With a focus on its historic Union Station, Los Angeles is trying to create transit links between downtown and surrounding historic neighborhoods—and invited a ULI advisory services panel to weigh in.

As city governments seek to improve the sustainability of their buildings—while also cutting operating costs—they are increasingly exploring the benefits of green civic structures. Read about the city of Henderson, Nevada’s experience with its North Community Police Station, which offers valuable lessons for other cities while also highlighting some important benefits of a green police station.

Nashville, the capital of Tennessee, now has one of the nation’s most successful home retrofitting campaigns—Go Green Nashville. It started two years ago as a small pilot initiative by the ULI Nashville Sustainability Committee, targeting an urban neighborhood within the city, and has now taken off. Read more to discover what has made this community-based initiative so successful and what lessons can be applied in your area.

“We are looking at a likely future of remaking places, including retrofitting suburbia instead of endlessly building new subdivisions at the edges, and interspersing agriculture at a variety of scales with community building,” says Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, founding partner of DPZ/Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company. Read what she sees as the future of new urbanism.

Whether revitalizing struggling communities or augmenting housing bases of high-cost neighborhoods, the winners of the 2010 Jack Kemp Workforce Housing Models of Excellence Awards are helping working-class families afford to live near employment centers. The winners are in Washington, D.C.; Denver; Newton, Massachusetts; and Baltimore.