World
Global issues, U.N., etc.
Market Positioning For New Urbanist Communities
The Town Paper profiles Laurie Volk, an expert in determining the market position for new urbanist communities.
Latino Growth In Metropolitan America: New Locations
This paper identifies four types of Hispanic growth pattern in the 100 largest metro areas.
Book Review: Cradle To Cradle
Growth is necessary in nature. They key is pursuing the right kind of growth.
Making Downtown Voids Into Public Spaces
Does the existence of the "European City" depend on allowing it to be "Americanized?"
Transit-Oriented Development: Moving From Rhetoric To Reality
This paper proposes new reforms and strategies to help TOD projects overcome barriers and reach their full promise.
The Moon: An Alternate Energy Source?
Physicist David Criswell, director of the Institute for Space Systems Operations at the University of Houston, has proposed a system for collecting solar power on the moon and beaming it to Earth.
Diary Of A Planner: Welfare
In this second article of his "Diary of a planner" the Italian planner Bernardo Secchi talks about "Welfare"and reformist urban policies.
Kmart, the Big Box, and the Role of Planning in American Cities
Kmart's recent announcement will make communities cope with more vacant storefronts, and should prompt planners to rethink big box retail.
Alternate Power Sources: Blowin' In The Wind
A report by three industry associations finds that wind power is the "fastest-growing energy source" in the world.
Modernism: A Step Towards Enlightenment?
The events of September 11th have served as a vehicle to attack skyscrapers, urbanism and development in general. Yet, does 9/11 really change anything about planning?
Kunstler Compares Cities
In a streaming audio segment, James Howard Kunstler compares major world cities.
Top 10 Urban Planning Issues From 2001
What were the ten most popular planning issues and articles from 2001? Planetizen editors select the very best.
Best Sites For Alternative Energy
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) will conduct surveys to identify the best wind and solar energy sites in developing countries.
Book Review: Preserving Architectural History
Reviews of four books on architecture and historic preservation including "Why Architecture Matters: Lessons From Chicago" and "Preserving the World's Great Cities: The Destruction and Renewal of the Historic Metropolis."
Alternative Energy: Technology Is Ready, Business Is Not
The technology for renewable energy sources is ready for deployment but companies haven't figured out how to create a business based on the engineering advances.
Book Review: 'Why Architecture Matters'
Reviews of "Why Architecture Matters" by Blair Kamin and "Preserving the World's Great Cities," by Anthony Tung.
Europe's Urban Divide Looks To America
In the past, Europe was the model for the urban future. Today, European cities need to look to America for new models.
Natural Resource Wars
The Atlantic Monthly reviews Michael T. Klare's "Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict." Our future is the future of natural resources.
Population Growth In The 21st Century
A report by the Population Reference Bureau concludes that growth in industrialized nations has essentially stopped, and has shifted to the less developed countries of Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
Street-Level Thriller
Travis Hugh Culley's novel takes the reader on a breakneck journey through a big city's streets while making a case for sensible city and transportation planning.
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 Thousand Oaks
City of Wisconsin Rapids
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
The Architects Foundation
University of Cincinnati Online
Northern Illinois Transit Authority (NITA)
The Pocatello Development Authority
The Urban Renewal Agency of the City of Pocatello
