United States
Smart Growth: A Solution To America's Weight Problem?
The link between health and sprawl makes 'smart' growth look even smarter.
Green Technology: Froth Or Foundation?
Green technology has been promoted as an environmentally responsible and fiscally sound alternative, but do green technologies really make good business sense?
Ensuring Architectural Quality In Sprawling Subdivisions
Municipalities are hiring architects to ensure that new development is architecturally interesting and does not look resemble sprawling cookie-cutter subdivisions
Seven Habits Of A Highly Effective Park System
With this report Harnik has expanded data collection to 55 cities and has expanded the measures of park-system quality to include what he calls the 'seven habits of a highly effective park system.'
The Bilbao Effect: Can Cultural Landmarks Revive Declining Cities?
Does pouring money in cultural landmarks help revive a declining city?
A Theme Park With An Unusual Theme
In this unusual theme park visitors can experience the lifestyles of the world's poor and learn how to build low-cost housing.
Photo Gallery: China's Three Gorges
Flooding begins at China's Three Gorges project. Critics say the project will cause massive environmental damage.
An SUV-sized Tax Loophole
An intentionally-overlooked tax loophole will allow any self-employed person to claim tax deductions for the purchase of an SUV.
Three Gorges: A Controversial 'Great Wall Of Water'
Water levels have started to rise in China's massive Three Gorges project, one of the most ambitious engineering projects ever involving the resettlement of up to two million people. Is this an environmental catastrophe in the making?
Online Land Use Decision Making Tool
The Long-Term Hydrologic Impact Assessment model is an online tool to assess the water quality impacts of land use change.
Bush Administration Proposal Threatens Critical Habitat Designation
Conservation groups have learned that the Bush Administration is planning to undermine one of the most important protections offered by the federal Endangered Species Act: critical habitat designation.
Quebec City To Rename 922 Streets
About one-fifth of the streets in Quebec City will be renamed in a massive transformation of the cityscape.
Curb Sprawl To Get Federal Funding
A new report advises that federal funding for Canadian urban projects should only be granted to urban projects that are sustainable, and would curb sprawl.
Toronto Region Communities Confront Sprawl
While the province's smart growth intitiative remains lacking in specifics and a firm commitment to action, three suburban Toronto communities find themselves actively wrestling with sprawl issues.
Budget Crisis: The Worst-Hit U.S. States
Many U.S. states face severe budget shorfalls. Why is the Bush administration indifferent to the crisis?
The Dark Side Of Successful Cities
Sometimes the appearance of success in a city masks problems bubbling right below the surface.
Redistricting Wars Get More Frequent
States like Texas look to redraw maps every two years instead of every 10.
Prefab Is Fab Again
Modular housing, though often overlooked, has the potential to transform American domestic architecture.
Bending The Future Of Architecture
An unlikely collaboration between an architecture professor and a Brooklyn metalworking shop has the potential to change the shape of architecture.
'The Next Big Thing In Transportation'
Why hasn't Personal Rapid Transit technology not yet found it's natural market?
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
