a mobile power plant that can travel to areas of power shortages.
Planned Communities: Utopian Experiments
Auroville and New Oroville pursue radically different approaches to building utopian planned communities.
Rural Mortgage Corporation Practices Investigated
Farmer Mac, the entity created by Congress to improve the availability ofmortgage credit to rural America, is being analyzed by the GeneralAccounting Office (GAO) regarding reports made about the stockholder-ownedcorporation.
Brownfields Are Looking Greener
States and municipalities have begun to take a more active approach to redevelopment of contaminated sites.
Neighborhoods Get More Crowded
USA Today reports that with increases in immigration, many neighborhoods are becoming more dense, causing a clash of cultures.
The Hidden Costs Of Sprawl
Planners and economists are beginning to examine the hidden costs of urban sprawl.
Urban Design for Planners 1: Software Tools
This six-course series explores essential urban design concepts using open source software and equips planners with the tools they need to participate fully in the urban design process.
Planning for Universal Design
Learn the tools for implementing Universal Design in planning regulations.
Caltrans
City of Fort Worth
Mpact (founded as Rail~Volution)
City of Camden Redevelopment Agency
City of Astoria
City of Portland
City of Laramie
