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Businesses, Students Collaborate To Transform A Streetscape
A collaboration between store owners and architecture students aims to transform the streetscape of University Avenue.
Tourism And Transit
A new research brief argues that strategies for placing public transport at the heart of leisure and tourism mobility need to be developed.
Slow Sprawl With Smaller Lots
Zoning rules that require large lots are contributing to sprawl.
Seattle Monorail Declared Historic
Seattle's Landmarks Preservation Board has declared the Seattle Center monorail historic, complicating plans for a new line.
$100 Million Plan To Revitalize Downtown Brooklyn
Revitalization plan includes rezoning to encourage commercial and residential development.
New York Needs A 21st-century Transit System
City Limits explains why New York can't afford not to build a 21st-century public transportation system.
A Green Solution To Improve Cities
Big cities like Chicago and Atlanta are discovering the benefits of urban trees.
Placemaking: Smart Growth And The Arts
Artists need places and places need artists -- how the arts and smart growth can work together.
Top 20 States Losing Farmland To Development
Farming on the Edge presents the top 20 states losing prime farmland to development, as well as posters and images.
APA Researchers Brief Michigan Land Use Leadership Council
Urge Council Members to "Fix What's Broken" Before Addressing Complex Issues
GPS Technology Is Vulnerable
Attempts to jam GPS-based weapons and navigation systems are a reminder of just how vulnerable GPS technology really is.
New Apartments For A Suburban City
New apartments blend urban ideas into business-park settings in San Jose.
The Expense of Due Process
How due process bogs down city planning and drains public, andprivate, coffers in San Francisco.
Go Sprawl: City Gives Up Control Of Edge Development
Albuquerque's City Hall no longer controls development around the edges of the city.
'Tis The Season To Rebuild, And Reconsider
In Iraq, a different kind of rebuilding.
Florida Town Approves Big Box Despite Advice Of Their Planner
Zephyrhills, Florida, City Council members cleared the way Monday night for a Lowe's home improvement store, against the advice of city planner Todd Vande Berg who found the plans in conflict with the comprehensive plan.
Will Planners Defend Smart Growth?
Proponents of property rights and other conservatives are attacking smart growth as a theory dreamed up by out-of-touch urban planners.
Honesty And Seattle's Monorail Tax
Seattle's Monorail Tax will show just how honest the city is says Bill Radke.
25 Years Of Forward-thinking Design
Builder Magazine looks back at 25 years of'progress, pundits, projects, products and predictions.'
Boston Commuter Rail Expansion May Yield To Urban Transit
The governor of Massachusetts plans to shift transit funding to inner city projects.
Ada County Highway District
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
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.
