The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Several prominent institutions in New Orleans are to benefit from the generosity of Qatar and other Persian Gulf States.

May 4 - The New York Times

A new study shows that there is no discrepancy between warming rates on the earth's surface and in the upper atmosphere, resolving an uncertainty about global warming.

May 4 - The New York Times

Tired of congestion and looming water shortages in the central city, the government has approved plans to develop two new ring roads around Bangalore. The roads are intended to trigger growth of five new satellite towns, all in the next three years.

May 4 - The Hindu

How has American architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning responded to the need to design secure public spaces and buildings in the post-9/11 era?

May 3 - BusinessWeek

Most people think of nature and cities as separate. According to a new Urban and natural environments are not necessarily conflicting notions but must be integrated at many different scales, for sustainable, healthy settlements to occur.

May 3 - The Toronto Star

Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) and the Canada Council for the Arts announce the Governor-General's Medals in Architecture.

May 3 - The Globe and Mail

To fund a week-long charrette with over 40 architects, planners, and engineers, New Urbanism founder Andres Duany chipped in $150,000 of his own money. As a result, one neighborhood is much further along in the planning process than its counterparts.

May 3 - The Wall Street Journal

A team of researchers use satellite data to create a grid of 8.7 billion data cells tracking the evolution of land use in the continental United States. The findings are surprising

May 3 - TerraDaily

Democratic Governor Jennifer Granholm works with Republicans to break new ground on funding public transportation.

May 3 - Michigan Land Use Institute

Columnist John Tierney takes a bipartisan swipe at federal responses to $3 gallon gasoline. He suggests a "revenue-neutral gas tax" whereby the tax paid at the pump would be returned to the taxpayers as "something that works".

May 3 - The New York Times

Canada's new Conservative government tabled its budget yesterday, and with it reversed the previous government's commitment to the Kyoto Protocol.

May 3 - The Washington Post

A law firm renovates the interior of an historic Louis Sullivan building in Buffalo.

May 3 - Buffalo Rising

Architectural styles, affordability, convenience, walkability, and economic development are the foci of this "Main Street" event.

May 3 - Louisville Courier-Journal

Weakened rent stabilization laws help landlords evict market-rate tenants. In Manhattan, more than 7,000 apartments are slated for conversion.

May 3 - The New York Times

BLOG POST

Next weekend -- that'd be May 6-7 -- a bunch of GPS geeks are going to map the entire Isle of Wight, off England. Not much on the Isle, apparently, but whatever's there is gonna get mapped. Says the <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/2006/05/gps-island.html"><em>New Scientist</em> blog</a>:<br /> <br /> <blockquote>These high-tech cartographers will drive, cycle and ramble all over the island, using their GPS receivers to record the co-ordinates of roads, natural landmarks and points of interest. They'll use this data to create a completely digital map which will be available online to anyone.</blockquote>

May 2 - Anonymous

Columnists Roger K. Lewis looks at the profession of landscape architecture today.

May 2 - Abhijeet Chavan

Grist interviews retiring Republican environmental leader Sherwood Boehlert.

May 2 - Grist Magazine

Both political parties are to blame for the nation's energy crisis, writes Ronald Brownstein.

May 2 - The Los Angeles Times

Churches in New York, Chicago, and Washington, D.C, are selling land and air development rights to provide major funding for outreach programs.

May 2 - The Washington Post

Ronald Bailey believes free markets will address the world's oil supply problem.

May 2 - Reason