The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Road construction projects and new subdivisions are keeping digital mapping companies busy updating their navigation products.

July 13 - The New York Times

In the begining there was the duty-free shop. These days, though, airports contain a multitude of shopping, dining, and entertainment options, essentially doubling as a suburban mall.

July 13 - The Next American City

Proposed tax hikes in San Francisco could hurt the region's smart growth efforts by encouraging businesses to move out of the center city.

July 13 - The San Francisco Chronicle

Supporters and opponents of the controversial proposal are preparing for a major campaign in the fall.

July 13 - The Seattle Times

After touring Seaside, Florida, a New Zealand developer is taking inspiration back home and developing two master-planned communities with garden parks and communal areas. Plans are underway to bring New Urbanism to New Zealand.

July 13 - The New Zealand Herald

With the largest dairy herds in the U.S., California could generate up to 5% of its natural gas from cow manure.

July 13 - The San Francisco Chronicle

The quaint lumber company town of Scotia, California, fears a merger with its slightly larger, but economically-depressed neighbor across the river.

July 12 - The New York Times

Seven bombs exploded on Mumbai's commuter rail system, the lifeline of the world's fifth most populous metro area. These bombings are the lastest in a decade of terrorist attacks on mass transit around the world.

July 12 - The Seattle Post-Intelligencer

A University of South Florida professor predicts that a hurricane with similar intensity as Katrina would cause even greater devastation to Tampa Bay than was experienced by New Orleans in 2005.

July 12 - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Sacramento's MPO thinks it's time to re-establish the old link between public health and city planning. But is smart growth really healthier? And whose responsibility is it to build healthy cities anyways?

July 12 - The Next American City

As the country's housing preferences shift from the widely spread to the urban and dense, the prevalence of transit-oriented development planning increases.

July 12 - Smart Growth Online

With residential development booming, Vancouver officials are concerned that the downtown is losing its commercial vitality.

July 12 - Governing

As part of a larger, worldwide series, Guardian's architecture critic Dejan Sudjik writes about grand plans for Detroit's turnaround.

July 12 - BBC News

Robert Bruegmann, author of "Sprawl: A Compact History," writes that traffic congestion is caused not by sprawl but by misconceptions about sprawl.

July 12 - The Los Angeles Times

Every day 1,500 new homes rise along the U.S. coastline. National Geographic asks, "Are America's coastlines are in danger of being loved to death?"

July 12 - National Geographic

The South African government has unveiled a new plan to spread its industrial development -- and the jobs it provides -- to poor regions in the country.

July 12 - Business Day

Architect Teddy Cruz shares his philosophy on architectural and urban planning solutions for the problems that proliferate in international border zones.

July 12 - Architecture Radio

A Los Angeles Times special report looks at California's crumbling highway system and identifies the state's worst roads.

July 11 - The Los Angeles Times

Former journalist Anthony Flint discusses his new book, which chronicle of the fledgling smart-growth movement and the challenges it faces. Some see Flint as a moderate voice in the highly-charged debate.

July 11 - Grist Magazine

Architects, artists, urban planners, developers, designers and historians comment on the world's formerly most livable city, why it's lost the title and how to can reclaim it.

July 11 - The Age