Housing
Satellite City Should Be Sustainable
Brian Schmidt criticizes San Jose's plan to build a satellite city.
Who Should Pay For The Bay Bridge?
As construction costs increase to $5 billion to rebuild the quake-damaged Bay Bridge, should all of California chip in?
Lifestyle Focus: Every Force Evolves A Center
As the suburbs have developed into new exurban modes, there remains nostalgia for the old town-center grid. Lifestyle centers seem to be an expression of that sentiment.
L.A. Selects N.Y. Developer For Downtown Centerpiece
The Related Cos. of New York-based has been selected to create the $1.2-billion centerpiece on Grand Ave. in downtown L.A.
When Schools Can't Keep Up With Development
Atlanta is spending $543 million for new school construction -- and still not keeping up with its sprawling subdivisions.
Developing Workforce Housing In Los Angeles
Livable Places has developed a brief paper that de-mystifies the current dynamics of the housing market in Los Angeles.
The Dangerous Developer
The Los Angeles Times profiles the controversial and litigious real estate developer Alan Casden.
Baby Boomers Eye Retirement Communities
About a quarter of baby boomers now between 40 and 45 are thinking about buying a home in a senior community.
Anatomy Of A Dallas Development
A blighted area of downtown Dallas is being transformed -- inch by dogged inch -- into an upscale urban neighborhood by Dallas-based Hillwood Development.
The Shape Of The Curve
Not all cities lost middle-class households in past 20 years.
Return Of The Downtown
In a trend that is defying post-9/11 predictions American downtowns continue to grow.
Beyond Legislating Integration
How to get race and class residential integration in the United States.
Preservation Versus Property Rights
Tel Aviv planning commission grapples with issues of preservation, economic development, and private property rights.
Ethnic Change Energizes Redevelopment In L.A. Suburb
San Gabriel's emergence as an Asian shopping and cultural hub has created opportunity for denser development and other urban improvements.
Are Mobile Homes The Future Of Affordable Housing?
Amidst stigma and displacement, mobile homes offer new hope for affordable housing emerges.
Mansionization: Inevitable Or Avoidable?
Developers say gentrification is part of a neighborhood's evolution. Planners are concerned about the trends impact on an areas aesthetic, social and historical context.
Top 10 Issues For Real Estate Capital Markets
A new report by Deloitte's development practice highlights key issues facing the real estate industry.
Smart-growth Controversy in Albuquerque
Albuquerque Tribune columnist Jeffry Gardner rants about Smart-growth efforts in Albuquerque, calling them misguided -- especially in the context of housing affordability.
Small Towns With Creative Strategies
By adopting creative strategies, small towns revitalize spaces left behind by empty big boxes.
UCLA's Smart Growth Conference Revolution Or Hot Air?
Dan Rosenfeld pins down the ubiquitous yet evasive term, smart growth and argues that UCLA Extension's Smart Growth Conference has advanced the smart growth cause among the development community..
Urban Design for Planners 1: Software Tools
This six-course series explores essential urban design concepts using open source software and equips planners with the tools they need to participate fully in the urban design process.
Planning for Universal Design
Learn the tools for implementing Universal Design in planning regulations.
EMC Planning Group, Inc.
Planetizen
Planetizen
Mpact (formerly Rail~Volution)
Great Falls Development Authority, Inc.
HUDs Office of Policy Development and Research
NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
