The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

The European Investment Bank raised $80 billion for projects last year alone. Should the Obama’s proposed program adopt a similar model?

October 11 - Streetsblog

Richard Florida argues that edge cities ravaged by the recession should take cues from urban development patterns to spur growth.

October 11 - The Wall Street Journal

Under pressure from DOT Secretary Ray LaHood, N.J. Gov. Chris Christie has authorized the Hudson River rail tunnel project known as ARC: Access to the Region's Core, to resume work. Key to the decision would have been the loss of $3 billion to N.J.

October 11 - Lautenberg Press Office

FEATURE

CEOs for Cities recently published a blistering criticism of The Texas Transportation Institute's "Urban Mobility Report", saying that the way they measure mobility helps justify sprawl. Norman W. Garrick says CEOs for Cities doesn't go far enough.

October 11 - Norman Garrick

A Brookings Study of census data finds that since 2000, the number of poor people in the suburbs jumped by 37.4% to 13 million and "the growth rate of suburban poverty is more than double that of cities."

October 11 - Los Angeles Times

San Diego's mayor has announced he's recommending the city pull the plug on art funding for the time being, triggering a debate over the role of public art in society.

October 11 - Voice of San Diego

In the face of a recent report showing that sprawl was rapidly eating up developable land in New Jersey, developers have begun to ditch the McMansion in favor of taller and more dense projects.

October 11 - The New York Times

It appears to be a case of brinkmanship between suburban Nassau County and the regional Metropolitan Transportation Authority over how to fund Long Island Bus, with riders and workers the only sure losers.

October 11 - Streetsblog

Next June, Paris will begin a test phase of a citywide electric car-sharing program.

October 11 - Der Spiegel

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October 10 - Rick Abelson

Yonah Freemark reports that there are more politically palatable ways to ease traffic congestion than congestion pricing.

October 10 - the transport politic

CNN's Richard Quest takes an incredulous look at the changes brewing in Los Angeles as downtown revitalizes and the city densifies.

October 10 - CNN

While other parts of the country see economic improvement, Las Vegas continues to experience the deepest crisis of its modern history. Is its leisure-based economy to blame?

October 10 - The New York Times

The city's 10-year ban on construction of new signage is challenged as the local billboard industry asks to replace traditional models with digital technology.

October 10 - The Dallas Morning News

Josh Leon reports on his time "around two instructive pieces of vertical architecture that could presumably be competitors in a transoceanic race between the US and China for economic hegemony."

October 10 - Next American City

Paul Krugman bemoans the death of the Access to the Region's Core project. He says it is symptomatic of a national resistance to address critical infrastructure and economic challenges.

October 9 - The New York Times

Nicolai Ouroussoff, The New York Times' architecture critic, argues that philistine planning decisions such as the one that restricted the height of Jean Nouvel's proposed tower last month, "risk transforming a living city into an urban mausoleum."

October 9 - The New York Times

Ben Brown reads Robert Putnam's new book, which explores the ways in which religion in the U.S. causes greater intolerance but simultaneously a greater civic engagement and likelihood of helping others through charitable acts.

October 9 - PlaceShakers

<em>The New Republic</em> offers a look and review of some of the nation's best new urban parks.

October 9 - The New Republic

This podcast features a discussion with designer Bruce Mau, who talks about sustainability and why he loves the suburbs.

October 9 - Climate Desk