The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

An upcoming U.S. Supreme Court case ruling could have a major impact on preservation and community revitalization.

January 26 - National Trust For Historic Preservation

Rather than just building 'seats', we should create neighborhood-centered joint-use schools.

January 26 - The Planning Report

In Maryland, development has sprawled into prime farmland targeted for preservation with public tax dollars.

January 26 - The Baltimore Sun

Panel proposes a dedicated funding stream from real estate tax for affordable housing.

January 26 - The Washington Post

Architects, planners, and environmentalists assista a community to recover from the devastating impact of the Asian tsunami.

January 26 - Nature

First Illinois, now New Jersey. Will privatizing toll roads become the next new trend?

January 26 - The Philadelphia Inquirer

BLOG POST

<img src="http://www.planetizen.com/tech/files//falcon.jpg" alt=""width="200" align="right" border="0" hspace="2" vspace="2" />So I'm reading the January 7 issue of the journal <em>Science</em> the other day -- because that's the kind of fun I have -- and I noticed two stories that looked related to me, though apparently not to the editors, who separated them. <em>Science</em> is subscription only on the Web, but I'll put links to the citations, at least.<br /> <br /> The first was from the journal's NetWatch page, where they highlight cool stuff around the Web.

January 25 - Anonymous

In looking to adopt some of the radical approaches employed in London to handle homelessness, Canadian cities like Toronto are courting controversy.

January 25 - The Globe and Mail

The Brookings Institution reports on the progress and success of public housing reform and vouchers.

January 25 - The Brookings Institution

Vibrant mixed neighborhood, or big box condo complexes - residents wait to see what's in store.

January 25 - The Seattle Post-Intelligencer

A high school student tracks the effects of gentrification in her Los Angeles neighborhood with digital pictures and a movie.

January 25 - The Los Angeles Times

Why are Americans so good at making movies and software but so bad at building cars and cities?

January 25 - ChangeThis

On the first anniversary of the Main Street light rail line, the Houston Chronicle's transportation columnist offers his own MetroRail IQ test.

January 25 - The Houston Chronicle

A new generation of "megacity urbanists" is emerging.

January 25 - WorldChanging

Cities and counties across the country are undetaking a massive effort to count the homeless.

January 25 - The Los Angeles Times

It may soon be too late to fight global warming says a new report. For the first time in a document of its kind, it also identifies a threshold beyond which it would not be possible to reverse the impact of climate change.

January 25 - The Independent

What's less than five feet wide, eight feet long, seats two, and gets more than 60 miles per gallon?

January 25 - The Christian Science Monitor

BLOG POST

The United States has a wicked high infant mortality rate compared to the rest of the industrialized world. Possible reasons: better reporting in the US, a more diverse population in the US, and a lack of universal health care. All those things are true.<br /> <br /> Another possible reason is that we have a lot of poor people in the States, relative to comparable nations. So a couple of researchers at NYU and Boston University decided to put that last assertion to the test. In the January issue of the <em>American Journal of Public Health</em> (subscription req'd; here's the <a href="http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/abstract/95/1/86">abstract</a>

January 24 - Anonymous

Fords envisions a vehicle for the future -- the SNYus. Is America's urban future so bleak that soccer moms need armored SUVs with non-opening bullet-resistant windows?

January 24 - Naparstek

"Sun, Sin & Suburbia An Essential History of Modern Las Vegas", by Geoff Schumacher, may be the definitive work about the fastest-growing place in America.

January 24 - The Los Angeles Times