Planning

Planning

• A Healthy Dose of Big Ideas

  Brainstorming with your staff can keep your team feeling energized, creative, and productive all year long.

   

• Seaside Remains a Model of New Urbanism

  One of the first projects to bring the concept of New Urbanism to the public eye, Seaside continues to inspire others as a standard for good urban planning.

   

• A Desire Named Streetcar

  What the oldest operating transit system in the U.S. can teach us about planning for tomorrow.

   

• Greensboro, N.C., Offers One-Stop Shop for Project Review

  Representatives from all of the city’s planning, zoning, and technical departments are now available for consultation in one office.

   

• Landmarks: Makuhari Housing, Chiba, Japan

  Makuhari Housing in Japan was designed within a very restrictive set of planning guidelines, yet the final result is very creative and flexible.

   

• ULI Study Underscores Need for National Infrastructure Plan

  The country desperately needs a 21st-century national infrastructure plan to emerge from its deep recession and ensure future prosperity, according to Infrastructure 2009: A Pivotal Point, a publication released last week by the Urban Land Institute and Ernst & Young.

   

• Dr. Richard Florida: Emerging Creative Class Will Demand Sense of Place

   

• Green Guidelines

  Los Angeles has launched The Private Sector Green Building Program to cut carbon emissions by more than 80,000 tons by the year 2012.

   

• Top Five Tips for Creating a Mixed-use Masterpiece

   

• Planning is Vital to Repositioning Acquired Properties