The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Rick Caruso aims to reinvent a cultural icon -- the mall.

December 7 - The Los Angeles Times

The creation of a new Western Sydney Parklands is predicted to be the largest park in the world.

December 7 - The Sydney Morning Herald

Since 1999, more than 1,000 loft units have opened with more than 600 units under construction, and almost double that amount are expected over the next two years.

December 7 - St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Proximity to transit often increases property values enough to offset some or all of transit system capital costs.

December 7 - Victoria Transport Policy Institute

Twenty years after one of the world's worst environmental disasters, an elaborate hoax puts it back into the media spotlight.

December 6 - Democracy Now!

Long a model for protecting rural areas, the state faces a property-rights backlash that could ripple nationwide.

December 6 - The Christian Science Monitor

For the first time, a study ties human-influenced global warming to the likelihood of extreme summers.

December 6 - The Christian Science Monitor

BLOG POST

From the Philadelphia Inquirer<br /> <br /> <blockquote>"Dream isn't deleted yet. What happens when you take Mayor Street's trailblazing vision of Philadelphia as one huge wireless Internet hot spot and suddenly cool it to the temperature of long-dead star? The vision dies, and with it a shining chance to showcase the city as hip and technology-friendly.<br /> Also shot would be the chance to redefine the "City of Brotherly Love" as a community that reaches across the digital computer divide. The vision doesn't die, though, if enough people start chanting - Neverland-style - that they believe... they believe... they believe."</blockquote>

December 6 - Scott Page

D.R. Horton Inc. is the nation's largest home builder, and has achieved success by emulating Wal-Mart's efficiency techniques.

December 6 - The Los Angeles Times

Report highlights dangers faced by pedestrians and recommends measures to reduce accidents and fatalities.

December 6 - The Washington Post

A new surveillance system can recognize the sound of a nearby gunshot -- and identify the shooter.

December 6 - University Of Southern California

Study concludes that walking remains the most dangerous mode of transportation, and some areas of the country are becoming markedly more dangerous.

December 6 - Surface Transportation Policy Project

Four transportation policy experts offer Planetizen readers a forward look at the federal surface transportation program.

December 6 - Planetizen

"New buildings use design and technology to reduce environmental impact, cut costs and provide better places to work."

December 6 - The Economist

Pittsfield, Mass is providing local artists free space in vacant buildings storefronts in the abandoned downtown.

December 6 - The Los Angeles Times

FEATURE

Transportation policy often passes under the radar of political analysts and media commentators. Yet mobility is too important to the economic vitality of the nation to remain invisible in the policy dialogue.

December 6 - C. Kenneth Orski, Stephen Lockwood, Alan E. Pisarski, and Robert W. Poole Jr.

Ninety-seven of the nation's 100 fastest growing counties supported George W. Bush and delivered half of the president's 3.5 million-vote victory margin.

December 5 - Michigan Land Use Institute

Retirement communities in college towns, even in some cases on campus, are a growing trend as boomers age.

December 5 - University Business

If you think that the Bush Administration's drive to privatize almost everything will lead to greater efficiencies and a better use of taxpayers' dollars, then take another look at Boston's "Big Dig."

December 5 - The Boston Globe

Governors from Western states meet to discuss reforming the 31-year-old Endangered Species Act.

December 5 - The Los Angeles Times