The Daily Source of Urban Planning News
The Planners: A New TV Series About Planners in the UK
<p>BBC One has commissioned The Planners, a fiery, funny and touching new fly-on-the-wall documentary series that will give viewers a unique glimpse inside some of Britain's local planning authorities.</p>
Rome Recreated
<p>Researchers at UCLA and the University of Virginia have developed the largest and most complete virtual reality simulation of a historic city ever created -- Rome in AD 320.</p>
Urban Green Space Threatened By Higher Density?
<p>New regulations requiring higher density housing have some worried about the threat to urban green space in the UK.</p>
Manhattan Neighborhood Transformed By High Rises
<p>Two towers climbing hundreds of feet high above the rest of the neighborhood has some Upper West Side residents upset about the resulting transformation of their community.</p>
Historic Designations Hindering New Orleans Rebuilding
<p>As low-income residents in New Orleans begin to rebuild their homes, historic regulations are disrupting the process and driving up costs.</p>
Will A Nicer Station Encourage Transit Use?
<p>Transit officials in the UK hope a redesign of a transit station will help lure motorists to public transit.</p>
EPA Bullseye: Smart Growth Targets Big Builders
<p>The US EPA is directing educational and research efforts that explain (among other things) the financial benefits of smart growth directly to the nation's largest homebuilders and developers.</p>
Longest Land Tunnel Cuts Train Travel Times
<p>A 21-mile over-land tunnel has opened in Switzerland, running underneath the Swiss Alps and dramatically reducing the travel times for newly opened high-speed trains connecting Germany, France, and Italy.</p>
FEATURE
L.A.'s One Way Proposal Goes The Wrong Way
While there's no doubt Los Angeles has a traffic problem, it would be a mistake to put congestion relief over neighborhood revitalization.
Panhandling Becomes A Crime In Minneapolis
<p>The Minneapolis City Council has approved a measure to crack down on panhandling.</p>
Denver's FasTracks Program Moves Toward Privatization
<p>To deal with the escalating costs of its FasTracks program, Denver is looking for private bids to save money.</p>
Getting College Students To Stay And Put Down Roots
<p>Pennsylvania attracts more college students than any other state. Now officials are trying to figure out how to have the economy benefit further by getting them to stay after graduation.</p>
Following in The Footsteps Of Chinatown
<p>From Thai Towns to Little Ethiopias, cultural and ethnically-themed neighborhoods are increasingly sought by cities to lure economic activity and residents.</p>
Historic Preservation Is Environmentally Friendly, Too
<p>Saving and reusing older buildings converses resources on top of preserving a communities historic character.</p>
For Hong Kong, Street Markets Are In The Past
<p>While neighborhood farmer's markets are all the rage in the U.S., redevelopment officials in Hong Kong are making plans to raze of the city's oldest open-air food markets -- which is falling victim to gentrification.</p>
Big Box Stores Fuel Chicago Retail Boom
<p>Despite efforts to limit big box retailers in the city, Chicago is riding a new wave of retail spending at the likes of Target and Wal-Mart -- though smaller local retailers are also sharing in the boom.</p>
Census Figures Show More People Commuting Alone
<p>Despite rising gas prices, more people are commuting to work alone, the amount of carpoolers has dropped, and no increase has been seen in the percentage of Americans who use public transit, according to recent figures from the U.S. Census Bureau.</p>
Multiple-Choice Property Tax
<p>In what may be a first for the U.S., the state of Florida is proposing a plan to offer property owners a choice between two ways of calculating property taxes.</p>
Bringing People To Downtown To Spur Development
<p>Rather than investing in new downtown development projects and hoping for people to come, Fort Worth, Texas, is trying to attract more residents downtown with street fairs and events, building a customer base for any future development.</p>
Historic Brooklyn Waterfront Declared 'Endangered'
<p>Plans for development have threatened the historic industrial buildings along Brooklyn's waterfront in recent years. Now, the National Trust for Historic Preservation has declared the waterfront one of the nation's most endangered historic places.</p>
Smith Gee Studio
City of Charlotte
City of Camden Redevelopment Agency
City of Astoria
Transportation Research & Education Center (TREC) at Portland State University
US High Speed Rail Association
City of Camden Redevelopment Agency
Municipality of Princeton (NJ)
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