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2010 Census Faces Foreclosure Challenges

The high amount of foreclosures is expected to make things tougher for Census officials as they prepare for 2010 Census enumeration.
14 October 2009 - 11:00am
The Associated Press

There's No Place Like Home

Joel Kotkin sees a trend in a 'New Localism'- people aren't moving around like they used to, and it's causing them to reengage with their communities.
13 October 2009 - 2:00pm
Newsweek
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First Fast Food, Now South L.A. Looks to Ban Convenience Stores

Community activists are calling for a ban on new convenience stores in South Los Angeles, a lower income part of town that saw a ban on new fast food restaurants last year.
13 October 2009 - 11:00am
The Los Angeles Times

More Solo Drivers in the South, Northeast

Richard Florida takes a look at a recent report showing connecting solo commuters with location and comes up with an interesting demographic breakdown.
11 October 2009 - 1:00pm
Atlantic Monthly

Citizen-Activated Adaptive Urban Spaces

The availability of information in the city is creating a new opportunity for adaptive and interactive urban spaces. As Carlo Ratti of MIT's SENSEable City Lab discusses, the key is people.
11 October 2009 - 9:00am
Wired UK

Mapping Population Density of Nations

These maps are distorted to emphasize areas with higher populations. Check out the warped US and bloated Australia.
9 October 2009 - 5:00am
Fast Company

A City Burns its Troubles Away

Every year, residents in Santa Fe, New Mexico send a huge human effigy into flames. Burning with it are physical representations of the bad memories and experiences of the past year.
7 October 2009 - 5:00am
Los Angeles Times

Not So Fast- Seniors Moving to Cities

A report by the MetLife Mature Market Institute says that seniors are moving away from suburbs and to more walkable, urban areas.
6 October 2009 - 7:00am
San Jose Mercury News

Boomers Get Rural

A new report from the USDA says that baby boomers will be flooding out of metropolitan areas and into the countryside over the next ten years.
6 October 2009 - 6:00am
The Oregonian

Ban on Biking and Walking to School May Be Lifted

A 15-year-old ban on biking and walking to school in Saratoga Springs, New York may be lifted, after one bike-friendly parent challenged the policy.
4 October 2009 - 7:00am
Governing
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The Rural Recession

A new report from the Economic Research Service looks at how the economic recession is affecting rural areas. For the most part, things are a lot worse in America's nonmetro areas.
3 October 2009 - 11:00am
The Daily Yonder

Kids Tackling Planning Issues

The Municipal Art Society of New York talks with four young people who are actively involved in addressing the planning challenges facing their communities.
3 October 2009 - 9:00am
Municipal Art Society

Small Town History on a Cell Phone

A two-minute call on a cell phone is now a window into local history in Orange, New Jersey, where a new project has created an audio tour/history lesson out of more than 30 recordings of local residents.
3 October 2009 - 5:00am
The New Jersey Star-Ledger

Top 10 Cities for Today's Youth

The Wall St. Journal assembled a panel to determine which cities will be the next 'youth-magnets,' using factors like economic diversity and lifestyle to make their selections. Number one? A tie between Washington, D.C. and Seattle.
2 October 2009 - 10:00am
The Wall St. Journal

Fastest Growing Areas in U.S. Also the Whitest

As we learned in The Big Sort, America is sorting itself into enclaves of people with similar beliefs. In Whitopia, Rich Benjamin shows that the fastest growing areas are also the most white.
2 October 2009 - 9:00am
Miller-McCune

Creating Neighborhood Capital from Strip Malls

Strip malls are in virtually every American city, but they're rarely an important part of those cities. Ava Bromberg says they can be. Her idea is to turn strip malls into community-owned hubs that generate capital within their neighborhood and keep it there.
1 October 2009 - 10:00am
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How to Speak Senior Citizen

Elaine Cogan gives these tips for talking about planning issues with senior citizens and getting the most out of them throughout the planning process.
1 October 2009 - 6:00am
Planning Commissioners Journal

Social Networking for Skyscrapers

Mary Newsom recently argued that social networking tools like Facebook and Twitter don't create a "third place". But what if the network is hyperlocal, like within a skyscraper? STACKD is a new site that does just that.
29 September 2009 - 11:00am
Urban Omnibus
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