The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

A brick wall is being built on a traffic island in New York without human hands. The robot doing the work is a brainchild of two architects as an illustration of 'digital materiality'.

October 29 - Science Daily

Now that Ed Roski's new stadium in the City of Industry is exempt from CEQA, Bill Fulton wonders whether California can deny the same competitive advantage to others.

October 28 - California Planning & Development Report

The Senate transportation spending bill, signed last week, contains a provision requiring Amtrak to allow guns on its trains or lose its funding.

October 28 - The Hill

Daybreak is a massive development planned by Peter Calthorpe being built in Utah on land owned by a mining company. Artist Lucy Raven takes her camera for a visit to see how Daybreak is coming along given the soft housing market.

October 28 - Triple Canopy

A roundabout replaced a flashing red light that was causing traffic jams at an intersection in Wanker's Corner, Oregon. Locals are calling it a miracle.

October 28 - The Oregonian

Platte River Village, now building in Denver, is a new concept in fusing agriculture and suburbia.

October 28 - Denver Post

Forbes Magazine jumps into the fray once again with their list of "America's Safest Cities." Violent crime, workplace deaths, fatal crashes and natural disasters are all a part of the data considered.

October 28 - Forbes

Affordable space, city incentives, and good transport are bringing Oakland, CA back to its roots as a center of the food processing industry.

October 28 - San Francisco Chronicle

With closed borders and a military lockdown on all imports and exports, the Palestinians of Gaza rely on a network of smuggling tunnels to obtain goods.

October 28 - Time

Plans to build a group of villages near science and biotech office parks in Maryland could help the area secure federal light rail funding.

October 28 - The Washington Post

To protect the endangered Delta Smelt fish, pumping of water from California's Sacramento Delta has been drastically cut back. Add in the state's three-year-long drought, and the result is a major problem for the state's people and farmers.

October 28 - The Economist

Extensive investments in rail are slashing travel times in China, and creating a vastly more connected and accessible country.

October 27 - Newsweek

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October 27 - Ann Forsyth

A new computer modeling technique called "auralization" does just that, turning architectural drawings into simulated spaces.

October 27 - ArchiTech

A $5.4 billion deal to purchase two massive Manhattan apartment complexes and convert them to high-end rentals appears to be floundering.

October 27 - Huffington Post

A collection of non-profits working with HUD is promising to spend $4 billion on updating affordable housing across the country to be more sustainable.

October 27 - Grist

GOOD Magazine highlights designer Michael McDaniel's Reaction Housing System, a temporary shelter that can be stacked up and loaded onto a flatbed 20 at a time.

October 27 - GOOD Magazine

Robert McCartney reports on the coming onslaught of toll roads in the D.C. area, and the possibility of a 'vehicle miles traveled' option in the future.

October 27 - The Washington Post

The National Academy of Science has released a report showing that health effects from burning fossil fuels cost the economy about $120 billion a year. Global warming was not included due to uncertainty, so it's focused mostly on air pollution.

October 27 - The New York Times - Environment

Nairobi planners are promoting a new vision of the African nation criss-crossed with superhighways. Enrique Penalosa visited Nairobi last week to try to persuade them to reverse course.

October 27 - Daily Nation