The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

San Jose hosts the 4th Podcar Conference, Oct 27-29, part of San Jose's Green Vision.

September 21 - New York Times

Researchers in Europe are experimenting with a new kind of traffic light that better responds to traffic by monitoring the actual amount of cars on the road and estimating how long lights should stay green.

September 21 - Gizmag

A decommissioned naval base in Concord, California, is moving steadily towards redevelopment as a mixed use community. But who will own the redeveloped base is still undecided.

September 21 - The San Jose Mercury News

A new report from the Department of Housing and Urban Development finds that the median price of rental housing in New Orleans has risen from $662 in 2004 to $882 today.

September 21 - Next American City

Columnist Neal Peirce throws his weight behind the Obama Infrastructure Bank proposal.

September 21 - Citiwire

The city of Indianapolis is using its hosting duties for the 2012 Super Bowl to rework one of its main streets into a new public space.

September 21 - The Architect's Newspaper

A short documentary exploring the development challenges that the City of Ventura faces.

September 20 - The OpenSpace: News For Central Coast Planners

In this review of the new book "The Trouble with City Planning", Joe Berridge finds that maybe the great thing about planning is its ability to deal with all its contradictions.

September 20 - The Globe and Mail

Cyclists who disobey traffic laws are the No. 1 police complaint among residents of Manhattan's Upper East Side. Could the built environment be the real culprit?

September 20 - New Urban Network

Locals in Walnut Creek are up in arms over a proposed In-N-Out Burger. Columnist Tom Barnidge says that while "provincialism often is the catalyst for complaint," there is reason to protest in this case.

September 20 - Contra Costa Times

Mary Newsom reviews a new book on New York City by Roberta Brandez Gratz, and finds lessons that cross borders even into her very different city of Charlotte.

September 20 - The Charlotte Observer

FEATURE

With "brownfield" (former industrial or commercial sites) development on the rise, it is essential for planners to have a clear process for approaching this tricky development type, say Justin B. Hollander, Niall G. Kirkwood and Julia L. Gold.

September 20 - Justin B. Hollander

Developers on Long Island are hoping to build transit-oriented developments as a way of keeping young residents on the island and increasing the amount of affordable housing. But some local opposition is standing in the way.

September 20 - The New York Times

Writing in <em>The New York Times</em>, Geoff Manaugh looks at Christoph Gielen's aerial photography of urban development and sprawl.

September 20 - The New York Times

With three transit stations nearby and ready-made commuters, this DC/Maryland suburb is ripe for development.

September 20 - New Urban Network

The man behind the plan? Danish urbanist Jan Gehl has been quietly working behind the scenes on New York's transformation to pedestrian paradise.

September 20 - Capital New York

The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) begins a two-year tryout of new parking technologies.

September 20 - New Urban Network

Grist digs deeper into the Virginia Speed Hump murder - showing how the street configuration of the suburban neighborhood may have contributed to the rage, and why it's unlikely to see more neighborhoods like it in the future.

September 20 - Grist

Governor Chris Christie's moratorium on new contracts may signal trouble even though construction is underway.

September 20 - the transport politic

Las Vegas columnist Scott Dickensheets turns to Tufts planning professor Justin Hollander to ask what Sin City should do to combat plummeting home values and draining population.

September 20 - Las Vegas Sun