United States
Dirt Into Dollars
The Brookings Review takes a new approach to converting vacant land into valuable development.
E-Architecture: Less Aesthetics, More Ethics
Exhibition in Venice, Italy, explores new concepts of urban space, influenced by the Internet and evolving technologies.
Nothing Left to Lose
Only radical strategies can help America's most distressed cities.
The Market Power of Cities?
Before the mid-20th century no one would have thought to ask such a question. The market power of cities was manifest.
Toward a New Urban Agenda
The marginalization of urban policies is in part a response to the diminishing political influence of cities after decades of depopulation and suburban growth.
Idaho's Environmental Disaster
Just as a Superfund cleanup ended, the true extent of mining's legacy in northern Idaho is revealed -- 1,500 miles of the Coeur d'Alene River basin is contaminated.
Demand for Density?
Many social observers believe that the city is becoming obsolete, and that information technology has deprived urban density of its reason for existence.
Bad Lenders Beware
Statement by FHA Commissioner on court rulingupholding HUD's authority to terminate alender with high default rate.
Defining Sustainability
Is there a problem with sustainability? Why we are facing a need to change on a planetary scale, and what we must do to survive.
The New Urban Demographics
The familiar distinctions between central cities and suburbs are being complicated by new demographic trends which will have important effects on urban America.
The Three Laws of Growth
Demographic data support the three Laws of Growth, which are helpful in understanding the character of rapid suburbanization and successful policy responses.
Impacts of Supportive Housing
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has conducted an analysis of the impacts of supportive housing programs on neighborhood property values and crime rates.
$500,000 for Students in Low-Income Communities
To help low-income students improve their performance and reduce the high school drop-out rate, HUD announced grants intended for Empowerment Zone communities, Enterprise Communities and sites in or near public housing orHUD-assisted housing sites.
GAO Report Slams Land Exchange Programs
GAO finds land exchange programs are rife for abuse by developers and timber companies, and suggests that federal agencies discontinue the programs.
Home Builders Assn Markets Smart Growth?
The National National Association of Home Builders outrages opponents by co-opting Smart Growth concepts in their own advertising efforts.
Bridging the Digital Divide
Ideas2000, a nonpartisan research group, has issued a report outlining the "Digital Divide" problem and suggesting solutions for America's cities.
Is Yours a Wired City?
The Industry Standard lists the 50 most connected urban markets in the US, and 18 Metro Areas with more than 50% of people online.
A Writer and an Architect
A profile of Rem Koolhaas, the highly influential superarchitect who earned his popularity by writing aboutarchitecture.
Internet Growth Meets Smart Growth
Across the country rapid Internet growth is causing evictions, traffic, and other urban problems. The dot-com culture is discovering smart growth.
Public Housing Desegregation Report
HUD publishes its results on research into voluntarily entering into consent decrees on discriminatory housing practices instead of litigating.
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
