Illinois
New Chicago Dorm Elevates Student Housing
Residence hall blends modernity, ammenities, site appropriateness at the Illinois Institute of Technology
Historic Preservation Efforts For Mail Order Homes
Joliet, IL is redefining historic preservation by pioneering efforts to preserve mail order homes.
Bridging Good Design With City Needs
Chicago's design competition for bridge work along its shoreline turns out a diversity of designs and designers.
Riverfront Revival
Communities, nationwide, are spending millions to revitalize riverfront and lakefront properties.
Morphing Of Lifestyle And Power Retail
The sprawling 420,000-square-foot shopping destination known as Geneva Commons is the latest prototype of the lifestyle center.
Efforts Near Stadium Not A Home Run
The U.S. Cellular Field in Chicago hopes to benefit from the redevelopment efforts occuring in its vicinity.
Transportation Funds Siphoned Off To Reduce State Deficit
Transportation officials in Illinois struggle to find ways to deal with the siphoning off millions of state transportation funds.
Chicago's Last Frontier
Environmental and industrial interests work together for the revitalization of the former Steel Belt of Chicago.
Cold Stone To Hard Rock
Hard Rock stakes its first urban claim in the home city of the blues.
Milwaukee Mayor Norquist To Be New CNU Director
Milwaukee Mayor John O. Norquist will become president and chief executive officer of the Congress for The New Urbanism.
Chicago's $1.5 Billion Rail Plan
Chicago makes a massive investment in its aging freight rail transportation infrastructure.
Unclogging Chicago's Rail Congestion
A $1.5 billion plan aims to rejuvenate the Chicago area's overloaded and outdated freight rail system which causes traffic backups at hundreds of railroad crossings.
Setting East St. Louis On The Right Track
Kenneth Reardon recounts the decade-long successful effort to revitalize the once-devestated East St. Louis community.
Benefits of Rain Gardens and Xeriscapes
Rain gardens and xeriscapes help conserve water and cut costs.
Sensuality And Architecture
It might not be a coincidence that a lot of our associations with Chicago's best architecture have to do with sensuality and sex.
Kunstler Calls Suburbs A 'Cartoon'
Ugly architecture, misuse of trees, and bad zoning are some of the mistakes found in America's suburbs says nationally known author James Howard Kunstler. [Link updated.]
Rail Saves Village Of Elwood, Illinois
The Village of Elwood turns a faltering economy into what could become one of the richest transportation hub communities in the Midwest.
Chicago's Traffic Gets Worse
Predictions of traffic fridlock in Chicago are bad, but not as bad as expected.
Destruction Of Historic Landmarks In Chicago
A Chicago Tribune investigation finds 500 more potential landmarks razed in Chicago's neighborhoods.
Higher Parking Requirements Could Turn Chicago Into L.A.
A coalition of transportation, environmental, and housing advocates in Chicago released a study disputing a recommendation to increase off-street parking requirements.
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
