The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Steven Johnson examines how officials in New York and other cities can leverage information collected from public call centers to build better cities.

November 5 - Wired

Jonna McKone looks at how Hispanics are transforming urban spaces and how city planning and transportation policies respond.

November 4 - TheCityFix

"Landscape Urbanism," a school of thought that argues that landscape and natural forms are more capable of shaping cities than architecture, is gaining ground in the U.S. Andrés Duany reports that to his dismay, it's also taking over Harvard.

November 4 - Metropolis Magazine

U.S. Environmentalists say that despite a Republican rout in the recent election, the rejection by voters of California's Prop. 23 (which would have suspended enviro regulation if unemployment was over 5.5%) shows that wasn't the issue.

November 4 - The Christian Science Monitor

Kiran Stacy looks at some of the challenges facing what is intended to be the world's first carbon-neutral city.

November 4 - Financial Times

The recently retired Don Waldie, an impassioned observer and critic of metropolitan Los Angeles, spent his career finding ways for residents to participate to the civic process.

November 4 - The Planning Report

Two major projects underway in Kansas City will make a significant impact on the city's downtown and skyline, but problems with one may delay its completion.

November 4 - The Architect's Newspaper

A group of West End business owners plans to direct slower moving foot traffic to walk along storefronts.

November 4 - The Wall Street Journal

A six month trial will bring Wi-Fi Internet access into test locations within the London tube system, part of an effort by the city to bring Internet access to the entire system in time for the 2012 Summer Olympics.

November 4 - BBC

103 artists form around the world have unveiled a massive collection of murals in New York City. But they're underground in abandoned subways stations, and you can't go see them.

November 4 - The New York Times

<em>Next American City</em> talks with urban designer Mike Lydon about opening streets to people and closing streets to cars in this second of a two-part conversation.

November 4 - Next American City

Remember that cutting-edge bus that straddles traffic built by the Chinese earlier this year? Dakota Smith at Curbed LA found an LA architect that proposed the entire idea back in 1969.

November 3 - Curbed LA

For Halloween, a group of designers from Steven Holl turned their favorite architects into jack-o-lanterns.

November 3 - The New York Observer

High Speed Rail, regardless of how glamorous it appears to be, is nothing but a waste of money in the U.S., claims Robert Samuelson. If states want HSR, let them build it themselves without federal subsidy, he concludes as there is no national gain.

November 3 - Newsweek

The new initiative from the city's Department of Transportation and Police Department will target speeding and failure-to-yield violations, including rogue cyclists.

November 3 - Streetsblog

A new report sheds major doubt on some of the emerging Chinese cities' abilities to grow in a sustainable manner.

November 3 - Reuters

Aerotropolises are cities that develop around airports into vibrant centers of business and residences. The Boston area had a chance to make one, but the city and state missed out, according to this column.

November 3 - The Boston Globe

Officials in Cambodia are hoping to capitalize on tourists' interest in the killing fields of the Khmer Rouge regime with a proposed theme park.

November 3 - The Atlantic

As result of climate change, dwindling resources and shifting demographics, a new economic powerhouse is likely to emerge in the arctic by mid-century, according to the new book "The World in 2050".

November 3 - Seed

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is urging for golf courses to be expropriated for other uses, and calling on citizens to make use of abandoned land.

November 3 - Bloomberg