The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

The permitting process is one that lends itself to automation, and moving to an e-permitting system has the potential to reap huge rewards.

June 1 - American Planning Association

Long considered an eyesore, New York's Atlantic Center mall is being remade.

May 31 - The New York Times

Purchasers don't always consider all of the facts when choosing a new home on a wide-shallow lot.

May 31 - The Toronto Star

New partnership initiative makes demographic data available to planners at considerably lower cost.

May 31 - The Toronto Star

One of the Scottsdale's most controversial pieces of land may become an ASU's research campus.

May 31 - The Arizona Republic

Community design is a movement focused on the creation and management ofenvironments for people.

May 31 - Association For Community Design

FEATURE

While growth is inevitable, the overcrowding and overuse of transportation is not. Using technology in conjunction with politics, private transportation will be more efficient using centralized computing to clear current roadways.

May 31 - Oded Roth

Frank Gehry faced a different set of challenges in designing for MIT's famously reclusive professors.

May 30 - The Financial Times

"Succulent visuals, spatial invention, and commercial cred"? Elizabeth Farrelly looks into Australia’s first five-star-rated eco-sustainable office building.

May 30 - The Sydney Morning Herald

The Bush administration is considering the economic trade-offs of cleaner-burning gasoline.

May 30 - The Victoria Advocate

At Copenhagen Consensus, economists devise a Top 10 list of most pressing global problems.

May 30 - The Christian Science Monitor

Will Starwood Urban's funky portfolio fetch a superfunky $500 million?

May 30 - The Slatin Report

John King reviews the 15 pound Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture. American architecture doesn't fare particularly well.

May 29 - The San Francisco Chronicle

Governance review by the province holds promise of new powers needed to get on with implementing its mandate.

May 29 - The Toronto Star

In less than two years Gwinnett, Geogia has approved 76 cluster development plans that put aside 1,718 total acres of open space.

May 29 - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

California Governor Schwarzenegger signs a "Transit Village" bill.

May 29 - San Jose Mercury News

Smart breeding could remake the field of agriculture, and change how the world farms.

May 29 - Wired

BLOG POST

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May 28 - Ken Snyder

Emphasizing jobs and the environment a plan aims to revitalize Milwaukee's Menomonee Valley.

May 28 - Shepherd Express

After tracing U.S. health problems to Ssrawl, researchers look to planning for health solutions.

May 28 - University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill