United States
America's Sinking Infrastructure
Sewer and water pipes across the nation are breaking -- creating a record number of sinkholes.
Friday Funny: Metropopular -- The Nation's Most Popular City
Metropopular is an animated short film from 2001 about what the cities of America would say to one another if they could talk. The film was apparently produced by Dreamworks.
Faux-Urban Malls Not So Bad After All?
The new generation of malls like Santana Row in San Jose, which critics accuse of being 'artificial', may indeed be serving a valuable role associated with good urbanism -- public gathering space.
Want Less Traffic? Price Your Parking Right
UCLA Professor Donald Shoup demonstrates that by pricing curb parking too low, cities are contributing to traffic and pollution and losing out on revenue.
Can Big Box Retail Ever Be Sustainable?
Even with its environmental-friendly pledges, as long as customers keep driving to visit its massive stores, Wal-mart isn't likely to become 'green'.
Homeless? No Soup For You!
Some cities are imposing restrictions on organizations that feed the homeless.
The Growing Urban Agriculture Movement
Food grown in neighborhood and backyard farms is catching on with urban residents who are looking for healthy, fresh, locally grown food.
Bringing Them Home, To Homelessness
Tens of thousands of veterans are suffering from mental illness and homelessness, and as more soldiers return from Iraq those numbers are expected to grow.
Green-Collar Jobs Key to Nation's Economic & Ecological Health
Van Jones wants to make sure working-class and minority Americans can participate and benefit from a transition to a clean-energy economy.
Bush Administration Puts Money Behind Implementing Congestion Pricing
In one of the clearest directives to states yet, an FHWA official stated publicly that they want to award money to highway departments to actually implement -- not simply study -- congestion pricing.
Barriers To Planning: Lessons From Katrina
Evacuating people after Hurricane Katrina revealed chronic shortcomings of local and regional evacuation planning. The barriers that hindered efforts in New Orleans apply not only to evacuation planning, but to planning in general.
Armchair Architects Play Favorites With Buildings
The results are in and tongues are still wagging -- about buildings that Americans both love and hate. The AIA released the winners and losers of its survey to discover America's favorite architecture.
Suburbs Battle Blight Left By Foreclosures
Attempting to ward off a panic in the real estate market, cities in Ohio, Georgia, Illinois, and elsewhere are tapping into their coffers to eradicate foreclosure-related blight.
Half Of All Americans Believe Current Housing Policies Misguided
A recent Zogby America poll shows that a large and increasing number of Americans view affordable housing as a major issue, and are looking to government to actively address the problem.
African Americans Among First Victims Of Subprime Meltdown
The aggressive promotion of risky sub-prime mortgages in neighborhoods largely populated by African Americans is leading to geographic concentrations of foreclosures.
Talking With The Parking Evangelist: An Interview With Donald Shoup
UCLA Professor and author of The High Cost of Free Parking visits New York City to preach the gospel of sound parking pricing policies.
Making TOD Work: An Interview With Nathan Cherry
One of the designers behind Mockingbird Station in Dallas, Texas, one of the first TODs in the country, talks about the recipe for a successful transit-oriented development.
Earth To Planners: Americans Want Roads, Not Transit
The current strategy of encouraging traffic congestion and focusing on transit doesn't align with the majority of American's preferences. Instead of continuing to follow failed policy, planners should start using new solutions to increase capacity.
The Growing Interest In Universal Design
Leaders of the Universal Design movement call for a built environment that works for all members of society -- young, old, able-bodied or disabled -- an increasingly important issue as the population ages.
Is Chicago The New 'Green' American City?
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, whose city has typically been recognized for its environmental leadership, recently visited Chicago to observe the pioneering work of Mayor Daley in implementing green building principles and gather new ideas.
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
