The Daily Source of Urban Planning News
Private Island To Become a Part of New York City
<p>The last privately held island in the East River has been transferred to the City of New York using a combination of public and private funds.</p>
Housing Crawls Back Into New Orleans
<p>A mixed-income housing project is one of a handful of housing complexes taking form in New Orleans, where housing availability has been slow to recover to pre-Katrina levels.</p>
Developing The Least Developed
<p>Western planners and architects have drafted a broad master plan for Kigali, the capital of Rwanda -- one of the least developed nations in the world.</p>
Fighting Wildfires With Land Use Laws
<p>More than controlled burns or flying water tankers, zoning could be the firefighters most powerful tool.</p>
Green Projects Allay Second Home Buyers' Guilt
<p>Developers seek to use the environmental friendliness of their projects to lure second home buyers who may be struggling with the guilt of buying another home and increasing their environmental footprint.</p>
Australian Urban Renewal Efforts Please Investors And Officials
<p>High returns on investments for housing developments in struggling and stagnant Australian city suburbs are helping to convince both developers and public officials to continue the outer-urban renewal efforts.</p>
Final And Most Dire UN Agency Report On Climate Change Released
<p>The UN agency assigned to climate change known as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that shared a Nobel Prize with former VP Al Gore has issued its final report - and the news is worse than initially thought. Will the world react in time?</p>
L.A. Is King Of Traffic Congestion, Dumb Growth
<p>People who drive in L.A. have a lot of time to think about the urban form while they sit in traffic. Specifically, they wonder why everything in Southern California requires a trip in the car.</p>
"Foreclosure Clusters" Bring Inner-City Crime to the Suburbs
<p>The burgeoning increase in foreclosures is leaving some suburban California neighborhoods with multiple abandoned and unguarded homes, which become tempting targets for looters, vandals and thieves.</p>
Highway Tolling Bill Up For Consideration In Washington
<p>Seeking a way to fund the state's many transit and transportation projects, officials in Washington are considering a plan that would put a highway tolling bill in front of the state legislature early next year -- a bill many believe would pass.</p>
Canada's Municipal Infrastructure 'Near Collapse'
<p>A new report warns that Canada's municipal infrastructure, much of it many decades old, is in urgent need of investment and upgrading.</p>
Baghdad's Babysteps Back To Normality
<p>City life edges back towards normalisty in Baghdad where residents are noticing improvements in security and lower rates of violence. More people are traveling across the city and staying out at night, and even the liquor stores are opening back up.</p>
Enabling Retirees To Stay Put
<p>Retirees are less inclined to move out of their homes as they ages, so a cooperative group in Connecticut is creating a network amongst retirees and service providers to enable people to stay put.</p>
First Leg Of Second Ave Subway Receives $1.3 Billion In Federal Funds
<p>The first (of four) phases of the infamous Second Ave. subway is ready to begin construction thanks to the approval of $1.3 billion in federal financing, enabling the long-delayed line to be built from 92nd to 63rd streets in Manhattan.</p>
Carbon-Coughing Dubai Leans Toward Green
<p>Development is booming in Dubai -- so much so that its pace is causing concerns about carbon emissions. In response, numerous green efforts have been launched to bring sustainability into the planning and design process.</p>
New York And Berlin In Parallel
<p>The development patterns of New York and Berlin have some striking similarities, according to a new exhibition looking at the circumstances influencing each of the cities.</p>
High Prices Pushing More Marylanders Out
<p>Maryland residents are being pushed farther and farther away from Washington D.C. due to rising house prices.</p>
BLOG POST
Smart Growth Safety Benefits
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left">Many families move to sprawled, automobile-dependent suburbs because they want a safe place to raise their children. They are mistaken. A smart growth community is actually a much safer and healthier place to live overall.</p>
Cities Consider Forming Own Agencies After Metro Transit Funding Measure Fails
<p>A measure that would have increased funding for Milwaukee-area commuter transit was recently voted down, fueling a push for neighboring cities to break away and form their own transit agencies.</p>
Transit Riders Challenge Edmonton City Councillors To Take The Bus
<p>The Transit Riders' Union of Edmonton has challenged city councilors in Edmonton, Alberta to give up their private vehicles. Four councilors will rely exclusively on public transit for the next week.</p>
City of Moorpark
City of Tustin
City of Camden Redevelopment Agency
City of Astoria
Transportation Research & Education Center (TREC) at Portland State University
Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada
Toledo-Lucas County Plan Commissions
Urban Design for Planners 1: Software Tools
This six-course series explores essential urban design concepts using open source software and equips planners with the tools they need to participate fully in the urban design process.
Planning for Universal Design
Learn the tools for implementing Universal Design in planning regulations.
