The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Home size has been expanding since the middle of the last century. Meanwhile, lots are getting smaller. Economics is driving home builders to more compact, vertical homes.

October 4 - The Los Angeles Times

After Hurricane Katrina, energy conservation and renewable energy make a comeback.

October 4 - The New York Times

The Los Angeles Times architecture critic chastises the massive Los Angeles school district for not using its historic building boom to improve the architecture and planning of new schools.

October 4 - The Los Angeles Times

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<img src="http://66.28.40.163/images/NTEN/RegConfLogos/Logo_NTEN_Conferences.gif" align="right" alt="NTEN Conference Logo" />Abhijeet presented last week at the <a href="http://www.nten.org/">Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network</a> (NTEC) 2005 San Diego Regional Conference on open source content management frameworks for building websites for nonprofit. He published his fabulous presentation online under a creative commons license:<br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.urbaninsight.com/~chavan/2005/nten/">Building Websites For Nonprofits With Open Source Content Management Frameworks</a><br /> <br /> He really knows what he's presenting on, since much of his presentation is based on his hands-on experience with a massive project we just completed here at Urban Insight.

October 3 - Chris Steins

A high-powered group of acadedmics and critics join together to consider the positive aspects of sprawl. Are new exurban development getting better?

October 3 - The Boston Globe

Traffic simulation models offer significant benefits, but after 35 years of development and application, they still have shortcomings. A new study seeks to fill in the gaps.

October 3 - Institute of Transportation Studies Berkeley Online Magazine

Dharavi, a slum in Mumbai, India, may appear at first to be a squalid concentration of misery. It is also the prosperous home of some 5,000 single-room factories and tens of thousands of entrepreneurs.

October 3 - The Globe and Mail

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October 3 - David Goldberg

Iowa county hopes incentives will boost population and economy.

October 3 - Michigan Land Use Institute

Austan Goolsbee explains why a short-term increase in fuel prices is unlikely to change Americans' driving habits.

October 3 - Slate

The Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission has published its comprehensive land-use guide, the 2040 Regional Framework Plan, to facilitate collaboration at the local and regional levels.

October 3 - The Chicago Tribune

The City of Boston and a group of private developers will seek to develop the last downtown frontier by adding 3 million square feet of development on what is currently a sea of parking lots.

October 3 - The Boston Globe

Recall election results in defeat for Wal-Mart's opponents in Jefferson, WI.

October 3 - The Capital Times

The Environmental Protection Agency wants to reduce the regulatory burden on companies by allowing smaller polluters to report less frequently. Environmentalists are skeptical.

October 3 - CBS News

Growth of the Boise metro area has created a need for qualified planners. Boise State University responds with a plan to launch an Institute for Urban and Regional Planning degree program.

October 2 - The Idaho Statesman

Finding new revenue to fund the state's dire transportation needs is at the forefront of the gubernatorial race.

October 2 - The Washington Post

In recent years, women have comprised an average of roughly 40 percent of the new transportation graduate students, both master's and Ph.D. candidates. Berkeley ITS profiles several of its recent graduates.

October 2 - Institute of Transportation Studies Berkeley Online Magazine

East Aurora, a suburb of Buffalo, says no to big box attempts to change the small town feel it guards.

October 2 - The Buffalo News

The reconstruction of the levees will take decades and still may not protect the city against hurricanes stronger, or equal to, Katrina.

October 2 - The New York Times

Projet Montreal, led by urban planner Richard Bergeron, campaigns for car-free development in civic election campaign.

October 2 - The Montreal Gazette