Landscape Architecture
World's Fastest Growing City - A Photo Essay
Dubai is leading the pace as one of the world's fastest growing cities.
Brownfields to Art Parks
When is a brownfield not a brownfield? When it's transformed by art works, as in two U.S. cities.
Weighing The Costs And Benefits Of Rooftop Gardens
An upcoming Los Angeles symposium will focus on greening the city's rooftops and overcoming the high implementation costs that have kept gardens off the roofs of skyscrapers.
The Slippery Slope Of Public Space Memorials
Fearing that one memorial may lead to many more in the wake of the Big Dig, Boston Mayor Thomas Menino is not supporting the placement of an Armenian-American memorial on the yet to be completed Rose Kennedy Greenway.
Memphis Brings in Garvin to Get Plans Moving for Park
Memphis's 4500-acre Shelby Farms Park has languished for years. Now, local leaders are bringing in Yale professor Alex Garvin to try to bring the park up to its potential.
Celebrities Fight To Save Urban Farm From Development
When fundraising fails to save farm formerly leased to the Los Angeles Food Bank, Joan Baez sings in a tree and Darryl Hannah plays guitar in a tent.
Seattle's 100-Year Plan For A Green, Livable Future
An open space preservation coalition led a visioning exercise for the future of Seattle, to "design Seattle's green network for the next century".
Life In The Middle Of The Freeway
In the hostile median of Los Angeles' Santa Monica Freeway, a diverse landscape thrives against all odds.
Big Sunday: A Community Improvement Project
A civic improvement project in Southern California is attracting volunteers and powerful supporters.
Everyday Urbanism: Rescuing 'Orphan Spaces'
Small efforts, rather than grand gestures, can help a community improve the city in tiny increments.
Designing For Security: Post 9/11 Architecture and Planning
How has American architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning responded to the need to design secure public spaces and buildings in the post-9/11 era?
Understanding Landscape Architecture
Columnists Roger K. Lewis looks at the profession of landscape architecture today.
The New Advertising: Satellite Graffiti
In an era of ever increasing satellite map imagery and tools like Google Maps to view them, savvy advertisers are now creating 'ground ads' large enough to show up on satellite map images. Think: crop circle advertising.
What Do Landscape Architects Do?
Why don't more people know about the profession of landscape architecture?
Jane Jacobs: Urban Theorist and Community Activist
Renowned urban theorist Jane Jacobs was also an energetic community activist. (Includes links to obituaries published by several news sources.)
Critics Warn Federal Plan Endangers National Monuments Land
Bureau of Land Management plan would permit more mining, grazin, and recreation use in the Arizona Strip -- home of two national monuments.
Vanity Fair Goes Green
May issue highlights the environmental crisis and people across a variety of professions committed to education and change.
17 Projects Win New Urbanism Awards
Congress for the New Urbanism honors 17 diverse projects in affordable housing, transit-oriented development, high-density infill plans, wilderness preservation, and freeway-taming strategies, with the 2006 Charter Awards.
Proposal To Tear Down Obsolete Viaduct Gains Momentum
While options for what to do with Seattle's obsolete waterfront Alaskan Way Viaduct may seem limited, another plan has been thrown into the mix.
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
