Urban Development

In a post from the new Plan.Place blog, the author explores the city with a two-year-old as his guide and offers reflections on viewing the urban landscape anew--from an elevation of 34 inches and with a renewed sense of wonder.

February 5, 2015 - Plan.Place

The developers of a high profile, $421 million development in Cleveland are requesting a special tax district that could raise $30 million over three decades.

February 4, 2015 - Cleveland.com

New York may be the most famous example of the parks becoming the most conspicuous signifiers of neighborhoods for the haves, versus the have-nots, but Inga Saffron hopes that cities everywhere can find ways to even the playing fields.

February 4, 2015 - The New Republic

San Francisco Mayor Ed lee is so far running unopposed for re-election next Fall, which means that voters won't be offered a chance for a referendum on his support for the tech industry.

February 4, 2015 - San Francisco

Journalist's Resource provides a one-stop shop for research on the subject of policies to regenerate urban areas once in decline.

February 4, 2015 - Journalist's Resource

An Atlanta suburb is moving forward with a plan to create a gaming report, unprecedented in the state, to invigorate a languishing part of town.

February 3, 2015 - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

After announcing its Georgetown 2028 Plan last year, the Georgetown Business Improvement District is continuing its ambitious efforts to bring new facilities and amenities online in Georgetown.

February 3, 2015 - The Washington Post

The remodeled Union Station in Denver led the national transit headlines in 2014, but that is just the centerpiece of a 120-mile network of transit lines approved ten years ago and only just beginning to come online.

February 2, 2015 - The Denver Post

Developers are persona no grata in a high-profile City Council election in Los Angeles. Is it a case of NIMBYs gone wild or the empowerment of neighborhood interests?

February 2, 2015 - Los Angeles Times

Mark Byrnes breaks down the math on this year's Super Bowl and finds the host city of Glendale, Arizona getting shortchanged.

February 1, 2015 - CityLab

Scott Beyer details the old real estate wisdom of "retail follows rooftops," especially as evidenced by cities like Cleveland in recent years.

February 1, 2015 - Governing

Big-name technology companies with retail stores, like Apple, Microsoft, and Tesla, have enabled many Class A malls to not just stay in business, but thrive. Record sales per square foot are flowing.

January 31, 2015 - The Wall Street Journal

What will it take for Las Vegas to fulfill its ambitions to become a hub of the tech industry?

January 30, 2015 - Las Vegas Sun

A guest column for Quartz reveals the "Starbucks Effect" on real estate values as well as the method to the coffee vendors success.

January 30, 2015 - Quartz

The New York City Department of Transportation is moving forward with a series of pedestrian and bike infrastructure improvements in a neighborhood built in the shadow of some of the city's most highest profile transportation infrastructure.

January 30, 2015 - StreetsBlog NYC

A guest column in the Dallas Morning News takes the Dallas political machine to task for delaying a new tree ordinance.

January 28, 2015 - The Dallas Morning News

A columnist in St. Paul makes an argument in favor of zoning variances as a driver of incremental growth and economic development.

January 28, 2015 - Star Tribune

Milwaukee Alderman Joe Dudzik's arguments in opposition to a proposed streetcar project have been heard before.

January 28, 2015 - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

A recent spate of articles pronounced the resurrection of the suburb, so CityLab laid the false dichotomies that drive such proclamations to rest.

January 28, 2015 - CityLab

Two proposals for library makeovers in Brooklyn tie into a larger narrative about development, and architecture, in New York City.

January 27, 2015 - New York Times