Texas
The Next Big Dig?
A Houston transportation engineer envisions an ambitious plan for ten miles of underground highway.
'Bus Rapid Transit' Systems Gaining Support
The hybrid service is already a hit in Las Vegas. With the promise of FTA start-up funds, can cities like Houston be far behind?
Reevluating Development In Free-market Houston
As the effects of Houston's continued outward sprawl hit suburbanites as well as those in the city, there are renewed calls to examine planning issues.
Congressional Delegation To Ensure Houston's Transit Funding
Houston's transit plan takes a small step for commuter-kind.
McMansions or 'Recycled Homes'?
Homeowners calls them McMansions. Developers consider them reinvesting and recycling homes.
Houston Needs Innovative Traffic Solutions
Can combining technology, incentives and HOV lanes solve Houston's traffic problems?
SUV Sales Begin To Fall In Texas
As the cost to gas up a full-size SUV nears $100, even Texans are beginning to rethink purchasing the 'National Car of Texas'.
Houston Embraces 'New Weather Urbanism'
Houston decides to tackle the weather as its biggest impediment to New Urbanism.
A 10-lane Road To The Future
A mammoth toll highway in Texas could bring new prosperity ... or let it pass by.
Unfolding Texas Transit
Texas state's comptroller launches a battle against the Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority. Is this a debate about transit, or just bad politics?
Highway Building: Texas Style
The $185 billion Trans-Texas Corridor, with 4,000 miles of expressways, mostly toll lanes. will be nearly a quarter-mile wide.
Supersized Highways
Texas is planning a behemoth, statewide transit system that raises more questions than it answers.
Is Austin Ready for TOD?
A feature-length story examines the dramatic impact transit-oriented development is likely to have on Austin's future.
Test Your 'MetroRail IQ'
On the first anniversary of the Main Street light rail line, the Houston Chronicle's transportation columnist offers his own MetroRail IQ test.
Rediscovering Urban Life
Houston's center is beginning to flourish but there are still challenges ahead.
Austin: The Year In Review
2004's top ten local issues in the central Texas region.
Getting Started On The Trans Texas Corridor
The Trans Texas Corridor is a planned statewide corridor for rail, passenger and freight roadways.
New Urbanism With A Texas Twang
Sandy Sorlien continues the MainStreet Diary series with a visit to Fort Worth, a city in the midst ofrebuilding and revitalization.
Fighting The Homeless?
Proposed Austin ordinances would criminalize common homeless activities -- but might some of these activities be more common than many realize?
A Mall Is Not A Town Square, Court Rules
Texas courts uphold a controversial ruling on privately-owned shopping centers to regulate solicitation on center properties.
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
