The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

An economist's reading of recent trends suggests the future of the downtown is anything but certain.

September 22 - Reason Public Policy Institute

Joe Rodriguez says that what may appear to be an issue of Native American sovereignty may actually be a scam to skirt around local zoning laws.

September 22 - San Jose Mercury News

The current issue of Terrain profiles Lenox Village, Nashville's first full-scale traditional neighborhood development.

September 22 - Terrain

The Rocky Mountain Institute announces the release of "Winning the Oil Endgame: Innovation for Profits, Jobs, and Security", a market-based plan to eliminate oil dependence by 2050.

September 22 - Common Dreams

A new report paints a dire picture for the future of the nation's lakes and oceans, and offers 212 specific recommendations.

September 22 - Naples Daily News

BLOG POST

Today's <em>New York Times</em> has a kinda terrifying <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/21/national/21cameras.html">article</a> (reg. req'd) about Chicago's new network of "smart" surveillance cameras. Don't worry; <del>everything's going to be okay</del> we're all doomed:<br /> <blockquote>Police specialists here can already monitor live footage from about 2,000 surveillance cameras around the city, so the addition of 250 cameras under the mayor's new plan is not a great jump. The way these cameras will be used, however, is an extraordinary technological leap.<br /> <br /> Sophisticated new computer programs will immediately alert the police whenever anyone viewed by any of the cameras placed at buildings and other structures considered terrorist targets wanders aimlessly in circles, lingers outside a public building, pulls a car onto the shoulder of a highway, or leaves a package and walks away from it. Images of those people will be highlighted in color at the city's central monitoring station, allowing dispatchers to send police officers to the scene immediately.</blockquote>

September 21 - Anonymous

The new skyscrapers are unlike anything you may have seen before.

September 21 - The New York Times

Now that Hurricanes Charley and Frances are gone, critics are wondering if it is madness to continue to build (and rebuild) along an eroding shoreline.

September 21 - The Miami Herald

A government-sponsored explosion in the use of scooters by the elderly highlights need for sidewalks.

September 21 - CNN

A green housing project in Oregon actually generates more power than it needs.

September 21 - The Portland Tribune

Tony Blair to urge U.S. to sign Kyoto Treaty.

September 21 - The New Zealand Herald

A new economic development plan that calls for racial isolation is hotly debated in Detroit.

September 21 - The Detroit Free Press

Northern Virginia suburbanites to tear down, redevelop their own near-transit neighborhood at higher densities.

September 21 - The Washington Post

As Orange County runs out of developable land, mixed use becomes increasignly popular.

September 21 - The Los Angeles Times

A look at the post-hurricane real estate market.

September 21 - The New York Times

Alex Marshall on Seattle's advancing monorail project.

September 21 - Citistates Group

Land scarcity promotes development of "urban villages".

September 20 - The Miami Herald

London's transit authority is replacing the remaining 230 signature 'Routemasters' with safer, more efficient German-built busses.

September 20 - The Los Angeles Times

The national meeting of big city Mayors reaches an agreement for a slice of the Federal gas tax, amounting to $10 billion over five years -- twice what the Federal Government is willing to offer.

September 20 - The Globe and Mail

Graham Allison explains the potential impact on a city like Los Angeles if Al Qaeda succeeds in its threat to nuke a U.S. city.

September 20 - The Los Angeles Times