The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>With skyscrapers in Dubai and around the world pushing ever higher, engineers are introducing new elevators that save space and reduce waiting times.</p>

November 6 - ITP Business

<p>A property-rights backlash appears to be building across the country as a direct result of the Supreme Court's Kelo v. City of New London decision, writes the WSJ on their editorial page.</p>

November 6 - The Wall Street Journal

<p>33 transportation-related ballot measures worth more than $55 billion face voters this election.</p>

November 6 - Center For Transportation Excellence

<p>A team in Durango, Colorado, uses Google Earth to visualize the city's preferred development scenario, and produces an YouTube instructional video.</p>

November 6 - City of Durango

FEATURE

As part of monthly series, we present a summary and analysis of some of the most interesting news to appear on Planetizen over the month of October 2006. This is the transcript of an audio segment that originally aired on the nationally syndicated radio program "Smart City".

November 6 - Nate Berg

<p>As its first residential subdivision is approved, developers are banking that the tiny town of Hebron, Illinois, will be the location for the next wave of Chicago's suburban growth.</p>

November 6 - The Chicago Tribune

<p>An environmentally remediated parcel of land in a hard-knock New England town finds new life as the nation's largest solar energy field.</p>

November 6 - Grist

<p>While still dogged by its tawdry and crime-ridden reputation, London's East Side is booming with nightlife and vibrant neighborhoods. More big redevelopment plans underway as the city begins to prepare for the 2012 Olympics.</p>

November 5 - The Sydney Morning Herald

<p>Campus Partners for Community Urban Redevelopment, a non-profit development group funded by the endowment fund of The Ohio State University, is learning that its intial ambitious plans to revive the local neighborhood while generating returns for the university were unrealistic.</p>

November 5 - The Columbus Dispatch

<p>A recent op-ed bemoans the state of Atlanta's traffic congestion, and calls a reversal of current road widening policies, which have done little to help solve the region's transportation woes.</p>

November 5 - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

<p>Architects, builders and preservationists met in Pittsburgh to discuss ways to get federal guidelines for historic structures to play nice with green building principles.</p>

November 5 - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

<p>If residents in Boulder Co. pass a 'carbon tax' ballot measure next week, hundreds of thousands of dollars will be made available to fund renewable energy and conservation measures.</p>

November 5 - USA Today

<p>The city's council chooses to proceed with plans for a new light rail system -- with a possible price tag of over $5 billion dollars.</p>

November 4 - Honolulu Star-Bulletin

<p>Broward County, Florida, is considering a plan to reduce a growing demand on Everglades water by replenishing groundwater with treated sewage. The plan is generating outcry from environmentalists who worry the sewage won't be treated enough.</p>

November 4 - Sun-Sentinel

<p>In this interview, Author Steven Johnson discusses his lates book about London's Cholera outbreak, urban planning, and his fascination with the popular computer game, SimCity.</p>

November 4 - Salon

<p>The recent opening of Whole Foods in downtown Seattle highlights the challenges of attracting major grocery stores to the urban core.</p>

November 4 - The Seattle Times

<p>A new report from the Brookings Institution looks at policy innovations that can help revive the fortunes of the nation's former industrial powerhouse.</p>

November 4 - The Brookings Institution

<p>Inga Saffron, the Philadelphia Inquirer's architecture critic, loathes the city's 'let's make a deal' approach to urban planning.</p>

November 3 - Skyline Online

<p>This opinion piece from the <em>Toronto Star</em> looks at how the organizational operation of Toronto is preventing it from becoming a more urban city.</p>

November 3 - The Toronto Star

<p>In 2004, Oregonians passed Measure 37, which gave zoning waivers to longtime property owners. With voters in several other states facing similar measures, a recently released poll shows that most Oregon voters now oppose Measure 37.</p>

November 3 - Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund