The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

By 2020, over 68 million riders would use a statewide bullet train connecting Los Angeles and San Francisco. But is $37-billion too much?

January 28 - The Los Angeles Times

Lithuania's past complicates the restoration of its capital's historic center.

January 28 - MetropolisMag.com

Speculative business parks aimed at ownership by small businesses are a hot new market.

January 28 - Wall St. Journal

One of a series of articles by The Washington Post that examines ways to ease traffic congestion without spending the vast sums required for major projects.

January 28 - The Washington Post

New Urban News year-end survey finds 37 percent annual growth in new urban planning and construction.

January 28 - New Urban News

In our car-oriented culture, it's hard to find a truly awful car anymore. Forbes produces its list of the worst cars of all time.

January 28 - Forbes

McCook County Commission voted 4-1 to support new sign language town in South Dakota.

January 28 - Mitchell Republic

Fred Kent of the Project for Public Spaces discusses the elements and essentials of place making.

January 27 - The Planning Report

Los Angeles has two of the most ecologically advanced buildings in the country -- and both are competing for the title of the greenest building in America.

January 27 - The Los Angeles Times

Utah lawmakers consider a 5 cent increase in state gas tax to fund transportation needs

January 27 - The Salt Lake Tribune

As many as a third of the nation's 1,000 malls are obsolete. A new specialty is emerging for experts in reviving second-tier malls.

January 27 - Wall St. Journal

Lessons learned from a memorial to another kind of terror.

January 27 - MetropolisMag.com

The American Podiatric Medical Association releases its list of the ten best cities for walking.

January 27 - American Podiatric Medical Association

A new study finds that living in Toronto's suburbs may actually be more expensive than in the central city.

January 27 - The Toronto Star

Building new schools ought to serve as the foundation for community development, write David Abel and Jonathan Fielding.

January 27 - The Los Angeles Times

'Most of the nearly 300 acres of Boston's city parks that Big Dig officials promised to win support for the massive project are not finished and many are not scheduled to be done until after the roadway project is completed next year.'

January 27 - The Boston Globe

CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight features a segment on the lack of attention given to highway funding in the U.S.

January 27 - CNN

Several school districts invest in a new approach to raising funds.

January 26 - St. Paul Pioneer Press

As a generation shops for retirement homes, the US building industry thrives.

January 26 - The Christian Science Monitor

With two-bedroom sustainable kit homes priced from AUD$63,000 (around USD$50,000) plus labour, they are becoming a real housing alternative.

January 26 - The Australian