The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Roxanne Quimby, who recently sold her Burt's Bees empire for $175 Million, has a vision for a world-class village green in one of Maine's most picturesque harbors.

September 1 - Portland Press Herald

Hundreds of millions in federal dollars originally intended to shore up levees and build pumping stations around New Orleans were diverted to the pay for the war in Iraq.

September 1 - Editor & Publisher

A profile of influential environmental architect William McDonough.

September 1 - The New York Times

The downtown living trend can only work as long as the jobs remain in the city.

September 1 - The Toronto Star

The nation's national parks will be destroyed by a secret draft revision of the national park system's basic management policies.

September 1 - The New York Times

More than 15 projects and 70,000 homes are in the works for Central Florida, which has some activists concerned about sprawl.

September 1 - The Orlando Sentinel

The Urban Land Institute is going nationwide with a program that should make it easier for smarth growth and new urban projects to win the governmental approvals thay need.

September 1 - New Urban News

The city of Bo01 has served as a model for urban designers all over the world -- but is it really liveable?

September 1 - The Guardian Unlimited

BLOG POST

Let's take a moment for New Orleans, folks. Better coverage elsewhere -- check out <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/">Boing Boing</a> for links in the blogosphere. So here, you just get an observation: nature, abetted by dumb human decisionmaking, has killed that city.<br /> <br /> In a lot of ways, New Orleans is -- maybe was -- a great place. Tremendous food and music. Like Las Vegas, it was a place where Americans kept their decadence, like a precious thing in a box. In Europe, every city and town blows up into a party Carnival; in the US, we keep our Carnivals going non-stop, 24/7, but they're geographically confined.

August 31 - Anonymous

Planners are mapping out the new campus with enviromental concerns at the forefront.

August 31 - University Of California

Enthusiast Scott Kozel has amassed a staggering amount of information on highways in Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.

August 31 - Virginian Pilot

The L.A. Conservancy gives up its bid to save historic structure which could be razed to make way for schools.

August 31 - The Los Angeles Times

Water has sustained New Orleans and perpetually threatened it. City officials estimated that 80% of the town is under standing water.

August 31 - The Los Angeles Times

Suburbanites can't get anywhere without a car, so higher gas prices will lead to "collapse" of the suburbs.

August 31 - The Philadelphia Daily News

A look at some of Chicago's plans for building the future.

August 31 - Chicago Sun-Times

Politicians and planners must correct policies that made New Orleans vulnerable.

August 31 - The New York Times

How do we retrofit America's sprawl to prepare for a post-oil world? In this week's Op-Ed Wally Siembab proposes a strategy of "smart sprawl."

August 31 - Planetizen

The impact of segregation endures in a Mississippi coast town, where an African-American community is working to protect its environment, housing and history.

August 31 - Shelterforce Online

An excerpt from John McPhee's book, "The Control of Nature", shows why New Orleans has always been vulnerable to flooding.

August 31 - Salon

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August 31 - Wally Siembab