Housing
Expansion Follows Convention Center
While construction continues on the San Diego Convention Center, its board is ready to commission new studies for a bigger facility.
Fresno's Expecting ... a Population Explosion
Fresno's population increases and so does residents' ire at Mayor Jim Pattersonplan to deal with it.
Tahoe's Tent City
Facing an affordable housing crisis, a Lake Tahoe businessman has built a tent city for his college-age employees.
Traffic, Housing Concerns at Moffett Hearing
At a public hearing focusing on NASA's plans for a formal naval air base in Mountain View, CA, residents expressed concern over traffic, housing, and public transportation issues.
Catellus Gets Out of Home-Building
Catellus Development Corp., one of the West's largest developers, is selling the majority of its home building operations. Is this a sign?
Paradise Lost: High-Tech in Orange County
Orange County boosters envisioned an oasis for high-tech firms. But high-tech firms have a negative impression of suburbia.
Experiments in New Urbanism: Planning or Fantasy?
Oregon is experimenting with a new urban village in Orenco. Right now it's just a field of grass with a railway station. Is this planning, or fantasy?
Public Housing Desegregation Report
HUD publishes its results on research into voluntarily entering into consent decrees on discriminatory housing practices instead of litigating.
SF's New Housing Proposal
A proposed plan would make it easier for developers in San Francisco to build taller residential buildings and sidestep planning regulations in return for more affordable units.
Indio Building Project Abandoned
A new building aimed at boosting city of Indio's downtownrevitalization efforts is abandoned.
NASA Plans for Moffet Field
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration will hold public hearingsconcerning their plans for a large shared-use educational and research-and-development campus at Moffett Fieldin Mountain View, California.
To Be a Developer
Smart growth,the environment, and what it means to be a developer.
Redondo Beach Reduces Construction Noise
Stiff penalties for unlawful construction noise has reducednoise violations in Redondo Beach, California.
LA's Porter Ranch Downsized and Approved
Porter Ranch requests and receives approval for scaled-back development from Los Angeles Planning Commisssion.
Pasadena's Urban Investment Priorities
Pasadena's Mayor Bill Bogaard discusses 710 Freeway expansion, his vision for alternative transit, Pasadena's power company. and how to maintain a high quality of life.
TRPA Lifts Tahoe Construction Ban
Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA) has lifted a limited ban on condominium construction in the Tahoe Basin.
San Jose Funding for Affordable Housing
San Jose City Council approved $150 million funding for 2,056 new affordable homes.
Zoning Approved for Shoreline Hotel
Mountain View, California, approveszoning changes to make way for a hotel complex that could add to rush-hour traffic problems.
San Jose Downtown Growth
High demand for office space in the Silicon Valley willdramatically impact San Jose's downtown skyline where plans for 10 new high-rises are in the works.
Long Beach Approves $100 Million Project
Long Beach City Council approved the $100 Million Queensway Bay Project which includesa waterfront entertainment, dining and retail complex.
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.
Clanton & Associates, Inc.
Jessamine County Fiscal Court
Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS)
City of Grandview
Harvard GSD Executive Education
Toledo-Lucas County Plan Commissions
Salt Lake City
NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
