The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

A developer proposes to extend a voter-approved Urban Growth Boundary in Livermore, CA, using green building, specifically solar power, as an enticement to gain voter support for their initiative. Environmental organizations galvanize to oppose it.

October 24 - San Jose Mercury News

FEATURE

What are the necessary ingredients for successful Transit Oriented Development (TOD)? Bruce Liedstrand, Planner for Liedstrand Associates, lists the ten fundamental, common-sense elements of TOD.

October 24 - Bruce Liedstrand

Salisbury, Massachusetts is considering a zoning change that would improve walkability, allow for more residential units, and help expand businesses in Salisbury Square.

October 24 - The Boston Globe

The Russian town of Rublyovo-Arkhangelskoye will focus on attracting 30,000 of the country's wealthiest residents.

October 24 - BBC News

The ranch house has come to symbolize residential architecture in American between 1945 and 1970. And the ranch house is hip again.

October 23 - The Los Angeles Times

The Las Vegas Review-Journal, citing a study by Randal O'Toole, calls the proposed multi-billion-dollar light rail line from Henderson to North Las Vegas a 'white elephant'.

October 23 - Las Vegas Review-Journal

Investigators find a series of flaws at every level in the 'conception, design, construction and maintenance' of New Orleans' levee system.

October 23 - The Los Angeles Times

Churches and their parking lots dominate some East Side neighborhoods. It's a mixed blessing at best.

October 23 - The Cleveland Free Times

An editorial sifts through the differences between Integrated Waste Management and Zero Waste.

October 23 - GreenBiz

Wal-Mart CEO announces that the world's largest retailer will hold its suppliers responsible for higher environmental and labor standards.

October 22 - The Washington Post

Analysis of new satellite imagery shows that the Amazon rainforest is disappearing at double the rate of previous estimates.

October 22 - Guardian UK

Growth debate in Idaho centers on property taxes, impact fees and possibly new legislation.

October 22 - The Idaho Statesman

To the dismay of the residents of Udaipur, India, "land sharks" have been taking over the dry beds of the city's famous lakes and developing them.

October 22 - NDTV.com

The University of Calgary’s Transportation Action Group uses abandoned bikes for a free campus-wide community bicycle program.

October 22 - Pinkbike

Philadelphia's Yorktown neighborhood, once an experiment in marketing to middle-class African Americans, continues to mean home to its residents as it nears the half-century mark.

October 21 - The Philadelphia Inquirer

One of Milwaukee's most successful brownfield reclamation projects is now facing the questions of how much housing is too much, and how dense is too dense.

October 21 - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

New standards by Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND) reward developers who build in the right places.

October 21 - Michigan Land Use Institute

Transit ridership has increased across the country with the rise in gas prices. If the price of gas falls, will transit ridership fall too?

October 21 - MSN Money

In the last of his five-part series, columnist Steve Lopez examines the jarring juxtaposition of rapidly-gentrifying luxury lofts that overlook prostitutes, drug dealers and homeless on LA's skid row.

October 21 - The Los Angeles Times

How did Santana Row, a controversial San Jose development criticized for being "fake" and "Disneyland North," turn into a real neighborhood?

October 21 - San Jose Mercury News