The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Andrew Altman, former D.C. Director of Planning, describes how he and Mayor Williams used planning as the catalyst for D.C.'s revival.

October 31 - The Planning Report

The Boston Museum Project will occupy a full block on the emerging Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway, and will be a center for residents and visitors interested in Massachusetts's rich history.

October 31 - The Boston Globe

Anaheim, CA, home of Disneyland, follows the lead of Philadelphia, and selects EarthLink, Inc. to build a 50-square-mile municipal WiFi network.

October 31 - Government Computer News

Developer plans to replace a 14 square mile subsistance farm run by an organization of immigrants with a factory warehouse.

October 31 - The Daily Trojan

Wal-Mart's CEO recognizes that zoninig laws will becoming increasingly less friendly to supercenters, and so plans to ramp up expansion with plans to open between 550-600 stores in the upcoming year.

October 31 - CNN Money

A $17 million cut in funding could imperil critical source of planning information.

October 31 - Washington Post

FEATURE

Two months after Katrina, what have we learned? Graham Stroh analyzes Katrina's disaster management lessons on law enforcement, communication and social infrastructure.

October 31 - Graham Stroh

Grist Magazine asks a motley crew of movers and shakers to put on their thinking caps and answer the question.

October 31 - Grist Magazine

The idea that limiting sprawl leads to a scarcity of homes and increased home prices just doesn't hold up, according to new research from California State University at Sacramento.

October 31 - California State University at Sacramento

200 urban designers from around the world work to replan Missisippi coast.

October 30 - INTBAU News

Every American city wants to improve its schools. Although few communities are satisfied with the progress they are making, there are some signs of encouragement.

October 30 - Smart City Radio

Expansion of greenfield development in rural parts of Ada County, Idaho, is cause for concern among some public sector policymakers like Boise's Mayor David Bieter.

October 30 - The Idaho Statesman

Four students of Auburn University's Architecture Program designed and built the Newburn, AL fire station at a fraction of its projected cost.

October 30 - The Birmingham News

Electrified truck stops are a major tool in the battle against particulate pollution from diesel engines. In California, the Air Resources Board has just outlawed overnight idling, effective 2008.

October 30 - The New York Times

With Houston as a case study, Michael Lewyn argues that overregulation creates automobile-dependent urban form.

October 29 - Wayne Law Review

Emir Kusturica, independent film-maker, writer, and director, has been awarded this year's Phillipe Rotthier Prize for Architecture for Reconstruction of the European City.

October 29 - INTBAU News

FabPreFab magazine interviews the architects at Marmol Radziner Prefab about their new steel homes product line, called The Desert House. [Includees photos]

October 29 - Fab PreFab

Los Angeles' new mayor plans to propose an 'unprecedented investment in housing' for consideration by voters. The measure would likely give planners more more power to increase density in the city.

October 29 - The Los Angeles Times

Information technology is finally trickling into rural india but faces major hurdles of inadequate infrastructure, content and usability.

October 29 - BBC News World Edition

As San Francisco's Mission Bay and other eastern areas sees a burst of new housing and other development, housing activists see massive displacement, especially of African-American residents and businesses.

October 28 - The San Francisco Bay Guardian