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Strategic Planning in Rural Georgia: Meet Newton County
Once you realize your small community will experience development pressure from a suddenly not-so-distant major city, how do you respond? Do you fight the growth, hoping to pass it on to the next...
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Comprehensive Planning Classroom: Georgia
In 2007, Newton County was already in the top ten fastest growing counties in the country and struggling to serve 60,000 people, but its existing zoning allowed over 350,000 people. This shocking...
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What can public agencies gain from collaboration?
While development pressure increased in the early 2000s, each public agency and municipality in Newton County felt it in different ways. Though communication across groups had traditionally been...
View ArticlePlanning for Growth in a Recession
In 2007, Newton County, Georgia was one of the fastest growing counties in the country. By 2008, it also lead in foreclosures. It was no coincidence that this county, or any of the others like it,...
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A Day in Oakland, California
Ruth Miller lives in downtown Oakland and commutes to UC Berkeley where she is studying for her Masters of City and Regional Planning. Spend a day in Oakland through a city planner’s eyes. It’s easy...
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A Day in Newton County, Georgia
As lovers of the built environment, planners have a robust cache of spaces to explore. Yet tourists and planners alike tend to focus their energies on metropolitan cities. Certainly, with public...
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Occupy Gentrification
Gentrification is a touchy subject, as it should be. Gentrification brings together deeply personal issues of home, community, and belonging. Feeling like you belong to a community is part of calling a...
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Rejecting the Narrow Framework of “Urban” Planning
A “pipe farm” in suburban Georgia. The development patterns America witnessed before the Great Recession convinced many transportation and land use professionals to appreciate regional thinking....
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The Self-Defeating Disconnect Between Cities and Schools
Planners are always looking for the bigger and bigger picture: what’s the externality and how can the system expand to account for those outcomes? “Traffic engineers” begat “transportation engineers”,...
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Why Schools Matter To Yuppies, Dinks, and You
Communities across the country are closing schools due to a combination of underpopulated, underperforming school districts and the increasing lure of private and charter schools. Many Philadelphia...
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