Land Use
Small Oregon Town Cuts UGB Acreage
The city planning commission in the Southern Oregon town of Jacksonville recently passed a motion to reduce the acreage of a proposed urban growth boundary to more accurately reflect the town's population growth trends.
Miami Beach Struggles With The Cost Of Parking
To compensate for the rising cost of providing parking structures, the city is proposing to hike its impact fee to $35,000 per space.
Will Florida's Growth Management Controls Encourage Sprawl?
Home builders in Florida say that the state's plan to make developers pay for new infrastructure will promote development on cheap land away from cities.
China's Cities Told To Guard Against Sprawl
The country's leaders warn against the environmental problems that urban sprawl patterns generate, and call for compact urban development.
Farmers Use Easements To Protect Land
Housing developments are threatening centuries-old agricultural land in Western North Carolina, but farmers are fighting off developers with the help of conservation easements.
'Self-Inflicted' UK Flooding Could Be Planners' Fault
Leading British scientists are warning the country that forecasted high tides could flood many low-lying areas. They caution that the coming devastation could have been prevented by better floodplain planning and more environmental considerations.
Bicycles No Longer Welcomed In China's Cities
China's pell-mell race towards modernization reduces reliance on bicycle for transportation.
Denver's New Rail Line Is Successful At Attracting Development
As renters increasingly value access to transit, more and more new apartment and mixed-use developments are springing up around the city's new light rail stations.
Upstate New York Towns Slow Down Growth Of Wind Farms
Commercial wind farms are to many small towns in rural, upstate NY what the Cape Wind proposal is to Cape Cod -- highly controversial. Moratoriums play key role in developing land use regulations to quell citizen opposition.
Suburbs Are Making Canadians Fatter
A new study in Canada provides additional evidence linking the obesity epidemic in North America with suburban sprawl.
Questions About Wetlands Remain After Court Ruling
A split decision from the United States Supreme Court has left unanswered questions about the definition of a wetland.
An Urban Bill Of Rights For Berkeley
This column from The Berkeley Daily Planet sees cultural values being rapidly depleted in favor of quick developments and short-term profits. To remind planners and citizens what could be, an 'Urban Bill of Rights' has been written.
Mixing It Up
Planned communities that blend residential, retail, and recreational uses are becoming a popular type of development.
The Real Cost Of Large Lot Living
What happens when the high cost of housing prices teachers and police officers out of the communities where they work?
Doctor Blames Health Problems On Developers
Where people live has been shown to relate directly to how much they exercise, as well as to excessive child obesity and the increasing incidence of diabetes. Real estate developers are being held to blame for creating auto-reliant, unhealthy towns.
A Green Grassy Lawn: Love It Or Leave It?
Researchers at Arizona State University investigate landscape design and human-landscape interaction.
Empty Desert Develops To House 200,000
A 67-square mile piece of empty desert in Nevada will soon explode into one of the state's biggest cities, housing more than 200,000. Senator Harry Reid pulled various strings over the last four years to obtain approval for the development.
NIMBY Meets Maxwell Smart
Tips on how to keep projects from getting 86'd by getting smarter than Maxwell Smart.
Sneaky Campaign To Privatize Nationally Owned Land
Activist and singer-songwriter Carole King urges Americans to oppose bills that give away public land for private development.
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
