United States
Families Are Uprooting In Search Of The Perfect School
Changes in technology -- and many parents' obsessive search for the perfect school -- are enabling families to move further afield to access quality education.
Is Sustainability Here To Stay?
Thinking and acting green is all the rage these days, but commentator Neal Peirce ponders if it can ultimately be more than just a passing fad?
Home Prices Higher In 71 Metro Areas
Realtors' report shows double-digit increase in housing prices in 14 metro areas, despite national decrease; high values attributed to affordability, job growth.
Second Home Owners Learn To 'Think Small'
Either for temporary residence or as a second vacation home, small dwellings are becoming increasingly popular.
Unmanned Cars Ready To Navigate Traffic Within A Few Years?
The winners of last year's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) artificial intelligence road race claim that they'll have a car ready to navigate urban traffic in less than a year.
Top Eco-friendly Office Buildings
Companies are realizing that they can save money with green office buildings.
War Fatalities Hurt Small Town America
Small towns and rural areas hit by economic downturns have seen many of their young people enlist for lack of other opportunities -- and as a result they represent almost half of U.S. war fatalities in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Should Economic Development Efforts Be Place-Based or People-Based?
Randall Crane offers an introduction to the research literature around place-based versus people-based policies for economic development as he begins his research into systematic comparative assessments of the two policies.
Planning on Walking?
With positive effects on public health, safety, and environmental quality -- walkability has become the new buzz word in planning.
Urban Medicine: Public Health Through Planning
Former California State Health Officer Richard Jackson offers a prescription for a country suffering from obesity, diabetes, and poor fitness: design neighborhoods, schools, and buildings that promote incidental exercise.
Solving the Public Health Crisis with Smarter City Planning
At an alarming rate, American children are suffering from obesity and related afflictions. Despite all the money spent on health care, the solution to many public health problems lies not in medicine but in the fabric of cities.
Eminent Domain's 'Devastating' Impact On African-Americans
Study concludes that eminent domain has evolved into a tool for the 'rich and the powerful" to take from the 'poor and politically weak'.
Are Zillow's Estimates Of Home Prices Accurate?
How accurate is the popular website that offers free estimates of home values?
Painting Bush Green
How the White House is portraying President Bush as a longtime supporter of the efforts to combat global warming.
When Public Parks Go Private
Public parks across the nation are increasingly depending on private funding. So what's wrong with that?
Report Examines Open Space Conservation Plans
This report from the Environmental Law Institute examines the role and relative success of 28 open space protection and conservation efforts. It offers guidelines for creating land use plans that allow for development and conservation.
Tap Running Dry On Mortgage Refinancing
Higher interest rates, cooling housing markets, restrictive mortgages and more cautious banks are combining to choke off the home refinancing market. The current wave of mortgage defaults could be just the "tip of the iceberg."
States Ahead Of Federal Government In Ocean Protection
While states take the lead in planning for ocean protection, the U.S. federal government lags behind. This editorial from The Washington Post calls on the federal government to make like its states and commit to protecting the oceans.
Green Homeowners Turning To Earthen Floors
Dirt is the latest material being used in homes as environmentally conscious homeowners look to live more sustainability.
Congestion Pricing Programs Get Help From U.S. Federal Budget
President Bush wants to give $305 million to cities and states to come up with ways to charge drivers for traveling at peak traffic.
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.
KFH Group Inc.
Greater Baltimore Committee
Eagle County Government
The Architects Foundation
University of Cincinnati Online
The Pocatello Development Authority
The Urban Renewal Agency of the City of Pocatello
