United States
Cities Bet On Ultramodern Museums
Museums across the nation are spending $3 billion on new projects. Newsweek reviews designs, architects, and controversies surrounding the nation's unprecedented museum boom.
How State Policies Affect The Health Of Cities
This paper examines city-suburban fiscal disparities and shows that state tax policies may be exacerbating urban fiscal conditions.
HUD Raises FHA Loan Limits
In a dramatic move to spur construction of much-needed multi-family rental housing across the country, U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Mel Martinez today proposed that HUD raise the FHA loan limits by 25 percent.
New Urbanism: A Fashionable Housing Trend?
The Sun-Sentinel seems amazed that people would want to live in downtown and calls new urbanism a fashionable new housing trend.
The Worst Streets In North America
Members of the The New Urbanism movement have compiled a list of the most sprawling strips of asphalt and concrete in the nation.
Building Density With Rowhouses
The rowhouse, a relatively new building form in the Pacific Northwest, is still evolving as a modern solution for higher density communities.
The Meaning Of Place
What may be needed is a built environment flexible enough to allow the quality of experience to evolve over time.
Census Shows Story Of Irish Immigration
Census figures reflect settlement patterns of the two waves of Irish immigrants to the U.S.
Housing Projects Get Aid For Bills
U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Mel Martinez announced that HUD will earmark an additional $105 million to help pay the utility bills of public housing authorities and resident management corporations blind-sided by energy costs.
Immigration Fueling Big U.S. Cities
According to census figures, cities that attracted immigrants grew turning around decades of deterioration.
New Community Development Journal
Capital Ideas, a new web-based journal, premiers with an article discussing how civic intermediaries can alleviate poverty.
Downtown Revival Comes To The South
Southern cities discover the economic advantages of dynamic downtowns.
Finding Good Dirt
As buildable sites get harder to find and more expensive to develop, developers are becoming more creative and taking greater risks.
The Economic Case For New Urbanism
Executives are recognizing that the talent pool is richest in places that are livable, diverse, and have high concentrations of ammenities.
Nation's Most Racially Segregated Cities
Most of the nation's cities are still racially segregated.
The Citizen Planner's Fix-It Manual
This excerpted chapter is from a "fix-it manual" for citizen planners working on improving their towns or neighborhoods.
Consolidation In The Apartment Industry
How concentrated has the multifamily housing industry become?
Livability For The Elderly
Not much attention has been paid to how to make environments livable for older Americans. AARP aims to change that.
Bush Postpones Forest Rules Again
The Bush administration puts off a decision on Clinton administration rules to protect a third of national forests from development.
Midwestern Apartment Markets
The recent experiences of Midwestern apartment markets offer some lessons for investment strategies nationwide.
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
