A new California law overrides local regulations to provide multifamily housing around transit corridors. Can it succeed in ...

Communities can protect agriculture by building compact cities and buying conservation easements, an American Farmland Trust ...

It was mid-January 1997, the coldest day of the year, when city planners descended on Salt Lake City. They worked in a strange profession, a mixture of architecture, engineering and philosophy.

I would like to respond to Kevon Martis' Feb. 27 column where he says I repeat a lie that he is misusing professor Steven Miller's economic impact study. He says he has an email from Miller ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Once the signature of an era of pell-mell development, American sprawl has slowed to a crawl in recent years, a new study finds. New streets in metro areas are being built more ...

A National Geographic special issue examines the way we've been building cities. "Rethinking Cities" is part of National Geographic’s special-edition, single-topic issue on "Cities: Ideas for a ...

Available data also indicates that over 60 percent of Uganda’s urban population lives in slums, under the most degrading ...

Numbers may tell the stories of cities in growth or decline, but they're not as appealing as some of the works in "Sprawl." Two artists, in particular, depict big urban issues with poetic approaches ...

High housing prices have reached crisis proportions in much of the country. You can blame the war on sprawl for that. Since the 1960s, planners have convinced many state and regional governments to ...

Brookfield Kolter Land Partners may sue Martin County after the County Commission rejected a proposal for 1,050 homes.

WILKES-BARRE – One local family apparently feels Luzerne County and Wilkes-Barre city are in need of some Urban renewal. The Urban family – Steve, a Luzerne County commissioner, his wife, Linda, and ...