Illinois
The City That Works, Today
Chicago is using innovative ideas to encourage urban, sustainable development.
Chicago's Bold New Public Space
Photographs and links related to the opening of Chicago's New Millenium Park.
Starbucks Makes The Neighborhood
It's a neighborhood if it's got a Starbucks.
Chicago's Millenium Park Finally Opens
An interactive guide to Chicago's Millenium Park -- the city's "boldest outdoor cultural project in more than a century".
The 'New Face' Of Chicago: Millennium Park
Over budget and four years late, Chicago's stunning Millennium Park will become 'the new face' of the City.
Chicago's Uptown Upturn?
A new mixed-use project could revive a historic Chicago neighborhood.
Cabrini-Green Transforms Slowly
Columnist Mary Schmich of the Chicago Tribune shows a snapshot of Cabrini-Green as it undergoes its "transformation." She writes that in the end, its success depends on the people. The first of a series on Cabrini-Green.
Best City For Bicylcles
Bicycling Magazine picks Chicago as the best big cycling city in the United States.
Chicago Returns To Architectural Relevance
The new Millennium Park is the crown jewel in Mayor Richard Daley's bid to makeover the birthplace of the skyscraper through 'starchitects.'
Chicago Shows the World How Density is Done
Planners from all over the world 'drooled' over Chicago's density, mixed-use character and functional transit system, as the annual New Urbanist Conference convened this past weekend.
If You Tear It Down, Where Do They Go?
Residents of demolished public housing buildings often left to their own devices
A (Super)market Failure
Why are inner city residents paying more for groceries?
Political Wrangling Defeats Illinois Housing Bill
The Cook County Recorder of Deeds blocks a new $10 fee on real estate documents that would have subsidized rental assistance programs.
Sprawl Politics Traps Americans In Blandburbs
Joel Hirschhorn examines the power of the "sprawl lobby", and its impact on the American landscape.
Why Building 'Smart' Is Hard
There are a host of obstacles which, when taken together, render building smart growth projects both more difficult and less profitable than building conventional sprawl.
Rural Flight?
Not quite. However, hobby farms as an alternative to suburban lifestyles are catching on in Chicago.
Chicago's New Zoning Effort
Is Chicago's new zoning code too much change too fast, or just what the city needs?
Wal-Mart Changes Its Strategy
Wal-Mart experiments with a "grassroots approach" to garnering support for its expansion into urban areas.
Mapping Chicago's Green Infrastructure
A new project maps greenways in the Chicago region.
Want to Reduce Traffic Congestion, Pollution, and Obesity?
Bicycling is "transportation for a healthy planet."
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
