The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Bush and Kerry would do well to make metropolitan policy a priority on the national agenda.

October 28 - Smart Growth America

The LA Times identifies retired mathemetician David Gelbaum, who has quietly given at least $250 million to preserve California's wildlife corridors.

October 28 - The Los Angeles Times

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Remember when interactive television was dead? Time-Warner's Full Service Television experiment in Florida in the 1990s was a failure -- people hated it. Something about how the set-top boxes sucked, I think. So the concept went away, fading like CD-ROMs before the onslaught of the Internet.<br /> <br /> At least, that seems to be what the <em>New York Times</em> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/21/garden/21SOFT.html">remembers</a>. Here's the part I'm talking about:<blockquote>The Microsoft Home is more like a concept car, a design to dream about. Microsoft has imagined a dream house before: 10 years ago the company unveiled its first such demonstration home. At the time Microsoft's designers were intrigued by interactive television, a technology that never became the next big thing.</blockquote>

October 27 - Anonymous

Over 53 transit ballot initiatives will be voted on this year, worth over $51 billion.

October 27 - USA Today

Fiber optics and high speed Internet are becoming as fundamental as plumbing in new developments. Some developers envision a future as telecom providers.

October 27 - Housing Zone

A new Georgia Tech study suggests that smart growth reduces car trips and improves air quality.

October 27 - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Kevin Starr has added a seventh volume to his history of the nation's most populous state.

October 27 - The Christian Science Monitor

Residential architecture returns to it's roots in Chicago.

October 27 - The New York Times

For the past five years, growth in solar and wind power has increased by 30% per year. Yet the Bush Administration's energy policy has failed to respond to this opportunity.

October 27 - Salon

In both New York and Massachusetts taller guard rails and Jersey barriers are being used along highways to provide protection from larger and taller vehicles.

October 27 - Times Union

Billionaire Paul Allen suggests that Seattle is destined to become the nation's biotechnology hub.

October 27 - The Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Here's how our cities can return to fostering vibrant, mixed-use neighborhoods.

October 27 - ChangeThis

The Region of Waterloo presents an animated tutorial and website about how to use a roundabout.

October 27 - Regeneration And Renewal

Commentator Joel Schwartz questions the methodology and findings of the NAR/Smart Growth America report.

October 26 - American Enterprise Institute For Public Policy Re

A new report finds longer commutes are increasing demand for walkable neighborhoods.

October 26 - Smart Growth America

Traditional urban business district demonstrates the economic impact of local retail, restaurant, and service businesses.

October 26 - Home Town Advantage Bulletin

Cities are responding to the deteriorating fiscal conditions in a variety of ways. The most common response has been to raise or institute new fees and charges for services.

October 26 - National League Of Cities

Other states are studying California's newly launched voluntary program that offers incentives to landowners to leave forests standing.

October 26 - Wired

Participants in an AIA-sponsored conference report on the lessons learned from the efforts to rebuild lower Manhattan.

October 26 - The American Institute of Architects

An interview with environmental educator and writer David Orr.

October 26 - Grist Magazine