The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

A 200-mile high-speed rail line is spurring development in the rural counties along the island's west coast.

July 29 - Taipei Times

Chinese towns are developing nearly overnight into megacities -- but at tremendous economic, social and environmental costs.

July 29 - The New York Times

California Secretary of Business, Transportation & Housing details the Schwarzenegger Administration's efforts to fight dumb growth.

July 29 - The Planning Report

How does a small town encourage the vitality of its downtown while preserving its small-town feel?

July 29 - The Seattle Times

Patrick T. Reardon and Blair Kamin list the best-looking and ugliest buildings in Chicago's world-famous Loop.

July 29 - The Chicago Tribune

The high court has been asked to decide whether the use of eminent domain in non-blighted areas for economic development violates the Fifth Amendment.

July 29 - Yahoo! Newswire

A new e-planning system will receive applications for home alteration and objections to developments online.

July 29 - BBC News

Fifteen acres of prime real estate sits in limbo as the city scrambles to find developers.

July 29 - The Cincinnati Enquirer

Activist residents are changing the way developers do business.

July 28 - The Detroit News

Western cities go beyond dams to pump water hundreds of miles from their expanding borders.

July 28 - USA Today

Efforts to protect the largest monument in the United States---the Gateway Arch in St. Louis---from terrorist attacks are complicated by architectural criticisms and lack of opportunity for public comment.

July 28 - St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A majority of Fort Lauderdale City Commissioners agreed on July 26 to allow more than 13,000 new residential units to be built in the city's urban core.

July 28 - Sun-Sentinel

Delays, inconvenience and inefficient service force LA Times reporter to abandon use of Pasadena Gold Line.

July 28 - The Los Angeles Times

This New Urbanist community attempts to replicate historic Charleston without the human gumbo.

July 28 - American Society Of Landscape Architects

Cities consider selling naming rights to subway stations, bus lines, bridges and tunnels.

July 28 - The New York Times

Grass or trees? A recent study finds that home buyers might like a view of the woods better than a view of a lawn.

July 28 - University Of Michigan

UK local authorities are felling trees and clearing undergrowth in city parks, citing risks of crime and litigation, but in doing so, they reduce the variety of species and habitats in the parks which are vital to city dwellers.

July 28 - The Guardian Unlimited

Cleanup efforts for the dirtiest nuclear site in the U.S. have a 50% chance of a major accident, according to a new report.

July 28 - New Scientist

BLOG POST

Thanks to my friend Noah Shachtman at <a href="http://www.defensetech.org/archives/001042.html">Defense Tech</a>, now I know about <a href="http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/news_events/exhibits/futuristics/index.html">Transportation Futuristics</a>, an ongoing exhibit up the street from me at the University of California at Berkeley. It's chock-full of pictures like this one:<br /> <br /> <img src="http://www.planetizen.com/tech/files//misc_airail_01.jpg" alt="" /> <br /> <br /> All kinds of wacky transport concepts that never, you should pardon the expression, got anywhere.

July 27 - Anonymous

This New York Times editorial calls for the toughening of environmental rules to address park haze -- industrial air pollution that is carried over to parks by the wind.

July 27 - The New York Times