The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

The frenzied development pace of the world's fastest growing national economy has some fearing an impending real estate bust.

May 13 - The Los Angeles Times

Fourteen million people use public transportation every day in the U.S., but the federal government has invested only $0.006 in security per passenger.

May 13 - GovExec

BLOG POST

Thanks to Adam Rogers at <a href="http://www.wired.com/">Wired</a> for this reference to the Transportation Research Board's participation solicitation for <a href="http://gulliver.trb.org/news/blurb_detail.asp?id=3692">XML Schemas for Exchange of Transportation Data</a>. <br /> <br /> XML tells the web browser software about the structure and type of information it's displaying, distinguishing content from format by adding metadata.<br /> <br /> We predicted that planning specialties would begin developing their own XML schemas in a 1999 article for APA's Planning magazine, <a href="http://www.planning.org/planningpractice/1999/feb99.htm">'X' Marks the Spot</a>

May 12 - Chris Steins

If roads are about "getting there" and streets are about "being there", can Sydney's busiest road become a street?

May 12 - The Sydney Morning Herald

A new book investigates why the construction industry is constrained by narrow thinking.

May 12 - Spiked

Trucks and SUVs are causing record consumption this year and refineries are already operating at capacity.

May 12 - The Detroit Free Press

Apartment dwellers are seeking out quality developments that increasingly reflect their own civic, urban and environmentally responsible identity.

May 12 - Australian Financial Review

Billions spent on new bridges to satisfy ego, spread sprawl

May 12 - Michigan Land Use Institute

Anthony Flint reviews the urban design goals as well as the architecture of Gehry's new Stata Center.

May 12 - The Boston Globe

Randal O'Toole, an economist and director of the Oregon-based Thoreau Institute, challenges smart growth.

May 12 - Toronto At Home

The federal Section 8 housing program helps low-income Americans afford decent places to live. But now it's about to be trimmed.

May 12 - The Christian Science Monitor

Urbanist Jane Jacobs talks to the New Yorker about New York, Ground Zero, and "Dark Age Ahead," her new book.

May 12 - The New Yorker

Manchester UK has been so successful in attracting new residents back to the town center, that planners now must balance rival claimants for shrinking space.

May 12 - The Guardian Unlimited

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An article in the Christian Science Monitor looks at the <strong>information environmentalism movement</strong> in an article titled "<a href="http://search.csmonitor.com/search_content/0510/p11s02-stct.html">E-serenity, now!</a>" [May 10, 2004].<br /> <br /> <img src="http://www.planetizen.com/tech/files//keyboard.jpg" alt="keyboard" align="right" /><br /> <br /> <blockquote>"The newest polluters are not chemical manufacturers leaking toxins into the air. Neither are they logging conglomerates clearing ancient forests nor avaricious developers turning wetlands into strip malls. The newest polluters are in your pocket, atop your desk, or clogging your telephone lines with streams of digital effluent."</blockquote>

May 11 - Abhijeet Chavan

Readers responde to change in direction of Washington DC subway fare policies More costs to the riders, reduced payments from the local governments

May 11 - The Washington Post

What makes a rural house a well designed one? Ireland's Cork County Council provides its guidelines.

May 11 - Irish Independent

State of Michigan grant program aims to spur redevelopment.

May 11 - The Detroit News

Hugh Pearman offers a preview of a few of the fantasy designs that should have been built, but were not.

May 11 - Gabion

Virginia town votes for candidates committed to reining in Wal-Mart.

May 11 - The Washington Post

Boston city officials and Boston University want to build a controversial virus lab in a densely populated neighborhood.

May 11 - The Christian Science Monitor