The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

State officials got an earful at a hearing held yesterday in Boston regarding their proposal to reevaluate the three remaining transit projects promised as mitigation for the reconstruction of the Central Artery.

December 16 - Boston Herald

'Immortal Cities: Children of the Nile' is a new SimCity-like computer game -- set in ancient Egypt.

December 16 - Time

The area around the Baltimore-Washington International Airport attracts new growth.

December 16 - The Washington Post

Los Angeles Koreatown, once a less-than desirable neighborhood, has become a destination for wealthy tourists and suburbanites.

December 16 - The Los Angeles Times

Will ten acres of Olmstead's green space become a tot lot and dog run?

December 16 - The Chicago Tribune

Weblogs are helping the World Wide Web realize its potential, writes Planetizen editor Abhijeet Chavan.

December 16 - Planetizen

biographers debate Columbia developer James W. Rouse's legacy.

December 16 - The Baltimore Sun

Some people take pictures to capture memories; Kara Newman make check marks on a subway map.

December 16 - The Christian Science Monitor

FEATURE

Weblogs are helping the World Wide Web realize its potential, writes Planetizen co-founder and editor, Abhijeet Chavan.

December 16 - Abhijeet Chavan

BLOG POST

Walt <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,personal_technology,00.html">writes</a> (subscription required, unfortunately) in the <i>Wall Street Journal</i>: <br /> <br /> <blockquote>"The most important development this year in U.S. wireless communications wasn't the headline-grabbing mergers of various wireless carriers. It was the quiet, gradual rollout by Verizon Wireless of a technology called EV-DO, which for the first time is providing broadband-speed Internet access over the air from anywhere in the cities where it has been deployed."</blockquote>

December 15 - Chris Steins

New version moves planning from the conceptual stage to the feasibility stage.

December 15 - The Chicago Tribune

Real estate investment trusts (REITs) are facing strong competition for investment dollars.

December 15 - The Slatin Report

Measure 37&#146;s passage means lots of lawsuits, and little else

December 15 - Michigan Land Use Institute

The stunning Millau Bridge -- the world's new tallest road bridge -- opens in southern France.

December 15 - The Christian Science Monitor

A new directive from the Department of Defense eliminates any need for the Pentagon to be responsible for public health or toxic site cleanups.

December 15 - Truthout

Line Magazine publishes collection of articles analyzing parking architecture, design and policy.

December 15 - Line Magazine

Neal Peirce shows how the innocuous language in Oregon's Measure 37 conceals the potential to turn the State into an "eruption of Burger Kings and Wal-Marts."

December 15 - The Seattle Times

At just under one-half mile tall, construction is set to begin on the Burj Dubai skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

December 15 - New Scientist

Tax assessors are taking a bigger bite out of household finances. Now taxpayers may be "biting back."

December 15 - The Christian Science Monitor

Ada Louise Huxtable reviews the new Museum of Modern Art -- "the right building for New York."

December 15 - Wall St. Journal