The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Planning schools from around the country take part in a design competition.

February 6 - Michigan Live

Master plan for Panama’s second colonial-era capital city center calls for “a sustainable, irreversible recovery” of the entire neighborhood.

February 6 - PA Land Use

The Voice of America profiles Junhan Tan, an urban planning and cinema student from Singapore studying at USC.

February 5 - Voice Of America

Two agencies sign a memorandum of understanding to promote transportation choices, economic development, and public health.

February 5 - NOAA Magazine

Cincinnati's Neighborhood Summit looks at small business districts.

February 5 - The Cincinnati Enquirer

From NPR...one commentator's challenge to Spokane, WA's plan for a "gay district" to attract the Creative Class.

February 5 - National Public Radio

The owners of Tysons Corner Center, already the region's largest mall, are developing a plan that would double its size and move toward transforming the iconic suburban shopping destination into something like a small city.

February 5 - The Washington Post

Thousands of new nuclear reactors would be needed to produce the hydrogen required to meet America's energy needs.

February 4 - The Financial Times

In Kansas City, a publicity campaign seemed to curtail crime in a bad neighborhood, but will the good times roll?

February 4 - Kansas City Pitch Weekly

The Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority is making sweeping changes to city neighborhoods, but at what cost?

February 4 - Philadelphia Weekly

What can you learn about a city from its grocery stories?

February 4 - Tucson Weekly

BLOG POST

Thanks to Larry Segal (former editor of <a href="http://www.planningreport.com/tpr/">The Planning Report</a>, now at <a href="http://www.kbhome.com/">KBHome</a>) for pointing me at an interesting <a href="http://www.laobserved.com/archive/003035.html">observation</a> from <a href="http://www.laobserved.com/">LA Observed</a> about open source:<br /> <br /> <blockquote><a href="http://www.lacity.org/council/cd13/c13nps1a.htm">Eric Garcetti</a>: The blogging councilman and colleagues Wendy Greuel and Jack Weiss offered a motion to push the city toward using more open source computer programs and re-routing the money saved on software to hiring more cops.

February 4 - Chris Steins

The play "Boozy: The Life, Death, and Subsequent Vilification of Le Corbusier and, More Importantly, Robert Moses" opens Off-Broadway in New York this month.

February 4 - Playbill

San Diego and other California cities hope to counter public opposition to "accessory dwelling units".

February 4 - The San Diego Union-Tribune

Can elected officials be taught to think regionally about growth?

February 4 - The Washington Post

Manhattan's malls have been replaced by "vertical retail environments". How will malls evolve in dense urban environments?

February 4 - The Architect's Newspaper

Philadelphia has joined a growing list of cities banning smoking in all bars and restaurants.

February 4 - Philadelphia City Paper

If American companies fail to invest in clean energy and carbon-neutral technologies, they will lose out in the global marketplace.

February 4 - GreenBiz

An East Baltimore neighborhood has become so violent that one activist wants federal funding for the "epidemic."

February 3 - Baltimore City Paper

New transportation bills in Pennsylvania call for a range of creative measures to encourage mass transit.

February 3 - Philadelphia Weekly