The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

New Orleans' $13.5 billion tourism industry is restarting as the city lays plans to kick-start it.

October 15 - The Christian Science Monitor

One of the most livable places in the U.S. tries to revitalize its downtown.

October 15 - The New York Times

Renowned urban planner Edmond N. Bacon transformed the nation's fifth largest city.

October 15 - The Washington Post

Does developing a building to LEED standards cost more -- or less -- than conventional development? There's no easy answer.

October 15 - St. Louis Daily Record (via Housing Zone)

Jakarta, Dhaka, Lagos, Mumbai, Tokyo and Mexico City are among the world's megacities that are face major environmental and social challenges.

October 14 - E The Environmental Magazine

Highway engineers are recognizing that wider, straighter, and faster is not always better.

October 14 - Governing

One of the new ways the industry is growing is through what critics call 'reservation shopping' -- the push to build Indian casinos on nonreservation land.

October 14 - The Christian Science Monitor

The Albuquerque Alliance for Active Living encourages proper pedestrian planning for creating more livable communities.

October 14 - Albuquerque Journal

Delaware transit officials try reducing toll prices for trucks during off-peak hours on one of the nation's busiest highways in an effort to ease congestion.

October 14 - USA Today

A graduate student and a professor of public policy and administration examine the relationship of concentrating population in the urban center and home prices.

October 14 - Sacramento Business Journal

After years of planning, the City of Detroit will finally demolish the last remnants of industry along its waterfront, making way for the expansion of its riverwalk and future development.

October 14 - The Detroit Free Press

Study finds gated communities are not much more secure than ungated subdivisions.

October 14 - The Orlando Sentinel

A new book, Deep Water, sheds light on the drama of dams.

October 14 - Grist Magazine

Albany struggles with the challenges of historic preservation. Despite progress, some are worried about failure to capitalize on heritage tourism.

October 14 - Metroland

Suburbanites are about 35 per cent more likely to be obese than their urban counterparts. Can obesity be solved through economic incentives and disincentives for development?

October 14 - The Globe and Mail

After 10 years, it appears Ventura County's Save Open-space & Agricultural Resources (SOAR) effort -- a unique urban growth boundaries initiative -- is working. Why haven't they been duplicated elsewhere?

October 13 - The Los Angeles Times

Political parties see the Gulf as a lab for their policy ideas. There's room for many of them, but not all, writes the CSM on their editorial pages.

October 13 - The Christian Science Monitor

Community design costs, big-box retailers, mobile homes, and casinos are just a few of the many challenges that await the new urbanists who were selected to lead the rebuilding of the Missippi gulf coast.

October 13 - USA Today

A team of 100 architects and planners from 50 design firms, and led by Andres Duany, are converting on South Mississippi for the Mississippi Renewal Forum.

October 13 - Sun Herald

The collapse of the New Orleans' levee system is just one example of how the nation's urban infrastructure is deteriorating. Where are the visionaries that built America's greatest cities?

October 13 - The New York Times