The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Will the IRS focus on land gifts have a chilling impact on donations to environmental groups?

July 3 - The Washington Post

New Department of Transportation data shows that poor road work can lead to hundreds of dollars in extra vehicle costs.

July 3 - The Detroit News

Major League Baseball is coming to one of six North American cities, and each proposal reflects a different aspect of both urban and suburban communities' constant push for prominence.

July 3 - Yahoo! Newswire

A remarkable reconstruction effort is underway in Dresden, Germany, a city destroyed during the Second World War.

July 3 - INTBAU

While the Indian city is known for its unique national park system, the pressure of an expanding population has led to a string of horrific maulings.

July 3 - Reuters

Single women are the second biggest category of homebuyers, outpacing single men

July 3 - Realtor Magazine Online

A new index shows which U.S. cities are pocketbook friendly when it comes to courtship.

July 2 - MSN

A "smart growth equity fund" brings together housing and employment for middle-income households in L.A.

July 2 - Social Investment News

As London considers adding more skyscrapers to its city center, some worry that the city may lose its unique character — can high-rises coexist with 19th-century offices and rowhomes without harming the urban fabric?

July 2 - The New York Times

A proposed personal monorail and advanced cellphone technology would reduce Palo Alto office park SOV commute trips and reclaim parking spaces for in-fill housing.

July 2 - San Jose Mercury News

A traffic simulation system is accurately predicting jams on Germany's autobahn network up to an hour before they happen.

July 2 - New Scientist

After several delays, the four-mile, $654 million Las Vegas monorail is set to open to the public on July 15th.

July 2 - Las Vegas Review Journal

With the increase in the Fed's interest rate, there is much speculation that the housing bubble in the Bay Area is about to burst

July 2 - The San Francisco Chronicle

By the end of 2005, Milwaukee will boast eight design-savvy new bridges.

July 2 - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

A new law being considered in King County, WA, will restrict residents from building on more 10 percent of their land.

July 2 - FOX News

While the Eternal City is slowly being repainted in more 'historically accurate' shades, many citizens claim the policy deprives the city of its 'soul.'

July 2 - Yahoo! Newswire

BLOG POST

We have a <a href="http://www.planetizen.com/tech/archives/2004/06/29/95/">Planning Markup Language</a>. Adam Rogers proposed a "<a href="http://www.planetizen.com/tech/archives/2004/07/01/100/">Real World Markup Language</a>". Why stop at inanimate objects? Enter the "<a href="http://www.humanmarkup.org/">Human Markup Language</a>". <br /> <br /> <code>&lt;world&gt; &lt;/world&gt;</code><br />

July 1 - Abhijeet Chavan

BLOG POST

Chris has been <a href="http://www.planetizen.com/tech/archives/2004/06/29/93/">flacking</a> the idea of metadata specific to urban planning and related fields for a while now (and hey, if you go read that <a href="http://www.planning.org/planningpractice/1999/feb99.htm">article</a> from planning, ignore the lead -- I just re-read it and, well, what can I say except I was just a kid when I wrote it).<br /> <br /> So the basic notion is pretty cool: all the data that an architect, planner, contractor, builder, etc.

July 1 - Anonymous

Two British firms are designing new ways to organize space in dense urban neighborhoods: one through pre-fab construction, the other through an efficiently modern take on one-bedroom living. Both plans aim to bring high-quality, low-cost housing to cities

July 1 - The Independent Weekly

Britain's Halley Station on the Brunt Ice Shelf will drift off to sea by 2010. The Royal Institute of British Architects will accept proposals for a new station to be built by 2008.

July 1 - CNN