Social / Demographics
New Urbanists Turned Jacobs' Vision Into 'Superficial Formula'
New Urbanists have damaged Jane Jacobs' legacy writes Nicolai Ouroussoff.
San Fernando Valley Residents Rally Against Adult Film Industry
Residents on a quiet San Fernando Valley cul-de-sac get some unexpected visitors on Easter Sunday, raising questions about permitting, production, and power under the law.
Inmates In The Garden: Feeding Philadelphia's Hungry
An unlikely partnership between community gardeners and local prison inmates will help feed the over one fifth of the city living below the poverty line.
A Housing Alternative To Living In Quezon City's 7-Story Garbage Dump
Bryan Finoki tackles the spatial and socio-economic problems of shantytowns, focusing on recent tragedies in the Philippines. (Includes photos.)
How Jane Jacobs Challenged 'Olympian' Planners
Jane Jacobs had no college degree in architecture or urban planning. How did she defiantly challenge influential figures such as urban-renewal "czar" Robert Moses?
Best Places To Retire Near Cities
Charles Longino, a professor of gerontology, identifies the best retiree locales that are close to major metropolitan areas by using FBI and U.S. Justice Department crime statistics and housing costs.
Designing Cities With Latinos In Mind
The Latino Urban Forum embraces, and adapts, the ideals of New Urbanism to prescribe an updated urban vision -- of walkable streets, healthy neighborhoods, and vibrant informal street life -- for Los Angeles' new urban majority.
Special Issue Of 'Children, Youth And Environments' Promotes Child Mobility
Special issue of CYE seeks to increase children's freedom of movement. Topics include fostering environmentalism, school buses, gender differences in walking to school, and "reclaiming the street" for children [PDFs available].
How L.A. Reduced Immigration
Why did the percentage of immigrants living in Los Angeles decrease from 1980 to 2000, while numbers across the United States rose dramatically?
Homeless On Doorstep Of Posh Neighborhood
The City of Philadelphia plans to partner with a church to construct a shelter near the well-off Chestnut Hill neighborhood. Current residents aren't having it.
Housing Costs Drive Migrants From Boston And San Francisco
Recently released Census data show that domestic migrants are fleeing the high housing costs of America's coasts in favor of more affordable environs. Will the tech regions start running out of techies?
Gentrification And Sprawl Describe U.S. Domestic Migration Pattern
Is the donut effect spreading to the suburbs? First it was older cities that lost population to their suburbs, but that flight now has spread to their greater metro areas. Paradoxically, gentrification occurs as the wealthy return to the cities.
New York City Faces Immense Growth
How can the city learn from other major metropolises like Chicago and Los Angeles to develop a viable growth strategy for the 21st century?
'California: America's High-Stakes Experiment'
A new book argues that one way to save the state, once proud of its preeminent physical and social infrastructure, is through help from recent immigrants.
Rebirth Of The Flaneur
The art of the flaneur -- wandering aimlessly around the city, observing its daily rhythms -- has been revived by photobloggers.
Segregating New Neighborhoods By Political Values
In suburban Orange County, California, Ladera Ranch is a thriving planned community of more than 16,000 people, where various villages are not customized to practical needs, but to what marketers call different "values subcultures".
Dallas Protests Reveal Relative Acceptance Of Immigration
The peaceful marches in Dallas have displayed a community in support of immigrant rights, in opposition to some "out of touch" pundits and politicians on the east coast.
College Grads Flocking To Urban America
In a trend that would make Richard Florida proud, well-educated college graduates are flocking to big cities in increasing numbers, drawn by good jobs, cultural amenities and an "urban" lifestyle.
The 'Great Chelsea Nightclub Massacre'
Why did police raid six nightclubs in Manhattan on the night of March 31?
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.
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Mpact (formerly Rail~Volution)
Great Falls Development Authority, Inc.
HUDs Office of Policy Development and Research
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