Economy

Dealing with the current economy

Punk Rock and the New Urbanism: Getting back to basics

We’re living in an era of new economic realities, and the relevance of the planning and development trades depends on their — our — ability to get back to the basics of urban growth and development.

Protecting small businesses from suburban redevelopment

A county executive in Maryland says he doesn't want redevelopment to hurt small businesses as it did in Silver Spring.

Temporary bulb-out

This Better Block temporary arrangement of potted plants in South Dallas helped alert people to the benefits of narrowing the pavement and making the roadways more accommodating to pedestrians.

Source: The Better Block

War's end could help fund US infrastructure

Obama says the Iraq pullout could allow more spending at home, but transportation gets short shrift in the State of the Union.

Posted by Philip Langdon on 25 Jan 2012

Depressed home prices hurt municipal budgets

The bust in housing values that began in 2007 has just begun to ravage property tax revenues across the US.

On the trail of Donald Shoup

"L.A. wasn’t built around the car," says a writer exploring the life's work of the UCLA 'parking guru.' "It was built around the parking lot."

California redevelopment agencies face extinction

The outcome of a measure that would save some 400 redevelopment agencies from being abolished by Feb. 1 is uncertain.

Nearly every US metro area is poorer than in 2000

A Brookings analysis shows that 91 of the top 100 metro areas ended the decade with lower median incomes than in 2000.

Save that tiny Post Office

Rural towns campaign to keep their tiny post offices operating in the face of the Postal Service's daunting deficits.

Public transit, gaining riders, needs help

Ridership has risen 31 percent since the mid-1990s—meriting more government support, not less.