The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Americans are shocked to discover that the country's highways are subsidized by Big Government at the taxpayer's expense.

December 25 - The Beast

For 21 years this urban St. Nick has been delighting visitors to the South Street Seaport in New York.

December 25 - The New York Times

Swiss architectural firm Herzog & de Meuron have designed a new parking garage for Miami that attempt to engage the public with a shockingly open-air design.

December 25 - Financial Times

Low-tech Magazine details the history of the trolley canal boat, a staple of the past for transporting goods down canals and waterways. Could something like this make a comeback?

December 25 - Low-tech Magazine

A public-private partnership has come together to fund a 3.4-mile light rail line through Detroit's commercial district, and convinced the Feds to bend the rules a little to bring it to reality.

December 25 - the transport politic

Roger Scruton compares American and European ways of regulating aesthetics in buildings.

December 24 - The American Enterprise Institute

Instead of encouraging shopping, as the city had hoped, free downtown parking has been occupied by downtown workers.

December 24 - NBC News - Providence

A new report from PikeResearch predicts the future for electric vehicles in 2010, including the prediction that hybrids will dominate the market.

December 24 - Renewable Energy World

The California Preservation Foundation and the National Park Service are funding a cultural survey of Route 66, which could result in several new national landmarks along the old highway.

December 24 - The Los Angeles Times

Malcolm Wells was a pioneer of sustainable design, with an emphasis on green roofs and underground buildings. He died recently at the age of 83.

December 24 - Design Boom

BLOG POST

<p> Even more so than usual, few people will be receiving buildings as gifts this season.  They&#39;re too expensive, you can’t return them, and, notwithstanding Barbie’s Dream House, they probably won&#39;t fit under your tree.  But still, this Yuletide affords ample opportunity to take stock of the works that have arisen in this most momentous of decades.  </p>

December 23 - Josh Stephens

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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%"><span style="font-family: Calibri">A friend of mine who&#39;s a biophysicist popped in to see me the other day. <span> </span>He was all excited and showed me his “patent pending” letter for his newest invention.

December 23 - Steven Polzin

Robert Campbell argues that Boston's planned expansion of the convention center should be mixed-use and urban in nature.

December 23 - The Boston Globe

The designers of New York's popular High Line park have a radical new proposal for Cleveland's Public Square that turns the one square into four new ones.

December 23 - Fast Company

Financial analysts in China say that the country is spending far too much money - to the tune of $229 billion - on its nationwide high-speed passenger-rail network.

December 23 - The New York Times

Civil rights activists sued CalTrans for failing to provide wheelchair ramps across the state. In federal court yesterday, CalTrans settled with the groups, agreeing to over a billion dollars in access improvements over 30 years.

December 23 - The Los Angeles Times

Vandergrift, PA was a company town designed by Frederick Law Olmsted in 1895. Today, the town is looking back to Olmsted's original plan to improve the town's sustainability.

December 23 - ASLA's The Dirt blog

Dipping into Colorado's census information reveals 7,000 new farms in the state, in addition to other surprising statistics.

December 23 - The Denver Post

Arterial intersections around Martin County, Florida may soon see 7-11s and gas stations as county officials prepare a new growth plan.

December 23 - The Palm Beach Post

Nicolai Ourousoff pays a visit to an exhibit at Yale that looks back at 'Learning From Las Vegas,' the famed book on Sin City architecture from the 1970s.

December 23 - The New York Times