SAN DIEGO (KGTV) -- A new report from the Next 10, a non-partisan think tank at UC Berkeley, says California is getting it all wrong when it comes to building and rebuilding after wildfires. The ...

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.

Basic rule of urban design: If you can see it on a map, you’ve got a better chance of being able to lay out a thoughtful plan for development. That’s the impetus behind the recent upgrade to the Atlas ...

Environmentalists have been aghast at what they view as “urban sprawl” – the spreading of “soulless” suburban development across the once-pristine landscape. The anti-sprawl warriors claim this ...

Before the Great Recession and housing crisis, there was much talk about “urban sprawl” and its impact. There was talk of running out of farmland, causing food shortages, and pavement overtaking our ...

To the editor: There are two major fallacies in Joel Kotkin’s argument that low-density sprawl might explain the lower impact of COVID-19 in Southern California compared to New York. First, density ...

Robert Harding Pittman, “Dubai, UAE” (2009) (all photos courtesy the artist and Spot Photo Works) LOS ANGELES — The list of ways the US has negatively influenced the rest of the world is long and ...

Urban sprawl is not just unsightly. It could also be impeding intergenerational mobility for low-income residents and reinforcing racial inequality, according to a series of recent studies led by a ...

Urban expansion, at least in the few areas where Iowa cities are growing, is eating up some of the state's best farmland. Ankeny, a Central Iowa suburb of Des Moines, presents a prime example. A U.S.