Two U.S. Supreme Court rulings could have dramatic effects on land use and growth.

Colorado firm helps identify smart growth solutions through its user-friendly poster.

Over the past several years, natural disasters have proven at least two things: You don’t have to live in Southern California to be hit by an earthquake.

Faced with ongoing lawsuits from products they in most cases stopped making decades ago, the parent companies of some of the biggest suppliers of building materials are looking to Congress for measures to gain control of the situation.

For seven years builders and developers operating in a huge, five-county swath of Southern California have submitted to costly mitigation efforts to help save a federally listed bird species.

Florida builder contemplates another run for state office, says others in housing industry should do the same.

To avoid risk of developing land on their own, three Florida builders formed a partnership to buy a 223-acre Sarasota site.

It is a term that strikes fear in hearts no matter what its name -- anti-growth or no growth -- but if you ask any builder, there’s nothing 'smart' about what might soon change the face of home construction in Colorado and Arizona.

Some are old and some are just beginning, but no matter what stage they’re at, the communities, the builders and the developers profiled here are the ones writing a new set of rules for residential development.