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Over 15,000 Species Facing Extinction, Report Warns
Development pressures, habitat loss, climate change and pollution are driving the world's non-human species and plants to the brink.
Another Ecological Footprint Calculator
Ever wondered how much "nature" your lifestyle requires?
What If We Built Our Cities Around Places?
PPS examines the changes needed to begin to view urban elements as interrelated components of a single place.
Friday Funny: The Humbler
The cartoon strip FoxTrot runs a special series on the appeal of massive SUVs.
Germany's 'Slow-motion Calamity'
Commentators conjure up a sort of reverse Malthusian nightmare: Germany as a land of predominantly geriatric towns and cities set in a deserted, creeping countryside.
Combining A Lifestyle Mall With New Urbanism
A makeover of Santa Monica's popular Third Street Promenade would increase mixed use and demolish an enclosed mall to create a new lifestyle center.
EPA Announces 2004 Smart Growth Awards
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced five winners of the 2004 National Awards for Smart GrowthAchievement.
Google The Planet
The popular search engine adds a new feature -- a 3D digital model of the entire earth.
Clean-Air Cops Handcuffed
The EPA wants stricter curbs on air pollution. But critics say lax enforcement may undermine its goals.
The Endangered Endangered Species Act
The 30-year old Endangered Species Act may face sweeping changes.
The SUV Invasion of Europe
Despite vocal opposition, SUVs invade Europe.
Premature Deaths Attributed To Smog
Ground-level ozone, a common form of air pollution long linked to breathing problems, is being blamed for thousands of premature deaths each year in a new study of 95 urban areas.
Planning By Ballot Measures
Citizens across the country voted on how they want their communities to grow.
36 Urban Planning 'What Ifs'
Thirty-six thoughts on reviving ailing cities.
It's The Cities, Stupid
After reviewing the familiar red/blue election map, The Stranger concludes that urban liberals live in the Urban Archipelago, the United Cities of America.
Producing Cartograms: Density Equalizing Maps
Map makers have long searched for a way to construct cartograms -- maps in which the sizes of geographic regions such as countries or provinces appear in proportion to their population or some other analogous property.
Conceiving A Sustainable Future In The Egyptian Desert
A progressive industrial park on the banks of the Nile aims to restore the balance between economic growth and environmental quality.
The End of Oil
A Caltech physicist warns that fossil fuels -- and time -- are running out.
America's Obsession with Consumption
The greatest moral threat to the United States is not gay marriage, writes Derrick Jackson, but the inability to live within our means in a world of want.
Tracking Metropolitan America Into The 21st Century
An overhaul of the widely-recognized metropolitan classification system by the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) will refashion the both research and federal spending.
Pagination
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