The Daily Source of Urban Planning News
Guide To Sustainable Electricity
This consumer guide explains the impacts of different electricity sources and rates the environmental impact on the environment.
Hybridization Coming To A Development Near You
Developments in the future will combine design elements to suit a segmented housing market.
FEATURE
Editorial Cartoon
Neighborhood Councils: Good News-Bad News
An editorial discusses the disparity between affluent and poor neighborhoods in the creation of neighborhood councils.
Wildlife Agencies, Coast Panel Try To Avoid Turf Battle
California's Coastal Commission and federal wildlife agencies are trying to avoid a turf battle over enforcing the federal Endangered Species Act and the California Coastal Act.
Poor Construction Cited In Earthquake Fatalities
Millions around the world are at risk from earthquakes due to substandard construction practices and poor quality concrete.
Nashville Beltway's Future Unclear
The Tennessee Department of Transportation is facing some challenges to the completion of route 840, which opponents say would simply encourage more sprawl.
Impact Of Land Capitalization On Enterprise Zones
A journal article analyzes the potential impact of land capitalization on the incentive effects of enterprise zones, and their potential for being pursued by rent seeking landowners through the local public policy process.
Virginia Launches Online Site Scan
VirginiaScan allows users to search an online database of the state's available sites and buildings.
Activists Want All Of Mesa Protected
Preservationists would like state to buy Bolsa Chica mesa like 1997 purchase of wetlands.
California's Air Pollution Causing Tahoe's Algae Problem
Automobile emissions from Sacramento and the San Francisco Bay may be causing the explosion of algae growth in Lake Tahoe.
Hidden Danger Lurks In Suburban Life
You're more likely to die in a traffic accident in the outer suburbs than be murdered on a city street.
Logging Frim Gets Sustainability Certification
A California Redwood logging firm has received a coveted "sustainability" certification for it's forestry management.
Chicago Tests Digital Traffic Signals
Experimental traffic signals are being tested that would disply he number of seconds pedestrians have to cross the street.
Global Climate Summit Discusses Greenhouse Gases
Delegates from 160 countries, corporate lobbyists, and environmental campaigners discussglobal warming, the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, and "flexibility mechanisms", such asemissions credits.
Growth Is Houston's Top Problem
An economist warns that Houston will be choked if it doesn't deal with its growth.
New Flood-Plain Maps May Cost Residents
New FEMA maps put greater area in 100-year flood zone.
HUD Announces Public Access To Early Warning System
HUD's Neighborhood Watch/Early Warning system has been made available to the public.
Satellites Could Track Vehicles, Collect Fees
Some states are developing a system that uses Global Positioning System satellites to implement a better way to fund highway construction.
High Speed Train Makes Maiden Voyage
Amtrak's Acela pulled out of Washington D.C.'s Union Station on time Thursday morning carrying the long-term hopes for high-speed rail service in the United States.
City of Thousand Oaks
City of Wisconsin Rapids
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
The Architects Foundation
University of Cincinnati Online
Northern Illinois Transit Authority (NITA)
The Pocatello Development Authority
The Urban Renewal Agency of the City of Pocatello
FREE Course: Walkable City 1: Why Walkability?
After describing his path towards focusing on walkability as the essence of good planning, Jeff Speck marches through his five principal reasons for making more walkable places.
Reinventing Malls: Planning Alchemy—Turning Gray Fields Into Gold
The course focuses on the opportunities and imperatives that shape reinvention of mall sites.
