The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Labelling the stalled Freedom Tower design a "junkyard," celebrity developer Donald Trump has supported a plan to rebuild the Twin Towers in the same form as the lost towers...but one floor taller.

May 20 - Chicago Sun-Times

FBI identifies eco-terrorists as the nation's top domestic threat.

May 20 - CNN

New $225 million mixed use development announced for prime riverfront area.

May 20 - The Cleveland Plain Dealer

San Francisco moves closer to being bicycle-friendly by approving a policy framework to make pro-bicycle planning part of The City's general plan.

May 20 - San Francisco Examiner

As competition for students heats up, universities are expanding campuses and physical amenities.

May 19 - Wall St. Journal

Plans for the California river finally overcome all obstacles.

May 19 - Los Angeles Times

Labor interests and city council are concerned about the fate of neighborhood stores.

May 19 - The Cleveland Plain Dealer

Homeowners calls them McMansions. Developers consider them reinvesting and recycling homes.

May 19 - Housing Zone

A plan for Palestine reimagines the landspace and the Palestinian experience with a high-speed train liking major towns and cities.

May 19 - The New York Times

rly four years after 9/11, there are more homes, grassy parks -- and new challenges, too.

May 19 - The Christian Science Monitor

In defiance of the White House, the U.S. Senate approved a $295 billion highway and mass transit bill.

May 19 - The New York Times

Arizona's Vestar Development strikes early in less-populated suburbs with huge malls that anticipate growth.

May 19 - The Arizona Republic

An extensive interview with Dolores Hayden, the author of "A Field Guide to Sprawl" and "Building Suburbia."

May 19 - UnionDocs

The Bush administration is backing away from urban programs that Republicans of a generation ago supported.

May 19 - California Planning and Development Report

Wal-Mart modified its standard store design to satisfy the City of Ottawa's requirements for a unique landscape and architectural design that fostered a pedestrian environment.

May 18 - The Ottawa Citizen

Does unreliable data and analysis result in hidden taxes in the form of higher costs for infrastructure?

May 18 - American Planning Association

King County and the BNSF Railway in Seattle have begun negotiations to build 47-mile 'super-trail' over existing rail line.

May 18 - The Seattle Times

Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano is the state's most popular tourist attractions, but also by far the state's worst source of air pollution.

May 18 - Environmental News Network

Can combining technology, incentives and HOV lanes solve Houston's traffic problems?

May 18 - The Houston Chronicle

BLOG POST

<img src="http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/06/images/feature_linux.gif" alt="Linux v. Microsoft" align="right" />This article, <a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/06/issue/feature_linux.asp?trk=nl">How Linux Could Overthrow Microsoft</a>, in MIT's <em>Technology Review</em> caught me off-guard.<br /> <br /> The article is a fascinating overview of the open source and proprietary software models. It appears to be well-researched and written, and makes a compelling case for open source:<br /> <br /> <blockquote>...For all its flaws, the open-source model has powerful advantages. The deepest and also most interesting of these advantages is that, to put it grossly, open source takes the bullshit out of software. It severely limits the possibility of proprietary "lock-in"--where users become hostage to the software vendors whose products they buy...</blockquote>

May 18 - Chris Steins