The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Correcting the "Seven Fallacies of Architectural Culture" can save urbanism says, Douglas Kelbaugh FAIA, Dean A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan.

September 13 - University Of Michigan

Cities need a back-to-basics strategy, writes Joel Kotkin. Strategies that cater to the creative class are not going to revitalize cities.

September 13 - The Los Angeles Times

Ceramic heads guard the roofline of an historic apartment building off of Kansas City's Country Club Plaza shopping district, but the city's Landmarks Commission now says the heavy heads must come down.

September 13 - The Kansas City Star

The American Planning Association publishes a list of the 25 most influential planners prior to 1978.

September 13 - American Planning Association

FEATURE

The federal government can play a transformative rather than divisive role if it becomes a better partner in land use, housing - and especially transportation.

September 13 - Earl Blumenauer

At any given time, half of the population in the developing world is suffering from access to safe drinking water.

September 12 - The Los Angeles Times

The Charlotte Observer interviews the city manager of Hickory, NC, about his views on planning and development.

September 12 - The Charlotte Observer

New York has joined four other states in suing the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development over its use of pesticides.

September 12 - The New York Times

Home Depot's first store in Manhattan will be three stories and include a concierge and doorman.

September 12 - CNN

Can Los Angeles learn from Chicago and New York about how to make the Los Angeles River a 'sparkling necklace of parks and mixed-use projects'?

September 12 - Los Angeles Downtown News

This Sierra Club report extensively documents how the Bush administration's reckless disregard of 9/11 toxic hazards poses long-term threats to rescue and cleanup workers, as well as bystanders present.

September 11 - Sierra Club

The quiet regional university town of Viseu in Portugal is in uproar this week after the University administration apparently moved in Modernist faculty and changed the syllabus of the acclaimed New School of Architecture & Urbanism.

September 11 - INTBAU

U.S. Green Building Council is urged to consider "smart growth" in LEED certification.

September 11 - Michigan Land Use Institute

Four young men spend three days nonstop riding the lengths of every possible line of San Francisco's Muni bus system. They call it 'Municon 2004.'

September 11 - The San Francisco Chronicle

Welcome to the nation's traffic capital. Southern Californians may say that they're for mass transit, but our collective heart isn't in it, writes columnist Steve Lopez.

September 11 - The Los Angeles Times

Miles of secret tunnels and catacombs lie beneath the city of Paris.

September 10 - The Guardian Unlimited

Are the politics of "green technology" overstating the real value? New research takes a hard look at the claims of sustainability.

September 10 - Building Design & Construction

Routemasters - the loveable London red buses introduced in 1954 - are at the end of the road, says Transport for London, despite massive press and passenger protests.

September 10 - INTBAU

FEATURE

Spatial information professionals gather at the 42nd Annual Conference of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association in Reno, NV.

September 10 - Abhijeet Chavan

A Miami Herald columnist asks if the description of a land boom in Miami eight decades ago is a description of what is happening in the city today.

September 10 - The Miami Herald