The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Tom Angotti asks whether As-of-Right development is an invitation to ethical breaches.

June 21 - The Gotham Gazette

Discarding the drabness of the Soviet era, Muscovites redocorate homes with Western-style individuality.

June 21 - The Washington Post

The new urbanism has long been marked by confident assertions and bold rhetoric -- hyperbole or hype?

June 20 - The Town Paper

A study by the Greenbelt Alliance urges Contra Costa County, CA, to fight sprawl.

June 20 - Contra Costa Times-Walnut Creek

Two veteran reporters publish a list of the '10 main ways that the government spins the public,' and offer their guide to interpreting the spin.

June 20 - Orange County Register

Architec Richard Meier adds two glass towers with loft-like apartments to the West Village.

June 20 - The New York Times

Reason Director of Transportation Bob Poole presents his plan to tackle congestion through a seamless network of high occupancy toll lanes.

June 20 - Reason Public Policy Institute

An analysis of sprawl in Contra Costa County, CA, and opportunities for smart growth.

June 20 - Greenbelt Alliance

Compact forms of development are better for the environment and healthier, says a panel at the 11th annual CNU conference.

June 20 - The Boston Globe

After 15 years, the original planners of Kentlands return the pioneering New Urbanist community.

June 20 - The Washington Post

Small rural towns get a new name -- and new attention.

June 20 - The Christian Science Monitor

The White House has edited an upcoming EPA report, replacing references to the human impact on global warming with a study partly financed by the American Petroleum Institute.

June 20 - The New York Times

One-time charges against new development foster growth by providing an increased and predictable supply of buildable land, according to a Brookings Report.

June 20 - The Brookings Institution

Ryan Dilley tests the lawnmower-shaped scooter on Britain's less-than-perfect sidewalks.

June 19 - BBC News

A ruling overturns a provision designed to curb the conversion of single-family homes into rental units in Newark for University of Delaware students.

June 19 - Denver Business Journal

The Halls River Retreat developer is reviving his 54-unit proposal for a mixed-use development, based on Citrus County's land development code that allows mixed use -- something no longer allowed in the County's Comprehensive Plan.

June 19 - The St. Petersburg Times

Oregon passes a 'deceptively minor traffic revision' into law that gives pedestrians new rights when they cross the street.

June 19 - The Register-Guard

New housing types inspired by New Urbanism comes to San Marcos, CA.

June 19 - The San Diego Union-Tribune

Approaching commercial build-out, a gateway community to the Canadian Rockies looks for ways to keep it local by limiting multinational firms.

June 19 - Calgary Herald

Neal Peirce reviews the Memphis Manifesto that encourages cities to become "communities of ideas" by attracting the "creative class."

June 19 - The Washington Post Writers Group