The Daily Source of Urban Planning News
Rebuilding WTC: Readers Respond
A selection of letters written to the New York Times in response to an article about rebuilding the World Trade Center.
New York: A Gothic Memorial
Despite market forces, thought must be given to a memorial on the site of the WTC.
Making Skyscrapers Safer
Learning from the collapse of the World Trade Center towers, architects and engineers are beginning to design new features to make tall buildings safer.
Do We Need Skyscrapers?
Does doing without tall buildings mean contributing to sprawl?
Police Escorts For Concrete Trucks In Manhattan
Trucks carrying concrete must reach their destination within 90 minutes. Due to traffic jams on Manhattan streets and bridges, the city is considering police escorts for concrete trucks and new concrete plants.
Landmark Land-use Ruling Has Statewide Impacts
Appellate court ruling that Villas at Pinecrest Lakes must be demolished due to inconsistency with Martin County's Comprehensive Plan is a landmark decision that will have an impact on growth management decisions and developers statewide.
New Urbanism Comes To Pennsylvania
A Pennsylvania new urbanism association aims to change Philadephia's sprawling subdivisions.
Seattle Light-rail Line Approved
Sound's Transit board approves plans for a $2.1 billion, 14-mile light-rail system from downtown Seattle to Tukwila.
How Safe Are Our Skyscrapers?
Experts at MIT suggest methods for construction that would prevent catastrophic collapses like that at the World Trade Center.
Atlantic Station: A New Atlanta Envisioned
Huge $2 billion development project will take a decade to complete.
L.A.'s Challenge: To Secede Or Not To Secede
Will secession rip apart a city that is finally beginning to be strong, flexible and responsive?
Urban Village Opens In Pasadena, CA
Paseo Colorado is a New Urbanism project that covers three blocks of Colorado Blvd. Will the retail-residential work?
Architects Need To Rethink Building Design
MIT faculty agree that the terrorists understood the structural weekness of the WTC buildings and exploited it.
Mayor Hahn Involved In Dividing Up L.A.
The Mayor of Los Angeles and the City Council want a say in what goes before voters in 2002 regarding secession.
Rebuilding Subway Near WTC Could Take Years
The damage to subway near the World Trade Center in New York is so severe that damaged sections will have to be completely rebuilt and could take more than two years.
Healing New York With Architecture
The debate continues over what should be built at the site of the World Trade Center in New York and who gets to decide.
Architects, Designers, Meet To Discuss WTC Rebuilding
Design professionals met to discuss ideas for rebuilding the World Trade Center in New York.
Home Depot Ballot Box Planning
The Home Depot takes its case directly to voters for a new store in Mountain View, California.
Attacks Will Change Nature Of Work Space
The terrorist attacks are changing the way architects and planners are thinking about the new look of the American workplace.
Security, Not Expansion, New Airport Focus
The controversial $12-billion plan to expand LAX and accomodate more flights, is to be redrawn to focus on security.
City of Thousand Oaks
City of Wisconsin Rapids
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
The Architects Foundation
University of Cincinnati Online
The Pocatello Development Authority
The Urban Renewal Agency of the City of Pocatello
FREE Course: Walkable City 1: Why Walkability?
After describing his path towards focusing on walkability as the essence of good planning, Jeff Speck marches through his five principal reasons for making more walkable places.
Reinventing Malls: Planning Alchemy—Turning Gray Fields Into Gold
The course focuses on the opportunities and imperatives that shape reinvention of mall sites.
