The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

On their official blog, Metro gives a preview of the new rail extension which will extend the line to East L.A. Steve Hymon and Fred Dennstedt share their notes.

October 29 - The Source (Metro's blog)

Photographer Alex MacLean talks about his book <em>OVER: The American Landscape at the Tipping Point.</em>

October 29 - Northwest Hub

Liquor stores and religious uses are the only building markets staying afloat in Florida, say experts.

October 29 - New Geography

FEATURE

October 29 - Tim Halbur

Earlier this week, the Obama Administration announced a significant investment in smart grid infrastructure like improved transmission lines and smart meters in homes.

October 29 - The White House blog

The new Dallas Performing Arts Center marks the end of a boom in the development of arts centers and a moment in American architecture, says Nicolai Ouroussoff.

October 29 - The New York Times

The Watford Borough Council has voted that parents cannot play with their own children in local playgrounds because they haven't had a criminal background check.

October 29 - The Telegraph U.K.

Alan Greenblatt reports on increasing chatter among liberal blogs over whether states as a form of government are obsolete, while regional interests are more valid and under-represented.

October 29 - Governing Magazine

Volunteers set out to bike from the factory to Princeton University, where an employee bike-share program will begin in November.

October 29 - The New York Times

A brick wall is being built on a traffic island in New York without human hands. The robot doing the work is a brainchild of two architects as an illustration of 'digital materiality'.

October 29 - Science Daily

Now that Ed Roski's new stadium in the City of Industry is exempt from CEQA, Bill Fulton wonders whether California can deny the same competitive advantage to others.

October 28 - California Planning & Development Report

The Senate transportation spending bill, signed last week, contains a provision requiring Amtrak to allow guns on its trains or lose its funding.

October 28 - The Hill

Daybreak is a massive development planned by Peter Calthorpe being built in Utah on land owned by a mining company. Artist Lucy Raven takes her camera for a visit to see how Daybreak is coming along given the soft housing market.

October 28 - Triple Canopy

A roundabout replaced a flashing red light that was causing traffic jams at an intersection in Wanker's Corner, Oregon. Locals are calling it a miracle.

October 28 - The Oregonian

Platte River Village, now building in Denver, is a new concept in fusing agriculture and suburbia.

October 28 - Denver Post

Forbes Magazine jumps into the fray once again with their list of "America's Safest Cities." Violent crime, workplace deaths, fatal crashes and natural disasters are all a part of the data considered.

October 28 - Forbes

Affordable space, city incentives, and good transport are bringing Oakland, CA back to its roots as a center of the food processing industry.

October 28 - San Francisco Chronicle

With closed borders and a military lockdown on all imports and exports, the Palestinians of Gaza rely on a network of smuggling tunnels to obtain goods.

October 28 - Time

Plans to build a group of villages near science and biotech office parks in Maryland could help the area secure federal light rail funding.

October 28 - The Washington Post

To protect the endangered Delta Smelt fish, pumping of water from California's Sacramento Delta has been drastically cut back. Add in the state's three-year-long drought, and the result is a major problem for the state's people and farmers.

October 28 - The Economist