The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Recent announcements from big box retailers withdrawing or delaying plans to build stores in the city have given pause to supporters of controversial living wage ordinance, with some considering withdrawing their support.

August 18 - The Wall Street Journal

Philadelphia's bold approach to stormwater management could be a model for other cities.

August 18 - The Washington Post Writers Group

Local residents of rural Palm Beach County learned how growth management laws and grass-roots opposition to a 10,000 unit major development can be trumped by lobbyists in the state capital.

August 18 - Sun-Sentinel

Benjamin Ross discuss highway expansions, lexus lanes, and congestion charging as he refutes conservative "free-market fundamentalists" such as Wendell Cox, Randal O'Toole, Peter Gordon, and Sam Staley.

August 18 - Dissent

Plan would offer businesses a financial incentive to cut emissions.

August 18 - ABC Australia

Residents in Passaic County, New Jersey, have assumed the power of urban re-design, as community charrettes from early 2006 have resulted in county grants of $164,000 to revitalize numerous main streets in the county.

August 18 - The North Jersey Record

New data from the 2005 American Community Survey reveals new insights into a changing America, including a shifting immigration pattern that reaches into parts of the United States that have heretofore been untouched by demographic change.

August 18 - The New York Times

A blog releases a document it claims is a secret "new urban planning vision for New York City" developed by the consulting firm of Alex Garvin and Associates.

August 17 - Streetsblog

With 2,053 downtown units under construction, the Minneapolis condominium market begins to deflate.

August 17 - Star Tribune

Neal Peirce favors a radical rethinking of how we generate and distribute energy.

August 17 - The Washington Post Writers Group

In a Detroit suburb, a councilwoman is charged with assault and battery after a physical altercation escalates between two elected officials during a council hearing to discuss a variance.

August 17 - The New York Times

A review of the book "The Tenants of East Harlem" by Russell Sharman.

August 17 - BeyondChron

The successful New Urbanist town of New Town in St. Charles, Missouri, is looking for a farmer for its organic farm.

August 17 - STLtoday.com

A reports suggests that U.S. has reached a point whereby mobility trends, socio-demographic conditions and travel behavior will result in changes to annual "vehicle miles of travel" (VMT) growth.

August 17 - U.S. Department Of Transportation

This <em>Times of London</em> opinion piece calls for planners and architects with a true vision to get back in control of city planning. The author argues that "it is the developers who produce the master plans, and the city that responds to them."

August 17 - Times of London

A new report looks at the relationship between the built environment and public health. This report identifies how development can affect public health, while providing advice for improving public health through changes in development patterns.

August 17 - The Congress for the New Urbanism

Boise meets Seattle Mayor's Challenge to take local action on global warming.

August 17 - The Idaho Statesman

A recent column calls on the city’s residents to come together to develop a 100-year plan to keep the 'Emerald City' green and livable.

August 16 - The Seattle Times

Despair and poverty is driving Indian farmers to commit suicide in large numbers.

August 16 - The Los Angeles Times

Faux finials and bogus balconies are just a few of the unsightly details defacing some newer buildings in Milwaukee.

August 16 - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel