Community Planning & Development

  • Coal Town Reaches for Sustainability
    By Vanessa DeSantisA little town in West Virginia has launched a national crowd funding effort to help pay for its campaign to “rewrite Central Appalachia’s story.” The Sustainable Williamson...
  • Wall Street Money Returns to Foreclosed Housing
    By Bendix AndersonWall Street investors like The Blackstone Group are buying up foreclosed single-family homes in markets across the country.“We’re betting that housing prices are going to begin to...
  • Another suburban transformation planned outside Washington, DC
    Montgomery County, Maryland aims to transform about 720 acres of shopping centers, highway, commercial spaces, light industries, and a few upscale apartments into a sustainable, walkable community...
  • Texas Park Spans a Freeway
    Dallas–More than 44,000 people celebrated the Grand Opening of the 5.2-acre, $110 million Klyde Warren Park, which spans the eight-lane Woodall Rodgers Freeway.In addition to being its own...
  • EPA Awards “Building Blocks” Winners
    Forty-three communities will receive technical assistance from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) through its Building Blocks for Sustainable Communities program.The EPA’s competitive...
  • Reducing Congestion
    By Jack Carey, P.E.Over the past decade, there has been a significant shift in the way U.S. transportation infrastructure is developed and upgraded. Simply put, state and municipal planners and...
  • Living Green Takes A Village
    A recent story on Mother Nature Network highlights five thriving communities of people who are drawn together by a shared desire to live more sustainably. They live in EcoVillages, communal...
  • Hecht decries ‘dead ideas’
    Fresh thinking about how cities meet their citizens’ needs must supplant the “tyranny of dead ideas,” according to Ben Hecht, who heads up Living Cities.    As an example of outmoded...
  • Shaking up city programs
    “Disruptive innovation” plays a key role in making cities more successful, according to Steve Goldsmith, a professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and former mayor of Indianapolis. ...
  • Mixed use project moves ahead
    Fairfax County, Va., planning staff have given their approval to a major piece of the transformation of Tyson’s Corner from a sprawling suburb into a transit-oriented mixed-use community. The...
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