The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

This report examines key trends challenging the Louisville region as it prepares for a city/county consolidation.

July 15 - The Brookings Institution

Sierra Magazine's cover story features a "power lunch" with energy executives and environmentalists to address national energy policy.

July 15 - Sierra Club

A new study finds that UGBs and subsequent voter approval requirements dominate recent ballot-box zoning in California.

July 15 - Solimar Research Group

According to the 2000 Census, 8.7 million households live in mobile homes. South Carolina is the nation's mobile home capital.

July 15 - Sun Spot

A manicured front yard is not voluntary here. It's mandatory.

July 15 - The Washington Post

Emily Talen presents the results of an evaluation of the link between physical planning and New Urbanism's social goals.

July 15 - Fannie Mae Foundation

We should not dismiss the bold planning experiment in Oregon just because it runs counter to current orthodoxies.

July 15 - Planetizen

Though clearly a tragedy, the destruction of the Twin Towers offers a chance to fix one of city planning's blunders.

July 15 - The Boston Globe

Some growth-phobic towns are using a practice sarcastically referred to as 'vasectomy zoning' to limit the arrival of families.

July 15 - The Boston Globe

FEATURE

We should not dismiss the bold planning experiment in Oregon just because it runs counter to current orthodoxies.

July 15 - Dan Zack

This article presents evidence that components of social capital can play a positive role in crime prevention in low-income housing.

July 14 - Fannie Mae Foundation

However engaging Los Angeles' various high profile projects may be... they are not where the future of the city lies.

July 14 - KCRW

Two years ago a Chicago College installed a new, high-tech parking lot intended to percolate percolate rainwater into the ground.

July 14 - Chicago Sun-Times

If Los Angeles secessions succeeds, it will be the greatest political division since the Civil War. Perhaps boroughs are an alternative.

July 14 - The Los Angeles Times

The Guadalupe River in Texas has flooded twice in five years. Should the communities along the river be rebuilt?

July 14 - The Christian Science Monitor

Have you ever fallen in love with a place but you weren't quite sure why?

July 14 - Smart City

The six redevelopment plans for the World Trade Center site share similarities but none include housing.

July 13 - The New York Times

The Blur Building in Switzerland, designed by MacArthur "Genius" award-winners, is built using water.

July 13 - Wired

In an editorial, Wendell Cox charges that transit ridership has set a new record -- an all time low.

July 13 - Sun Spot

Miami-Dade County will join Broward and Palm Beach counties to give more power to Tri-Rail.

July 13 - Sun-Sentinel