United States
New HUD Regulations To Provide $2.4 Trillion For Affordable Housing
HUD announced newfederal regulations that require the nation's two largest housing finance companies to buy $2.4 trillionin mortgages during the next 10 years to provide affordable housing for about 28.1 million low- andmoderate-income families.
Gay Population Correlates With Tech Growth?
Respected author Joel Garreau looks at the correlation of homosexual population density to high-tech success.
Lease Security
For companies that use creative space, like internet companies, the only thing harder than finding a space is negotiating for it.
Finding A Planning Job
One planner's journey of finding a new job.
Why Cars Keep Beating Public Transit
Advances in public transit have yet to put a serious dent in American's desire to drive.
Five-Point Plan To Reinvest In Cities
A five-point plan encourages city reinvestment and a nationwide poll finds residents support tax dollars being spent to revitalize central cities.
Light Rail Comes Of Age
Cities that have built their reputations on sprawl and congestion have finally begun to hop on the light rail.
Gore Goes Green
Threatened by Nader's popularity, Vice President Gore emphasizes environment in stump speeches.
HUD Upgrades Neighborhood Watch/Early Warning System
The Neighborhood Watch Early Warning system is a web-based software application that helps HUD staff andlenders identify originating and sponsoring lenders, loan characteristics and geographic areas that have a highincidence of single family insured m
Report: World's Water Systems In Trouble
A report from the World Resources Institutewarns that the world's freshwater systems are sothreatened that they may have difficulty sustaining life, withincreasing water shortages for human use and the extinction of a varietyof freshwater species.
Homeownership Rate Highest In Nation's History
The percent of Americans who own their homes hit a record high 67.7 percent in the third quarterof 2000.
Mexican Farmers Protest Against Deforestation
In Mexico, the Organization fo Peasant Farmer Ecologists is fighting for the environment ...and their lives.
World's Fairs: Vehicles For Urban Improvement
With the right planning, a world’s fair can be a powerful agent for urban renewal.
Global Warming Theory Affirmed
UN-sponsored panel affirms human influence on global climate caused by the greenhouse effect and predicts continued temperature increase if release of greenhouse gases is not curtailed.
Congress Gets Failing Score On Environment
Congress criticized by conservation group for legislating through anti-environment riders, blocking efforts to protect public health regarding air and water pollution
Sprawl: Learn How To Deal With It
The Brookings Institute features a policy brief by Anthony Downs on how local cities can effectively deal with fast growth.
Gore Or Bush? Who Cares? Not Environmentalists
Environmentalists are targeting corporations instead.
Questions About Urban Parks?
In an innovative Q&A, Urban Parks Online invites questions about the growth, management, and issues involved in developing urban parks.
What a Difference A Museum Makes
Arts-related institutions currently draw more visitors downtown than do professional sports.
Housing Q&A With Presidential Candidates
The National Association of Home Builders presents a Housing Q&A with the presidential candidates.
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
