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Speeding suburbanization - what's a planner to do?
Charlotte is fast-growing, but growth rates just to its south are eye-popping. We talk with the planning director who's trying to manage rapid suburba...
He watched, and researched, Charlotte's growth
Owen Furuseth, associate provost at UNC Charlotte, has observed and studied open space preservation, neighborhood changes and immigration's impact in ...
Cohousing: A square-peg way to live, in a round-hole world
PlanCharlotte talks with Robert Boyer, a UNC Charlotte assistant professor of planning, who studies cohousing.
Kannapolis, a town that towels built, faces its future
In the first episode of the PlanCharlotte podcast, Mary Newsom interviews Zachary Gordon, planning director for Kannapolis, N.C., a city with a unique...