United States
Big Box Stores Adopting Unusual Urban Formats
One chain increasingly tailors its stores to the urban market by including two levels, escalators, and structured parking.
Sprawl vs. Judaism
Michael Lewyn explains how sprawl reduces Jewish observance and conflicts with Jewish views of social justice, and points out that Jewish law has historically allowed extensive land use regulation.
Brownfields Developments Becoming More Popular
As developable property becomes ever more scarce, brownfields are beginning to look like a bargain.
Classicists at the Gates
Both classicist architects and some of their more pragmatic Chicago counterparts have a weakness for returning to the past, but their approaches couldn't be more different.
School Choice And Sprawl
As urban schools decline, those who can afford it head for ever-expanding, land-consuming 'burbs. The flight of the affluent drains urban schools of funding. We can break the cycle, says Dan Akst.
States Take On Feds Over Environment
State-led lawsuits and environmental initiatives are changing the face of US environmental regulation.
Trapped By Gridlock
As Americans are forced to spend more time commuting, the question must be asked 'what have highways done to improve quality of life?'
The Future Of Mega-Catastrophes In The U.S.
Can the United States expect a future filled with disasters on the order of Katrinas and Ritas? 'Are we prepared to lose a major city every year?'
Wi-Fi For All?
Google's interest in providing wi-fi for San Francisco is good news for municipal wireless.
The End Of McMansions?
The cost of maintaining and furnishing large houses, cost of fuel, interest rates, and land prices may be causing a "downsizing" trend in house sizes across the nation.
Market Forces Boost Alternate Energy
After Hurricane Katrina, energy conservation and renewable energy make a comeback.
Should You Learn To Love Sprawl?
A high-powered group of acadedmics and critics join together to consider the positive aspects of sprawl. Are new exurban development getting better?
Next Generation Traffic Simulation
Traffic simulation models offer significant benefits, but after 35 years of development and application, they still have shortcomings. A new study seeks to fill in the gaps.
Why High Gas Prices Will Not Change Driving Habits
Austan Goolsbee explains why a short-term increase in fuel prices is unlikely to change Americans' driving habits.
EPA Asking Companies To Police Themselves
The Environmental Protection Agency wants to reduce the regulatory burden on companies by allowing smaller polluters to report less frequently. Environmentalists are skeptical.
A Profile Of Women In Transportation
In recent years, women have comprised an average of roughly 40 percent of the new transportation graduate students, both master's and Ph.D. candidates. Berkeley ITS profiles several of its recent graduates.
Environmental Organizations Seek To Bolster Waning Superfund Program
Louis Gibbs and other environmental activists seek to reinstate "polluter pays" fees in order to help defray the burden on individual taxpayers.
The Death, Now Afterlife, Of Environmentalism
John Meyer follws up on the 'death of environmentalism' by offering 'the afterlife of environmentalism'.
What Makes A City Resilient?
What gives a city the ability to re-group and come back from natural disaster and human tragedies stronger than before?
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
