Land Use
Maryland's Suburban Sprawl Battle
Maryland Governor Glendening warns that he intends to start using a neglected 25-year old law that allows the state to bring court challenges against potentially harmful rezoning decisions.
Boomburbs!
A new type of city explodes around the edges of metropolis.
Roads Are Crucial To Transit-oriented Development
A Maryland architecture professor argues that roads, not just public transit, are necessary for a successful TOD.
Maine Town Rejects Smart Growth
Residents fight smart growth plan, charging that planners are trying to urbanize the community.
Email Battle Over Sprawl And Density Rages
The Sierra Club, Demographia and Thoreau Institute battle it out over a new "sprawl calculator."
Private FL University Gets Growth Control Exemption
Florida's Governor grants a private university an exemption to the state's strict growth management rules.
Smart Growth Backlash: Property Rights
Farmers in Maryland want to sell their farms which are loosing money. The state, however, wants to stop sprawl.
Dallas Rejects Super-sized Billboards
The Dallas planning commission rejects the use of "supergraphics" on downtown buildings.
MSNBC Profiles New Urbanist James Kunstler
Kunstler, author of Geography of Nowhere, is crusading to end sprawl and promote new urbanism.
Land Use Fraud: A Planner Gone Bad
A planner and land use consultant in Eugene, Oregon collaborate to break the law.
Businesses And Residents Collide Over Bridge Expansion
With bridge expansion on one side and community growth on the other, residents and business owners are grappling with a construction drama that pits quality of life against the need for room at the bustling international span.
Kentucky Is Urging Citizens To Think About Planning
The governor's smart-growth task force is holding meetings across the state to encourage residents to participate in the planning process to prevent sprawl.
Colorado Springs Rejects Urban Renewal Plan
The Colorado Springs city council rejects the pedestrian-friendly plan because they don't want to use eminent domain.
Cronyism In The San Francisco Planning Office
An audit of the Planning Department in San Francisco, CA suggests the city may be giving preferential treatment to some developers.
Lancaster, CA May Give Over Parkland For Development
The city of Lancaster is prepared give more than five acres of the city park for a shopping center, but residents and two former mayors oppose the plan.
Urban Sprawl Threatens Canada's Prime Farmland
With 2,500 hectares (6,200 acres) of some of Canada's best farmland paved over each year around Toronto planners and academics urge new approaches for growth.
Much Of Western U.S. Still The Frontier
Despite the latest census figures, which highlight the exploding growth in the west, much of the region is still uninhabited, with growth concentrated in a few cities.
Kunstler On The Fiasco Of Suburbia
James Howard Kunstler takes environmentalists to task for considering human nature something distinct from the rest of nature.
Brookings Institute Scholar Says Pittsburgh Sprawl Is Worse Than LA
To Bruce Katz of the Brookings Institution, who will speak to a seminar on Smart Growth in Pittsburgh, the town is slowly sprawling out of control.
Looking At Parks From A Regional Perspective
A group of citizens and local government officials in and around Portland are making the case for regional participation in the planning, acquisition and maintenance of parks.
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.
Caltrans
Smith Gee Studio
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
