The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>A former New York corporate lawyer turned developer is pouring his love for historic and human scaled urbanism into the city's neglected core.</p>

January 24 - The Boston Globe

<p>This report from <em>National Public Radio</em> discusses ideas for placing control of federally-funded Amtrak into the hands of a federal-state partnership. Many feel funding for rail should be de-nationalized and governed by regional bodies.</p>

January 24 - NPR

<p>The planning and placement of schools is making students 'auto-dependent', according to an urban planning academic in Canada. Others also bemoan the architectural design of schools and the potentially harmful building materials used to build them.</p>

January 24 - The Globe and Mail

<p>Commissioners in Ada County, Idaho declare planner's private contract with adjacent county violated county ethics statute.</p>

January 24 - The Idaho Statesman

<p>Though they serve over half of all U.S. college undergrads, two-year institutions have typically focused more on getting students to enroll rather than helping them reach their career goals. But that attitude is changing.</p>

January 24 - The Christian Science Monitor

<p>As more seniors and empty nesters seek to reclaim the downtown lifestyle of their youth, small towns across America are experiencing a second chance at economic vitality.</p>

January 24 - The New York Times

<p>Planning officials in Fayette County, Kentucky, have approved a plan that will not expand its boundary of growth. The planning commission also unanimously rejected the establishment of an 'urban reserve', in case minds changed about expansion.</p>

January 24 - Lexington Herald-Leader

<p>Planning and land use regulations are being blamed for Australia's high home prices, and also for the fact that four of its major cities are in a list of the 25 most unaffordable cities. Some feel planners are not planning with the people in mind.</p>

January 23 - The Age

<p>The national association of engineers sponsors a "Future City Competition' in which junior high school students design a city, based on the premise that toxic chemicals have rendered the planet uninhabitable.</p>

January 23 - The Arizona Republic

<p>After a $1.3 million campaign, residents of Pacifica, California rejected a developer's proposal for a new hotel, shopping center, and residential community master planned by Duany Plater-Zyberk. But the developer's not giving up yet.</p>

January 23 - Las Vegas Business Press

<p>A suburban Salt Lake City mayor has expressed interest in adding light rail to a list of desires for his city's long-term planning process. High costs and a low estimated demand are cited by opponents.</p>

January 23 - Deseret Morning News

<p>Architects and dictators have had a long and uneasy relationship throughout history.</p>

January 23 - Signandsight.com

<p>While most New Yorkers deem traffic congestion a serious problem, even more oppose congestion pricing in Manhattan as a strategy to lessen it, according to the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute survey released January 18.</p>

January 23 - AP via New York Post

<p>Preservationists are working to save the city's historic homes, under threat from Katrina victims who are interested in building modern housing.</p>

January 23 - The Los Angeles Times

<p>Nancy Solomon reports that due to increased demand Amtrak may increase service along urban lines in its northeast corridor.</p>

January 23 - National Public Radio

<p>Despite support for the plan and the amenities it provides for Inverness, some fear that Andres Duany's planned town of Tornagrain is not needed.</p>

January 23 - The Inverness Courier

<p>Mayor Tom Menino's proposal to move Boston City Hall to the south waterfront ignores the importance of the building's location, and the recent developments in downtown.</p>

January 23 - The Hartford Courant

<p>Recovery czar Ed Blakely lays out his five-point plan for the city's comeback as residents endorsed a plan for rebuilding the city's neighborhoods.</p>

January 23 - The Times Picayune

<p>New Urbanists are pushing for big changes to the International Traffic Engineers' thoroughfare design manual to help make roads more pedestrian-friendly.</p>

January 22 - New Urban News

<p>USC's Peter Gordon squares off against UCLA's Matthew Kahn in the Wall Street Journal's ECONBLOG to debate whether London's style of congestion pricing is the right answer for U.S. traffic.</p>

January 22 - The Wall Street Journal