United States
Garbage In, Resource Out
Social entrepreneurs are putting sustainability into practice. Here is an innovative practical solution that creates a business opportunity and generates social benefits while solving an environmental problem.
'Resource Conservation Challenge' Announced By EPA
The EPA kickoffs its campaign challenging Americans to boost national recycling rates and revitalizing the landscape.
The Aesthetics Of Security
Slate presents a slide show demonstrating various aesthetics of security, from Wurster Hall at U.C. Berkeley to U.S. embassies abroad.
Likely Potential Terrorist Targets
Urban design writer Anthony Flint catalogs the most likely urban targets for terrorism.
Greatest Architectural Works Of The 21st Century
The AIA and USA Today teemed up to come up with this list of the greatest architectural works of the 21st century.
Lower Manhattan Rebuilding Efforts 'Paralyzed'
Aiming to please everyone, the efforts to rebuild Lower Manhattan are 'paralyzed'
Quaint Or Sprawl? Pick One
Would you rather live in a charming place or a convenient one?
Understanding The Impact Of 9-11 On Our Cities
This special PLANetizen section presents the most-read news articles about 9-11 from our news archives. Also included are eight thought-provoking PLANetizen Op-Eds.
Report Criticizes Architects, Skyscrapers
A parliamentary committee in the U.K. criticizes architects for designing skyscrapers.
Operation Phoenix: History Of An Architectural Symbol
The renovation team had taken on the difficult task to repair the Pentagon and added to it an impossible deadline.
Rebuilding Lower Manhattan: Architects 'Think Big'
Who are the high-profile architects involved in the project to create an alternate vision for Lower Manhattan?
The 'Epic Story' Of The Twin Towers
A fascinating biography of the ambitious Twin Towers and how the innovations that made the towers possible played a role in their fall. (All 7 chapters available online.)
Pentagon Renovation: A Promise Kept
A few weeks after 9-11, the renovation team promised to repair the Pentagon by Sept 11, 2002. They kept the promise. Here is the amazing story behind the achievement that many considered impossible.
Ask Umbra: Environmental Advice
Grist Magazine features Umbra -- the world's funniest environmental advice column.
The Call For Trains Is Widening
Andy Rooney argues that trains have important advantages that the nation had better consider.
TNDs With A Twist?
Builder Delcor Homes is targeting Generation X buyers who want a sense of neighborhood.
A Real Organic Solution For Ground Zero
The efforts rebuild the site of the World Trade Center are a 'fiasco' but the area is starting to heal itself without the benefit of planning strategies.
Low-Income Homeownership: Examining The Goal
A new book gathers the observations of housing experts on low-income homeownership and its effects on households and communities.
Dense, Denser, Denser Still
Perceptions can mislead when it comes to units per acre.
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.
City of Rosemead
Rutgers University, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
One Hundred Miles
University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS)
Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY)
The Architects Foundation
City of Cambridge
Montrose County
The Pocatello Development Authority
