The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Dan Burden identifies the top ten strategies planners can use to craft a walkable community.

June 25 - Planetizen

Andres Duany is hired to build a new-urbanist mini-city in Tyson's Corner. Not everyone believes in the concept, however.

June 25 - The Washington Post

America's universities are the most wired places in the nation. Why are they looking to 19th century architecture for guidance?

June 25 - The Industry Standard

A new type of city explodes around the edges of metropolis.

June 25 - Fannie Mae Foundation

City leaders envision more growth along Park Avenue, with new offices and even loft apartments moving in above the street-level businesses, a decades old concept that used to be the norm.

June 25 - The Orlando Sentinel

FEATURE

Walkable communities are celebrated destinations that create a sense of place and promote economic development. Dan Burden identifies the top ten strategies planners can use to craft a walkable community.

June 25 - Dan Burden

A new study by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health looks at projected population growth in cities and rural areas worldwide, concluding that long-term health and living standards will be greatly affected by changing demographics.

June 24 - Contra Costa Times-Walnut Creek

A Maryland architecture professor argues that roads, not just public transit, are necessary for a successful TOD.

June 24 - The Washington Post

The Engineering News Record publishes the top 100 construction and construction-management firms in the U.S.

June 24 - Engineering News Record

Residents fight smart growth plan, charging that planners are trying to urbanize the community.

June 24 - Portland Press Herald

Experts say that ocean energy has the potential to power the entire world without producing greenhouse gases.

June 24 - The San Diego Union-Tribune

Planners are increasingly using new urbanist and smart growth principles to build suburbs. The result is the 'New Suburb.'

June 23 - National Geographic

A "sustainable" building design for a federal office tower in San Francisco is not allowed under current zoning, but local planners have no jurisdiction.

June 23 - The San Francisco Chronicle

The city wants to build a megaproject on the site; developers are spooked by slowing economy.

June 23 - Chicago Sun-Times

The Sierra Club, Demographia and Thoreau Institute battle it out over a new "sprawl calculator."

June 22 - Demographia

According to a new study by the Worldwatch Institute, sprawling urban areas worldwide are making road transportation the fastest-growing source of carbon emissions.

June 22 - The News & Observer

Officials chasing federal money to onstruct a high-speed, magnetically propelled train between Las Vegas and Anaheim, California, say powerful friends in Congress are keeping their bid alive.

June 22 - Las Vegas Sun

Poor road planning has led to chronic gridlock, and county planners face a growing population that is frustrated with current traffic levels.

June 22 - Orange County Register

Bush appears likely to continue support for Habitat Conservation Plans as a way of managing endangered species issues.

June 22 - California Planning and Development Report

The Antelope Valley Poppy Reserve visitor center is so energy-efficient that is does not need an air conditioner or a furnace, despite fluctuating temperatures.

June 22 - The Los Angeles Times