"Shaming" is a trend in code enforcement. It involves putting a big sign in front of a weedy lot or tumbledown house with the name and phone number of the owner. But it's important to be selective, a Milwaukee city official told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. If the owner can afford the improvements but just won't spend the money, a sign goes up. But if an owner can't afford them, it doesn't.

Middle-aged suburbs with a disproportionate number of houses from the 1950s and '60s are in trouble.

My in-laws live in Greenville, South Carolina, where the downtown scene has grown much more robust over the five or six years they've lived there. ...

A handful of states are beginning to focus on the need to preserve digital documents.

The pictorial approach to building codes