United States
Using New Urbanism To Balance Profits, Social Resposibility
By implementing New Urbanism concepts, a Canadian land developer aims to balance profits with sensible planning.
Decentralization No Answer To Terrorism
Scattering people and offices will not make American cities less vulnerable to terrorist attacks.
Protecting Ranch Land From Development
Environmentalists and ranchers are working to protect and preserve ranch land and buildings.
Physicist Creates System For Attack-Proof Buildings
A physics professor at the University at Buffalo in New York has created a system that reduces the physical force of impacts. The system could be used to protect buildings from terrorist attacks and earthquakes.
Industrial-Tourism Program Under Scrutiny
A federal program that provides funding to turn unused industrial sites into tourist attractions is under scrutiny for abuse.
Experts Agree On Practical Benefits Of Skyscrapers
Architectural experts at a symposium on skyscrapers that tall buildings offer practical benefits.
CDC Sprawl Study May Be Fake
The Thoreau Institute charges that a recent study warning about the health dangers of living in the suburbs is fake.
Remote Real Estate Becomes Popular
In a lousy market, the smart money is on real estate. And the more remove the real estate, the better.
Cities Become Post-Nomadic
After a half-century of ever-increasing mobility, Americans are becoming more sedentary. What does this mean for cities?
Don't Use The 'Z' Word
What's so bad about Zoning? Planner and attorney Edward McMahon separates the myths from the facts.
New Beginnings For Toronto's Neglected Waterfront
Toronto's central waterfront — that large, missing tooth in the city's smile — comes under unprecedented public scrutiny this week.
Riverfront Redevelopment: A Booming Trend
Cities across the nation are reconnecting with rivers; riverfront redevelopment is booming for aesthetic, environmental, and economic reasons and also as an "antidote" to sprawl.
Cartoonitecture
What is cartoonitecture? Drive into the suburbs and go to the biggest new shopping center you can find.
Amtrak Sued By High-Speed Train Maker
The company building high-speed trains for Amtrak's Washington-Boston route has sued the railroad.
Council To Amtrak: Reorganize Or Liquidate
The Amtrak Reform Council concluded that Amtrak will be break even and should be reorganized or liquidated.
New Urbanist Project Construction Starts Soar
Neighborhood-scale projects completed or under construction rose by 37 percent in 2001.
Is Toronto's Smart Growth Council Up To The Task?
Greater Toronto, Canada, needs a strong body to tackle landuse and transportation issues. Is the so-called smart growth management up to the task?
Hospitals Are Intregrating Retail Development
The new trend in hospital planning and development is to include miniature malls and retail stores.
Amtrak Asked To Plan Its Own Liquidation
A federal panel concluded that Amtrak will not be able to attain financial self-sufficiency by a congressional deadline and should draw up a plan for its own liquidation.
Trading The City For The Country
An increasing trend shows urban residents giving up city life to move to the country. Is it worth it?
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.
Eagle County Government
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Nashville Planning Department
The Architects Foundation
University of Cincinnati Online
The Pocatello Development Authority
The Urban Renewal Agency of the City of Pocatello
Journal of the American Planning Association
