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.

Last week, Citified settled the debate over gentrification once and for all (just kidding ). So now we’re on to the next most-loaded, maligned buzzword in urban studies: sprawl. Much like ...

Even as the city and state governments confront diminishing revenues and budget shortfalls, development pressures and real estate prices are climbing throughout much of the city's suburban rings. This ...

If San Diego is ever going to become a truly urban place, coastal neighborhoods will have to be built out more densely. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi) This is your first of three free stories this month.

The city that had long been the poster child of sprawl is putting its gears in reverse. With a new light rail line and a plan to make the city’s core denser and more desirable, it’s on the path to ...

There is overwhelming evidence that urban sprawl has been beneficial for many people. Year after year, the vast majority of Americans respond to batteries of polls by saying that they are quite happy ...

The World Watch's anti-suburban tome - City Limits Putting the Brakes on Sprawl, by Molly O'Meara Sheehan - is the usual "glass is half empty" attack on the modern suburban life style, propped with ...

I live in Houston and I don’t own a car. I know, I know: If there is a more hard-to-believe statement to make about any American city with a straight face, I don’t know what it is. But it’s true. Last ...

The term “urban sprawl” might conjure up images of Newark or Houston, but the dense, chaotic outskirts of Cairo, Egypt present a planning nightmare on a different scale. This summer, Alicia G. Harley ...

(LiveScience) Urban development is set to triple in the first three decades of this century, the largest cityscape expansion in human history, according to a new study that for the first time maps out ...

Commuters in Los Angeles spend some 60 hours a year stuck in traffic. But that could change, some experts say, as the city ramps up its mass transit. Guest host John Dankosky talks with a panel of ...