The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Houston's center is beginning to flourish but there are still challenges ahead.

January 24 - The Houston Chronicle

A new study evaluates satisfaction with HOPE VI 'New Urbanist' housing versus other public and private housing.

January 24 - University Of Louisville

An index of environmentally sustainable nations prepared in collaboration with World Economic Forum lists Finland, Norway and Uruguay at the top. How does the U.S. rank?

January 24 - The New York Times

A battle to expand a camp for the blind runs into a self-styled Thoreau fighting to save one of the last pristine streams left in Southern California.

January 24 - The Los Angeles Times

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<img src="http://www.planetizen.com/tech/files//Las Vegas.jpg" alt="" width="300" align="right" border="0" hspace="2" vspace="2" />Another city experimenting with another wireless network: this time it's Las Vegas, and according to <a href="http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/publicfeature/jan05/0105wvega.html">this</a> article in the always-educational <em>IEEE Spectrum</em> they're building not WiFi but a mesh network, and it's for municipal services, not bloggers drunk on the Strip. <br /> <br /> A mesh network, as almost everyone reading this will know better than I do, is nodeless -- that is, instead of having a hub that directs traffic to and from spokes, mesh networks treat every user as a place to route data.

January 24 - Anonymous

The problems faced by the D.C. area Metro could be solved by using a system that has been successful in major cities around the world.

January 24 - The Washington Post

A new collection of essays, 'The Resilient City' explores how cities bounce back after a catastrophe.

January 24 - Newsweek

An city dweller shares her experiences relocating to a farm.

January 24 - The Washington Post

In Canada, as gambling has quadrupled in the past decade, groups are now asking lawmakers to study the social costs.

January 24 - The Christian Science Monitor

Can Hans Monderman's apparently anarchical 'shared space' roadways result in safer communities?

January 23 - International Herald Tribune

'Pod thinking' results in planning that fails to look beyond the small community and encourages NIMBYism, BANANAs, and NIMTOOs.

January 23 - Los Angeles Downtown News

Readers talk back about the Christian-right take on environmentalism

January 23 - Grist Magazine

How both art and artists helped one city rebuild.

January 23 - The Next American City

D.C. suburbs experience another year of double digit increases in housing assessments.

January 23 - The Washington Post

A review of Worldwatch's State of the World 2005 edition.

January 22 - Joel Makower

A host of economic and political forces are leading to growing concern about the bursting of an "historically unprecedented credit bubble" that could lead to a collapse of the U.S. economy.

January 22 - TomDispatch

Forbes offers a roundup of the ten worst cars on the market, based on worst crash test scores, lowest reliability and lowest residual values.

January 22 - Forbes

A filmaker ends up with footage of 19 deaths by people jumping off what is regarded as the world's No. 1 suicide landmark.

January 22 - The Oakland Tribune

Hendrix College invites a pioneer of "New Urbanism" to participate in creating an updated master plan.

January 22 - CollegeNews.Org

Without the conventional rules and regulations of the road in place, drivers tend to slow down, open their eyes and develop a 'feel' for their surroundings.

January 21 - The Toronto Star