United States
America At Odds With Its Land?
An Indian columnist offers his perspective on California's fires and city-slicking deer.
Planetizen Special Report: ASLA 2003, New Orleans
Landscape architects gather in New Orleans to participate in the 2003 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA).
Automobile Manufacturers Marketing To Preschools
It's never too early to market the automobile-centric lifestyle.
Cities Facing Major Wastewater Challenges
Cities across the nation are collectively facing hundreds of billions of dollars in desperately needed repairs and upgrades to storm and wastewater systems.
China's Three Gorges Dam
The massive engineering project has permanently altered the country's landscape while forcing 700,000 people to relocate.
Dublin: Public Housing Project To Be Demolished
Many question the motives behind plans to raze Ireland's most infamous housing project.
How Transportation Changed America
Travel back in time and experience how transportation shaped America in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History huge new exhibit: "America on the Move."
Presidential Candidate on Importance of Urban Planning
Presidential candidate Dennis J. Kucinich discusses the importance of planning in addressing urban sprawl.
Architects Are Responsible For Much Global Warming
A veteran of green design has studied global warming and sees its cause -- and possible solution -- coming from the same unlikely source: architects.
Aucklanders Rebel Against Growth Strategy
Local opposition to poorly designed apartments threatens the "compact city" growth strategy for Auckland region.
Top 25 Safest Cars
Consumer Reports lists the safest cars.
New Urbanism Does Not Promote Crime
A recent report linking New Urbanism to increased crime portrays New Urbanism inaccurately, and implies a grim world in which crime prevention is our top planning priority.
The World's Largest Park
A proposal for a vast nature park in America's Great Plains could help revive economies in 10 states.
'The Urban Justifying Encroachments Theory'
An Indian politician supports the special interest group with the biggest influence on Mumbai street life -- hawkers.
Remediating Cell Phones
New cell phone laws are raising concerns over potential environmental hazards.
A Modernist City, Frozen In Time
A treasure of early 20th century rationalist design lies in Asmara, the capital of Eritrea.
Prices And Location
Do government housing projects undermine economic development efforts?
Endangered Species Act Leads To Disaster
Fifteen years of the Endangered Species Act has caused a species disaster in California's fires.
Traffic Taking Its Toll
Charging drivers to enter downtown London has significantly reduced traffic congestion, and the system may be expanded.
Sensationalist 'Lara Croft' Architecture Damages Cities
Deyan Sudjic laments the popularity of "icon" architecture such as the works for Frank Gehry and Santiago Calatrava but suggests that the style is about to fade away.
Pagination
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