The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Should new communities can be designed to help encourage children to spend more time outdoors in physical activities?

August 2 - Nation's Building News

Arizona's rural landscapes are being taken over and obstructed by huge housing booms and development projects. Residents are supporting a ballot initiative to preserve hundreds of thousands of acres of land, while legislators side with developers.

August 2 - The Arizona Republic

State and local officials worry US Army plans to relocate 22,000 employees to Fort Belvoir may cause severe traffic problems.

August 2 - The Washington Post

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<a href="http://totalexperience.corante.com/">Bob Jacobson</a> emails to say that Brian Deagon's article for Investor's Business Daily, "<a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/ibd/060731/feature.html?.v=1">Cities' Wi-Fi Efforts Might Pose Threat To Cable, Telecom</a>" is a good article and reminds him of "the early cable days!"<br /> <br /> <blockquote>More cities are starting to manage Internet access much like they manage electricity, water and transportation services. That trend could cost cable and telecom providers billions of dollars in lost business.<br /> <br /> As of July 1, 59 cities were running broadband Internet networks, up from 38 a year earlier, according to MuniWireless.com, which tracks this subject.</blockquote>

August 1 - Chris Steins

The auctioning of protected federal lands comes with a "troubling twist."

August 1 - The Los Angeles Times

High land prices in the Orlando area have helped encourage higher density development. Urban planners applaud the new trend, but some residents worry about the change in the region's character.

August 1 - The Orlando Sentinel

Controversial Boise convention center plans face location and financing hurdles.

August 1 - The Idaho Statesman

In an effort to maintain more control over the system and to boost its own economy, Boston plans to depart from the model used in other U.S. cities by turning its Wi-Fi network over to a non-profit organization.

August 1 - The Boston Globe

More cities are calling for an end to dead ends, to the dismay of residents and developers.

August 1 - The Seattle Times

In the first of a four-part series, the Globe and Mail takes an in-depth look at the transformation of Canada's suburbs.

August 1 - The Globe and Mail

Los Angeles Mayor Villaraigosa proposes to waive Metro fees for a week to increase ridership. L.A. Times editorial argues that the idea won't work.

August 1 - The Los Angeles Times

Forums and blogs are appearing on the Internet where many engineers are anonymously speculating about the range of problems to come for the Big Dig/Central Artery Tunnel Project.

August 1 - Design News

A new housing development in Moscow takes its inspiration from the Russian elite's affection for all things British. The largest housing development since the fall of Communism will recreate an English village with a view of the Kremlin.

August 1 - Telegraph UK

New Bloomingdales and related retail uses planned for downtown San Francisco's extremely dense retail district--with exceptional transit access--is bringing parking worries among merchants and the small minority of downtown shoppers who drive.

August 1 - The San Francisco Chronicle

A recent op-ed in the Los Angeles Times outlines the issues around "gentrification" using the city's recent wave of downtown redevelopment as a case study.

July 31 - The Los Angeles Times

Chicago's City Council passed a landmark ordinance yesterday that requires big-box stores to pay a minimum wage of $10 per hour by 2010 plus $3 an hour worth of benefits.

July 31 - The New York Times

An immigrant from Romania growing up in Brooklyn, Winnick spent his life helping to improve low-income urban neighborhoods.

July 31 - The Seattle Post-Intelligencer

In "DISASTER: Hurricane Katrina and the Failure of Homeland Security," authors Christopher Cooper and Robert Block shed light on the series of actions that led to the government's woeful response to the catastrophe.

July 31 - The Wall Street Journal

Universities planning to build new sports facilities are being hit with construction costs twice as high as a decade ago.

July 31 - The Oregonian

Oregon's Measure 37 was just the first of a series of campaigns from the ideological right -- all dressed up in populist rhetoric -- that favor developers and limit the abilities of cities to plan.

July 31 - Tom Paine Common Sense