The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Municipal wi-fi and regionally-owned power utilities are two successful examples of community ownership, which is being promoted as an alternative to unaccountable corporatism.

July 27 - The Huffington Post

While "Traffic calming" can be effective in reducing traffic through a neighborhood, sometimes it can work too well.

July 27 - Houston Strategies

'Consumption cathedrals' have grown despite a culture that clings to its town squares.

July 27 - The Christian Science Monitor

With rising gas prices and the possibility of low-priced Chinese-made cars, the U.S. auto industry has no option but to change.

July 27 - The New York Times

Dozens of Miami designers and architects including Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk are getting involved in transforming the urban neighborhood.

July 27 - The Miami Herald

As house sizes continue to expand, so does the environmental impact, according to a new study.

July 27 - Greener Buildings

A free new book explores the issues related to on-line citizen participation for local government planning departments.

July 27 - The Ohio State University

The recent heat wave, couple with dwindling housing for the homeless, has made this summer one of the deadliest on record.

July 26 - The Los Angeles Times

The Census Bureau produces population estimates for some 40,000 places across the U.S. every year, but local experts often have access to more detailed information.

July 26 - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

How one Chicagoan rediscovered the city by giving up his car.

July 26 - Newcity Chicago

Ric Stephens has compiled a list of some of the wackiest –- yet at timesquite realistic –- urban planning words, in a vocabulary he has dubbed'Plannerese.'

July 26 - Planetizen

Innovative trans-boundary planning is going to be necessary to make enoromous regional urban developments work.

July 26 - The Seattle Times

Housing prices were a major factor in determining this year's list, ranging from Seattle to Los Angeles.

July 26 - Yahoo! Newswire

After encountering local resistance to renovating the building for a new Apple store, the computer maker is now proposing to tear the building down outright.

July 26 - Apple Insider

Led by Frank Gehry's firm, so-called 'starchitects' are now considered essential to large-scale development projects.

July 26 - The Los Angeles Times

"Wasteless in Seattle" initiative aims to reduce the need for landfills and energy costs.

July 26 - The Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Terrorism is such a threat to modern cities partly because of the way we have organized our economies and transport systems as highly complex systems with few redundancies.

July 26 - The Globe and Mail

FEATURE

July 26 - Ric Stephens

Farm-fresh foods build commerce, culture, community

July 25 - Michigan Land Use Institute

A new report examines the state of Black Los Angeles, and finds that Black equality trails all other ethnic groups in Los Angeles.

July 25 - United Way, Los Angeles