Urban Development

Planners look to reconceive what took 300 years to evolve.

October 12, 2005 - The Christian Science Monitor

How local government policy -- as opposed to state and federal policies -- contributed to Atlanta's sprawl.

October 11, 2005 - Social Science Research Network/Ecology Law Quarterly

American buyers -- usually from California -- are using equity in their US homes to buy vacation homes in southern half of the Baja Peninsula, causing the Baja housing market to sizzle.

October 11, 2005 - The Los Angeles Times

The neighborhood preservation movement has arrived in New York City, and residents are pushing back against ever-increasing density.

October 11, 2005 - The New York Times

Is Oregon's urban growth boundary (UGB) program -- the most stringent anti-sprawl measure adopted by any U.S. state -- constitutional? Has it saved Portland from effects of sprawl?

October 10, 2005 - Utah Law Review, Social Science Research Network

Thanks to new Neighborhood Entreprise Zone designations, loft development is becoming more viable in Detroit.

October 10, 2005 - The Detroit Free Press

One chain increasingly tailors its stores to the urban market by including two levels, escalators, and structured parking.

October 10, 2005 - New Urban News

The informal Las Vegas 'urban growth boundary' just keeps getting pushed further back.

October 10, 2005 - Las Vegas Sun

Florida realtors believe that the strong economy in Central Florida, along with an influx of retirees and foreign home buyers, will sustain their record-breaking housing prices.

October 9, 2005 - The Orlando Sentinel

As new urbanist ideas begin to emerge in Calgary, a local columnist wonders whether New Urbanism promotes artifice over ideas that might actually work.

October 8, 2005 - Calgary News And Entertainment Weekly

Why is McDonalds is trying to block Starbucks from moving into the Liberty Square shopping center in Wauconda, IL?

October 7, 2005 - The Chicago Tribune

Revitalization efforts in downtown Phoenix receive a huge boost with plans for a $200 million mixed-used development in the heart of downtown. [Includes photos.]

October 7, 2005 - The Arizona Republic

As urban schools decline, those who can afford it head for ever-expanding, land-consuming 'burbs. The flight of the affluent drains urban schools of funding. We can break the cycle, says Dan Akst.

October 7, 2005 - Grist Magazine

A major revitalization of downtown Los Angeles leaves skid row residents with far fewer choices in housing, and has led to accusations of 'dumping' the homeless.

October 6, 2005 - The Los Angeles Times

India's retail industry is undergoing a dramatic transformation as the middle class flocks to shopping malls and foreign investors are poised to move in.

October 5, 2005 - BBC World Service

The Dutch are gearing up for climate change with amphibious houses. If rivers rise above their banks, the houses simply float higher.

October 5, 2005 - Der Spiegel

A proposed 55-story hotel next to the downtown Convention Center already has other area hotel owners ready to fight the City Council in court.

October 4, 2005 - The Los Angeles Times

The FBI and Building Industry Association of Washington are offering $100,000 for the conviction individuals responsible for criminal acts claimed by the Earth Liberation Front (ELF).

October 4, 2005 - Nation's Building News

The City of Boston and a group of private developers will seek to develop the last downtown frontier by adding 3 million square feet of development on what is currently a sea of parking lots.

October 3, 2005 - The Boston Globe

Projet Montreal, led by urban planner Richard Bergeron, campaigns for car-free development in civic election campaign.

October 2, 2005 - The Montreal Gazette