The Wall Street Journal’s real estate blog recently featured a paper by National Center for Policy Analysis’s Wendell Cox implicating smart growth planning and policies for the housing boom and bust. Cox holds that metro areas with prescriptively regulated land use restrictions suffered the most from skyrocketing housing…

The 10th Anniversary Edition of Suburban Nation, The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream, was recently released and includes three new essays by the authors, Jeff Speck, Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk . Order the book here.

The new edition…

The Congress for New Urbanism has joined the effort to change the lending practices, particularly of government backed mortgage agencies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, that discourage investment in Main Streets, in downtowns and in other revitalizing mixed-use neighborhoods.

CNU adds their voice to that of House Financial Services Committee…