United States
12 Steps To Breaking Oil Dependence
While President Bush admitted that the United States is addicted to oil, he offered few real remedies. To address this gap, Michael Brune of the Rainforest Action Network offers a '12-Step' energy program for America.
U.S. Oil Addiction: Research Isn't Enough
Ronal Brownstein urges the Bush administration to take bold steps to cure nation's oil addiction.
Environmentalists Say EPA Program Encourages Polluters
A coalition of environmentalists criticize the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency's voluntary Performance Track program.
'Censored' Story Threatens Ecosystem, Economy
A list of top 25 stories ignored by the mainstream media includes one about a new coal mining technique being used in the U.S. that involves dynamiting entire mountaintops.
Student Housing As Commodity
Aussie investment corporation ING's $100 million deal nets 90 percent of U. Conn's off-campus student housing.
NYT: Bush's Energy Proposals 'Woefully Insufficient'
Not only was President Bush's discussion of energy in the State of the Union address 'woefully insufficient,' according to the NYT his failure to respond to the related issue of climate change 'is a negligence from which the globe may never recover'.
U.S. Oil Addiction: What Bush Really Meant
Only one day after President Bush used the State of the Union address to promote alternative energy sources, his energy secretary and national economic adviser are backing away from the comments, saying, 'the president didn't mean it literally.'
New Orleans And The State Of The Union
In advance of President George W. Bush's State of the Union address, William Rivers Pitt looks at widespread poverty and the ruins of New Orleans to state, "the state of this union is not good."
Growth Threatens America's Coasts
In an eight-part series, Gannett compiles three months of analysis to expose the serious problems of unchecked growth along the country's shores, along with a host of counterproductive public policies.
The Tenants Movement And Housers
How the tenants movement of the 1970s and 1980s evolved into the housing and community development movement of today.
Bush: Technology Will Cure U.S. Oil Addiction
In his state of the union address, President Bush says the U.S. is "addicted to oil" and alternate energy source will break its dependence.
Integrating Sustainability into Transportation Planning
A TRB report explores how sustainability objectives can be introduced into the planning process for surface transportation facilities and operations.
Innovative Urban Ideas Abound On Gulf Coast
Neal Peirce reviews the flurry of rebuilding ideas taking shape in Katrina-ravaged areas.
New-Market Tax Credits Spur Commercial Growth
Like the low-income tax credit before it, new-market credits are proving essential to the revitalization of American businesses, investing over eight billion dollars to date in low-income areas.
War On The Poor
From pawnshops to check cashers and rent-to-own stores, usurious companies are exploiting the nation's poor, creating a lucrative 'fringe economy' in the process.
The End Of The Affair
With the U.S. automobile industry falling into what appears to be permanent decline, Paul Harris muses on what it means for America's "love affair with the car" when its cars are built somewhere else.
Why We Need Suburbia
Suburban growth has kept our cities livable while they expand, and attempts to limit suburban growth ignore important historical trends, writes Joel Kotkin.
Linking Housing And Transportation To Define Housing Affordability
This brief describes a new information tool developed by the Urban Markets Initiative to quantify, for the first time, the impact of transportation costs on the affordability of housing choices.
The Latino New Urbanism
Latino new urbanism is quickly gaining popularity in California and Texas, the nation's two most populous states and the ones with the largest numbers of Hispanics.
White House Rejects Additional Katrina Relief Spending Plan
In order to avoid creating 'another bureaucracy', Bush does not support creation of a federal corporation to purchase and redevelop damaged homes.
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
