The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

A scorecard system being discussed in Denver offers a market-based alternative to zoning for encouraging smart growth.

March 31 - The Denver Post

General Motors Canada has pulled an ad campaign suggesting that transit buses are full of "creeps and weirdos."

March 31 - The Vancouver Sun

FEATURE

How government policies have inadvertently sabotaged public transit.

March 31 - Michael Lewyn

A documentary explores the life of the great American architect Louis I. Kahn.

March 30 - The New York Times

Homeless advocates say New York City's estimate of 1,780 homeless living in the streets of Manhattan is too low.

March 30 - The New York Times

Requiring Los Angeles housing developers to include low-income units is good policy, a report concludes.

March 30 - The Los Angeles Times

The Charleston Council of 2002 featured an open discussion on the issue of style and building.

March 30 - The Town Paper

After 16 years of drafting, spending, and defending, part of the Big Dig opens Sunday, stoking an urban revolution.

March 30 - The Christian Science Monitor

Nearly all of Md. 32 to the south and east of the "new town" of Columbia has been upgraded to a freeway - should the section west and north of Columbia also be upgraded?

March 29 - The Baltimore Sun

Robert Norfleet, a retired banker, asks if local governments in the Richmond, Virginia metropolitan area can cooperate across jurisdictional boundaries, even when conflicts and disputes arise.

March 29 - Richmond Times-Dispatch

Military installations are being threatened by uncontrolled land development and states are reacting with a number of sound approaches.

March 29 - National Governor's Association

Broward County officials are concerned about the overdevelopment along the county's 23-mile shoreline.

March 29 - Sun-Sentinel

Especially relevant in light of current world events, this essay examines Byzantine and Islamic building codes that have provided the legal andcultural foundations of Mediterranean urbanism.

March 29 - The Town Paper

Wal-Mart opens a company-designed and managed subdivision on the outskirts of Cleveland, Ohio.

March 28 - Future Feed Foward

Governor Jennifer Granholm's Michigan Land Use Leadership Council met for the first time in Lansing, MI.

March 28 - Michigan Land Use Institute

What happens when an affluent suburb like Scottsdale, Arizona, runs out of land?

March 28 - Solimar Research Group

San Francisco Bay has been shrinking. The effort to restore its health could be the largest wetlands restorating project in the West.

March 28 - National Public Radio

Minnesotan Democratic Congressman Martin Olav Sabo argues that Bush Administration proposals framed as matters of military readiness and patriotism are just the latest efforts to roll back environmental laws.

March 28 - Tom Paine - Common Sense

It's opening day for the core of Boston's massive Big Dig project.

March 28 - National Public Radio

The Iraq War and homeland security concerns are expected to strain the budgets of cash-strapped U.S. states and cities.

March 28 - Reuters