The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Sandy Springs, GA, is undertaking a bold experiment to outsource city administration to the private sector.

September 22 - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

BLOG POST

…here comes Joomla. There was a lot of uncertainty about the future of the Content Management System Mambo over the past months. Finally the Developers now left Mambo and started Joomla.<br /> <br /> As <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1851367,00.asp">this article in eWeek</a> points out, "the original owners [Miro], wanted to regain control of the project. The developers, realizing that they were being cut out of executive management, decided to take the code and run…”<br /> <br /> The outcomes might describe the state of open source today.

September 22 - Ken Snyder

Industrial owners and brokers are scrambling to find space for tenants in post-Katrina New Orleans.

September 22 - The Slatin Report

Can big business maintain local values, even as national and international conglomerates swallow up hometown companies?

September 22 - Governing.com: 13th Floor

In his irreverent new book, journalist John Dicker reveals the super-high social costs of Wal-Mart's super-low prices.

September 22 - AlterNet

There are three basic needs that must be met in order for New Orleans to come back -- the city's infrastructure, reviving its economy and resettling its population.

September 22 - The Los Angeles Times

New Orleans was a deeply flawed city before Katrina, and now, evacuees are stating they won't move back unless changes are made.

September 22 - USA Today

Los Angeles is testing out new 'smart' parking meters that use credit or ATM cards as payment and remind you to pay via text messaging.

September 22 - The Los Angeles Times

With more than half of the city still underwater, smart-growth experts say now's an ideal time to rethink the entire infrastructure of the city.

September 22 - Montgomery Advertiser

Over 200,000 people without cars in New Orleans had no way out of the city in Katrina's wake.

September 22 - AlterNet

Shaping high density residential environments is the most important issue before urban designers in North America today.

September 22 - ArchNewsNow

Planned Brooklyn waterfront park draws criticism from neighborhood groups.

September 21 - The New York Times

While local developers and city leaders reject the idea, Sherman Lewis, professor emeritus at California State University, East Bay, continues to advocate for a pedestrian-friendly development of 1,000 residences in Hayward, CA.

September 21 - The Argus

In banishing the Marshall Fields name, Federated Department Stores is just doing to Chicago what's its already done to cities across the country. The implications are anything but positive, writes Lynn Becker.

September 21 - Repeat

FEATURE

September 21 - Thomas J. Campanella

Hurricane Katrina exposes the urgent need to fix America’s obsolete way of life.

September 21 - Elm Street Writers Group

This paper examines failures in Hurricane Katrina disaster response and their lessons for transportation policy and planning in other communities.

September 21 - Victoria Transport Policy Institute

FEATURE

Bob Ransford reviews the magical and often paradoxical relationship Vancouver shares with its natural surroundings as described in Lance Berelowitz's Dream City: Vancouver and the Global Imagination.

September 21 - Bob Ransford

The most striking fact of the New Orleans catastrophe has received less notice than it deserves: The plan for New Orleans in case of a hit from a very powerful hurricane was to lose the city.

September 21 - Reason Magazine

Rhode Island Department of Education promotes 'Smart Growth' principles in School Facilities Planning Guidelines.

September 21 - Grow Smart Rhode Island website