Land Use
Boston's Dudley Triangle
The Fannie Mae Foundation publishes a practitioner's guide to planning and financing community revitalization.
Flexible Zoning Rules: A Builder's Nightmare
Why flexible rules and reasonable regulators are a builders worst nightmare.
Smart Growth Toolkit
The Urban Land Institute's smart growth toolkit shows best practices for success.
Special PBS Report On New Urbanism
NewsHour with Jim Lehrer has created a website featuring detailed interviews and images about new urbanism.
Lone Mountain Compact: Livability Principles
The Lone Mountain Compact: Principles for preserving freedom and livabilityin America's cities and suburbs.
OC Approves $1.5 Million For El Toro
The county supervisors vote 3-2 to set aside money for Washington lobbyists to transfer the base to the county.
New Approaches To Growth Management
Governor Jeb Bush's taskforce on growth is drafting new legislation to slow sprawl in the state.
Sustainable Agriculture Amid Sprawl
King County is experimenting with sustainable agriculture in the midst of sprawl.
Is Land Use Planning Doomed To Failure?
This editorial suggests that land use practices are doomed to failure because they rely on zoning that ignores natural resources.
NY Times Sprawl Controversy
The director of Smart Growth America, disputes a New York Times article about a splinter in the smart growth community.
Managing Growth: Some Cities Take Action
Some cities in Georgia are creating their own long-term strategies to combat urban sprawl. Critics argue that some "smart growth" ordinances violate property rights and cause other problems.
What Is Your State's Most Enlightened Town?
Utne Reader publishes its list of the most enlightened town for every American state.
America's 10 Most Enlightened Towns
This isn't your typical "best places" tabulation of cities. Utne Reader creates it's own definition of community.
What Makes Regionalism Work?
The Alliance for Regional Stewardship publishes a reports on what makes regionalism work.
Transit-Oriented Development
New Urban News' December, 2000 issue includes a feature on transit-oriented development.
California's Housing Crisis
California's housing crisis has no cure without Proposition 13 reforms.
Goodbye To Garden Apartments
Does the need for housing in New York spell the end of the gardens in garden apartments
Growth Requires New Approaches To Planning
Faced with record growth, Wake County, NC is taking a new, more active role in the region's planning.
Denver's Fumbling Growth
The Denver Post critically reviews Colorado's growth management efforts in 2000, and lays out an agenda for 2001.
Smart Growth Must Include Affordable Housing
According to the new Urban Land Institute chairman, smart growth must include affordable housing.
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.
Heyer Gruel & Associates PA
City of Moreno Valley
Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS)
City of Grandview
Harvard GSD Executive Education
Salt Lake City
NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
City of Cambridge, Maryland