United States
The End Of The Affair
With the U.S. automobile industry falling into what appears to be permanent decline, Paul Harris muses on what it means for America's "love affair with the car" when its cars are built somewhere else.
Why We Need Suburbia
Suburban growth has kept our cities livable while they expand, and attempts to limit suburban growth ignore important historical trends, writes Joel Kotkin.
Linking Housing And Transportation To Define Housing Affordability
This brief describes a new information tool developed by the Urban Markets Initiative to quantify, for the first time, the impact of transportation costs on the affordability of housing choices.
The Latino New Urbanism
Latino new urbanism is quickly gaining popularity in California and Texas, the nation's two most populous states and the ones with the largest numbers of Hispanics.
White House Rejects Additional Katrina Relief Spending Plan
In order to avoid creating 'another bureaucracy', Bush does not support creation of a federal corporation to purchase and redevelop damaged homes.
It's Sprawl For Nothing
In an excerpt from her new book, 'The Place You Love Is Gone: Progress Took It Away', author Melissa Holbrook Pierson offers her lament for a sprawling nation.
What Car Buyers Want
Ford, GM, and Chrysler have been caught off guard and need to make products that consumers want.
The Emergence Of The CDC Network
Grassroots groups, developers, bankers and others are sharing knowledge and collaborating on campaigns to change state and local community development policies.
The Future Of Conservation
Tired of stalemate, weekend warriors, conservationists, and ranchers are starting to support compromise solutions in the West's land battles.
Gulf Coast Towns Consider New Urbanist Plans
Eleven towns are weighing the costs and benefits of recent plans tailored to each community, with the option to pick and choose among the various proposals.
Growth Politics Comes Of Age
Strategists take note as Virginia’s new governor tackles sprawl. Could "smart growth" tip the next presidential election?
EPA Releases Four New Smart Growth Publications
Topics include linking development, infrastructure, and drinking water policies; protection of water resources with higher-density development; and smart growth and stormwater management.
An Evaluation of Metropolitan Planning Organization Boards
Is there an inherent bias in the geographic and racial-ethnic patterns of Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) boards?
Master of His Own Eminent Domain?
A citizens' group, angered over the Supreme Court's recent controversial eminent domain decision, is seeking to use the new law to evict Supreme Court Justice David Souter from his own home.
Big Brother Eyeing America's Cities?
Local police departments are increasingly relying on federally-funded surveillance camera networks to pick up where local citizens and underfunded police left off -- keeping their 'eyes on the street'.
Ex-EPA Chiefs Warn Bush About Global Warming
Former chiefs of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) -- five Republicans and one Democrat -- criticise the Bush administration's response to global warming.
Duany Predicts Growing Demand For New Urbanism Experts
New Urbanism pioneer Andres Duany says the movement could change affordable housing and predict growing demand for experts.
Banks As Developers
Federal regulators have cleared two national banks to develop office and hotel properties -- actions long barred by the Treasury Department. What does this imply for the development environment?
Weakening Eminent Domain Could Undermine Redevelopment
Across the nation, developers and city officials warn that weakening eminent domain could undermine rehabilitation of cities.
Reinventing Conservation Easements
In recent decades conservation easements—promises to restrict land development—have become enormously popular, but now they are in trouble.
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
