Housing
Hollywood Housing Renewal On The Move
Historical apartment complexes are in demand in Hollywood. Vintage buildings are being bought and restored.
Seedy Chic In Pasadena, California
Old Pasadena has a successful shopping and entertainment district, and it includes pawn, porn and tattoo shops.
Giving The Suburb A Sense Of Town
A bedroom community attempts to create sense of place.
Redesigning California: No Good Paradigm
California does not have enough housing, electricity, water, schools or freeways. And people keep coming. What should we do?
A Call For Sound Coastal Planning
At a conference on coastal growth sponsored by the Georgia Conservancy and other environmental groups, Edward T.McMahon, director of land use programs for The Conservation Fund called for careful growth control along Georgia's coastline.
High-density Housing Targets City Sprawl
San Jose, CA, will reserve underused land for new apartments instead developing on vacant land. The decision is being praised for addressing the housing shortage while controlling sprawl.
FEMA Flood Maps Online
Businesses and consumers can now directly order floodmaps online through FEMA.
FHA Sale Of Mortgage Loans Yields $94 Million
The Federal Housing Administration's mortgage sales programrecently reached a milestone when it completed the Multifamily and Healthcare Loan Sale.
Why Phoenix Is Arizona's 'Valley Of The Sun'
With good infrastructure and and a solid business community, Phoenix has become Arizona's high-tech hotspot.
S.F. Cries No More Lofts!
The Board of Supervisors approved a six-month ban on the construction of live-work lofts in the city, and also imposed new rules on commercial developers to pay for affordable housing.
Growth Control Challenged In Court
California's City of Tracy is facing a lawsuit from a developer claiming that its recent growth control measure goes too far.
Anti-Sprawl Arsons In Arizona
Luxury homes are being built at the edge of the desert near Scottsdale. Anti-sprawl activists are burning them.
Eco-Arson
Luxury homes in Phoenix are the latest targets by an eco-terrorism group.
Ideas For Limiting Growth
Leaders from the San Diego Association of Governments dicussed proposals for coping with the region's growth.
US' Unaffordable Housing Crisis
The number of Americans that pay more than half of their income towards rent increased 38% in one year. Is this a crisis?
The Best New Hotel In Las Vegas?
Las Vegas real estate mogul pronounces his new hotel "the single most wonderful resort in the history of Las Vegas."
Disney's Sanitized Urban California Experiment
Disney's experiment in urban living has an unusual feature for California: a pedestrian downtown.
Retail Behemoths Litter Suburban Landscape
When huge discount stores fail, towns are left with acres of useless graffiti-strewn space and the prospect of spending millions in demolition costs.
Tenants Uprooted As Rents Rise in Montreal
Exploding real estate values and gentrification are changing the face of neighborhoods in Montreal, Canada.
Columbus Neighborhood Follows Smart Growth Path
In Columbus, OH, an urban neighborhood takes a "smart growth" approach to draw up redevelopment plans. Residents think the redevelopment will enhance their property.
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
