United States

Children's Health And Transportation

Evidence continues to grow that our transportation choices are affecting our health.

January 20, 2004 - National Center For Bicycling And Walking

Revitalizing Toronto's Little India

Neighbourhood BIA Survives Suburban Flight and SARS Panic

January 19, 2004 - The Toronto Star

Free Smart Growth Policy Primer

A 120-page primer offers techniques for implementing ten smart growth principles.

January 19, 2004 - ICMA Bookstore

U.K. Consulting Firms Has 400 Openings

Consultant Atkins is looking to hire 400 professional staff such as engineers and architects for its UK businesses in 2004.

January 18, 2004 - Building

Are Trails And High Speed Rail Compatible?

Multiuse trails located adjacent to active rail lines, have become increasingly common in the United States.

January 18, 2004 - National Center For Bicycling And Walking

Economic Lessons For American Cities

Pennsylvania and California -- one old economy, one new economy. But both are seriously threatened by the dramatic changes taking place in the American economy.

January 18, 2004 - Smart City

National Survey Of Feelings

A quarterly survey objectively measures how Australian’s feel about a range of personal and national issues. Those results have been grouped to produce a ranking of capital cities.

January 18, 2004 - Sunday Times

Preserve, Re-use Or Tear Down That Old Country Barn?

The Barn Saver, a business started by John High, salvages entire barns or their component parts for reconstruction on other sites or re-use in homes, furniture and crafts.

January 17, 2004 - The New York Times

Can The 'Creative Class' Drive An Urban Renewal?

Is innovation the only important factor in a successful urban strategy?

January 16, 2004 - Joel Kotkin

How The Interstate Highway System Changed Business

Fortune Magazine examines how the Interstate Highway System reshaped the Fortune 500 and the economy.

January 16, 2004 - Fortune

Labor Supply And The 'Brain Drain'

A new analysis of the location and migration patterns of younger and older workers, especially those with college degrees, counters some commonly held notions about "brain drain" and examines policies to address the impacts of these locat

January 16, 2004 - The Brookings Institution

Wireless Street Lamps For Traffic Monitoring

A UK effort to provide wireless Internet access may end up being used to control traffic.

January 16, 2004 - The Register

10 Most Endangered National Parks

A conservation group releases its annual list of the nations 10 most endangered national parks.

January 16, 2004 - The Miami Herald

Sprawl Makes Oregonians Fat

Portland's weekly magazine reports on the link between sprawl and obesity in Oregon.

January 16, 2004 - Willamette Week

How The Dutch Made Suburbia Cool

Cool meets canal in Ypenburg, the Netherlands.

January 16, 2004 - The New York Times

The World's Fastest Train

Next week China launches the world's fastest train, which uses magnetic levitation technology and runs at 430kph.

January 16, 2004 - The Guardian Unlimited

Does African-American Architecture Exist?

I decided to organize Black Boxes: Enigmas of Space and Race after a professor claimed that African-American architecture was an oxymoron.

January 16, 2004 - MetropolisMag.com

Kick-starting Edmonton's Downtown

Edmonton developer has ambitious dreams to open up the central core of the city's sprawling river valley to appropriate mixed used development.

January 15, 2004 - Edmonton Journal

Anti-Sprawl Strategies Good For Construction Jobs

Study finds that smart growth policies are good for construction jobs.

January 15, 2004 - Good Jobs First

A Truck-sized Loophole

Will all sedans eventually morph into light trucks and SUVs?

January 15, 2004 - The New York Times

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.

Top Books

An annual review of books related to planning.

Top Schools

The definitive ranking of graduate planning programs.

100 Most Influential Urbanists

The who's who of urbanism, according to Planetizen readers.

Urban Planning Creators You Should Know

A short list of voices on social, video, and podcasting platforms.