The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Despite vocal opposition, SUVs invade Europe.

November 18 - The New York Times

Ground-level ozone, a common form of air pollution long linked to breathing problems, is being blamed for thousands of premature deaths each year in a new study of 95 urban areas.

November 18 - The Philadelphia Inquirer

A local water district that has criticized rapid growth and the availabilities of water supplies may be dissolved.

November 18 - The Los Angeles Times

Citizens across the country voted on how they want their communities to grow.

November 18 - The Washington Post Writers Group

The new Time Warner Center will cost $1.8 billion and become the most expensive single building ever planted in American soil.

November 18 - Newsday

Thirty-six thoughts on reviving ailing cities.

November 18 - Urban Paradoxes

After reviewing the familiar red/blue election map, The Stranger concludes that urban liberals live in the Urban Archipelago, the United Cities of America.

November 18 - The Stranger

At a dinner held by Cleveland's University Circle, Inc., a potential patron launced an unexpected 15-minute critique.

November 18 - The Cleveland Plain Dealer

Map makers have long searched for a way to construct cartograms -- maps in which the sizes of geographic regions such as countries or provinces appear in proportion to their population or some other analogous property.

November 18 - ArXiv

After more than a decade of study, the first Business Improvement District is approved in the United Kingdom; safety, environment, promotion and transport are priorities.

November 17 - BBC News

A bank robber escaped from a Chinatown heist into BART's underground tunnels, forcing part of the system to shutdown for four hours.

November 17 - The San Francisco Chronicle

A progressive industrial park on the banks of the Nile aims to restore the balance between economic growth and environmental quality.

November 17 - Ode Magazine

The 'New American Home' was built in accordance with the 2001 Florida Building Code, and withstood the recent Florida hurricanes.

November 17 - National Association of Home Builders

A Caltech physicist warns that fossil fuels -- and time -- are running out.

November 17 - Caltech News

The greatest moral threat to the United States is not gay marriage, writes Derrick Jackson, but the inability to live within our means in a world of want.

November 17 - The Boston Globe

An overhaul of the widely-recognized metropolitan classification system by the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) will refashion the both research and federal spending.

November 17 - The Brookings Institution

Urban areas have been devastated by conscious and deliberate policies of government - now a reverse policy set is needed.

November 17 - RISMedia

A slice of pre-gentrified life in a Washington, DC neighborhood.

November 17 - The Washington Post

Researchers at the University of Michigan prepare a fascinating set of maps and 'cartograms' showing the results from the 2004 presidential election.

November 17 - University Of Michigan

BLOG POST

I keep saying, urban life is not for the faint of heart. New article in the <em>Journal of the American Medical Association</em> (<a href="http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/292/19/2372?view=abstractfp=2372&vol=292&lookupType=volpage">here's</a> the abstract; fulltext is subscriber-only) says that elevated ozone events correlate to increased deaths. <br /> <br /> <img src="http://www.planetizen.com/tech/files//jtw40039f2.gif" alt="" /> <br /> <br /> They looked at 95 cities; here's the salient bit from the abstract:<br /> <blockquote>A 10-ppb increase in the previous week�s ozone was associated with a 0.52% increase in daily mortality (95% posterior interval [PI], 0.27%-0.77%) and a 0.64% increase in cardiovascular and respiratory mortality (95% PI, 0.31%-0.98%).</blockquote>

November 16 - Anonymous