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The Reshaping Metropolitan America author talks about how the country will accommodate some 25 million new households between now and 2030, and how the ways we build for population growth will look different than they did in the recent past.

Freight is crippling metro areas, but it's rarely part of city planning.

A lot of popular assumptions about the Generation Y are dead wrong, experts said at an Urban Land Institute workshop last week, and that has big implications for retailers in the coming years.

Food service is crowding out retail in well-to-do parts of America's downtowns, while poor city areas suffer from a lack of food availability.

About the Old House Fair, held each June in historic South Park neighborhood near Balboa Park in San Diego, CA. Includes home tour, festival with exhibits, entertainment, kids crafts, free tours, and more.

There's plenty of money for studying how to improve City Heights streets, but not much for actually making improvements.

Two new Republican groups are bucking their party's widespread rejection of climate science. They're targeting young people, warning of the national security risks of fossil fuel dependence, and touting free market ideas to deal with global warming.

Preservation's a thankless but rewarding occupation for 31st annual award winners

Hallstatt, Austria, is in China. So is the Eiffel Tower, the Taj Mahal, Christ the Redeemer, and a soon-to-be-completed Manhattan. They are copy towns.

The Port Authority used to set records in good ways. The George Washington Bridge was a marvel of engineering in its day, the world’s longest bridge when it was built,