United States
How To Manage Sprawl
This article discusses the current trend of increasing urban populations and how to resolve the issues they create.
Debunking The Claims Of Transit Critics
Sam Zimmerman argues transit opponents have been using "irrelevant or half-true claims."
Suburban Assault Vehicle
These converted SUVs feature 50-caliber machine guns or a 40mm grenade launcher and armor plating.
GIS Becomes Mainstream
In the last three years, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have become a mainstream technology in the enterprise, says CIO Magazine.
Architecture And Politics
Architecture is inseparable from politics.
A 'Batty' Idea To Save Sick Forests
Mississippi State University researchers use bats to assess the health of a forest.
Fading Italian City Reinvents Itself As Technology Haven
A 13th-century Italian village on the verge of extinction invests in technology to redesign itself as an Internet haven.
'Sweeping' Redesign To Revitalize Toronto Neighborhood.
The City of Toronto, Canada, is proposing to revitalize a multicultural neighborhoood.
Requiring Architects To Design Apartment Buildings
Faced with a proliferation of appalling apartment buildings, New South Wales mandates that architects design the buildings.
Conservation Dollars Into Smart Growth Opportunities
A new report shows that states can link their investments in open space with practical measures to shape economic development.
Rural Smart Growth Strategies
A new report illustrates promising rural growth strategies that revitalize small towns.
Future Of The Department Store
For more than 30 years, the mall industry has depended on department stores -- which are now struggling against discounters and specialty stores.
The Value Of Good Design
Good design creates value – in products, buildings, even cities. Smart City Radio investigates.
Real Estate Investment In Latin America
Promising returns from real estate investments in Latin American arepossible, if risks Are understood.
Climate Change: A Clear And Present Danger
Its time to start a war on climate change.
Conservation Subdivision Design
While conventional environmental wisdom suggests that only draconian government efforts to preserve open space will work, the market is already well ahead of the curve.
America's Water Crisis
America's aging water infrastructure needs a massive upgrade. Very soon.
Combining Architecture And Nature
How can nature be more an intergral part of architecture?
The New Trend: Lake-side Living
A growing number of residents and cities are finding that development adjacent to lakes is a way to dramatically improve the quality of life.
A New Type Of Suburbanite In A New Type Of Suburb
Where the hip suburbanites can be found. Details the exploits of "Patio Man" in "Sprinkler City", with his "Realtor Wife" and designer kids.
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
