The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Inspectors found an unusually high rate of fraud, but taxi drivers and owners challenge the findings, citing the small sample size.

September 26 - The Los Angeles Times

Designed in the 1960s as part of a wave of largely unsuccessful urban renewal projects across the U.S., this continuously thriving mixed-income and racially integrated community just east of downtown Detroit stands as a model of good urban design.

September 25 - The Detroit Free Press

With the city mostly built out, and more residents looking to live in the urban core, Toronto planners and developers are busy building the city upwards.

September 25 - The Toronto Star

The Planning Report interviews USC Planning School dean Jack Knott about the school's ambitions of preparing students to lead in regions throughout the world.

September 25 - The Planning Report

Following in the footsteps of cities in California, Michigan, and Massachusetts, the New York City Council majority leader is throwing his weight behind a proposal to restrict the number of high-calorie, fast-food giants in the city's neighborhoods.

September 25 - The New York Times

Gas prices averaged $2.44 nationwide on Sept. 22, 47 cents less than a month ago (per AAA) and continue to fall as oil prices hover at $60/barrel; yet surveys show consumers continue to rank fuel economy as their top consideration.

September 25 - The New York Times

Atlanta's proposed transit and recreation loop using largely abandoned rail lines as a spur to economic development was dealt a damaging blow as a suburban developer backed out of plans to build condo towers along the line.

September 25 - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

An interactive diagram that explains how the world's second largest concrete building is being built with the help of the Putzemeister, a small but integral part of the building's construction.

September 25 - The Chicago Tribune

FEATURE

September 25 - Sean Garretson, AICP

Huston Eubank, director of the World Green Building Council, answers Grist's questions.

September 25 - Grist Magazine

Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles have been promoted as achieving over 100 mpg. The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy reports on the energy and emissions benefits of this new technology, showing it varies on geography and technology.

September 25 - American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy News Release

Planners and developers are clashing over the design of Vancouver's Olympic village for the 2010 games. Some say the developers haven't gone far enough to achieve the 3 E's of sustainability.

September 24 - The Vancouver Sun

In the guise of an anti-eminent domain measure, California's Prop 90 seeks to trick voters into adopting a policy that would devastate the state's ability to set aside land for conservation.

September 24 - The Planning Report

This column from the UK's <em>New Statesman</em> bemoans the drab similarity of English towns. A report concludes that 42% of the nation's town's are essentially 'clones'.

September 24 - New Statesman

This Mediterranean city epitomizes Europe's declining birthrate and the challenges cities face because of the aging population.

September 24 - The New York Times

With the State of California recently moving to seek damages from car makers, could auto manufacturers be the new tobacco industry -- ripe for litigation due to the global warming emissions from the vehicles they produce?

September 24 - The New York Times

Despite a scandal-plagued post-Clinton-Cabinet professional career, Henry Cisneros has emerged as one of the nation's top affordable-housing developers. Now, "traditional" development companies are also edging into the market.

September 23 - The Wall Street Journal

Peter Calthorpe, an early pioneer of the new urbanism and smart growth movements, recently received the prestigious J.C. Nichols Prize for Visionaries in Urban Development by the Urban Land Institute.

September 23 - The San Francisco Chronicle

When a developer proposed building a toll road under an 1891 law that allowed private developers to condemn property needed for a road, land owners protested, and Colorado changed the law.

September 23 - The New York Times

The Campaign for Sensible Growth, a Chicago-based group, has published a step-by-step guide to writing a comprehensive plan.

September 23 - Campaign For Sensible Growth