The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Neal Peirce reviews Boston's Indicators Project which provides high quality data and information about Boston.

March 20 - Citistates Group

Building owners and architects are coming up with innovative strategies to protect commercial buildings.

March 20 - St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The accuracy of the Global Positioning System for civilian uses may be intentionally degraded during wartime.

March 20 - Space Daily

The American Society of Landscape Architects has announced a Call For Entries for its 2003 Awards in design, analysis and planning, research, and communications.

March 19 - Lawn And Landscape

Say goodbye to unmonitored public spaces. The average person is filmed by more than 300 cameras each day.

March 19 - Technology Review

A team from the University of Cincinnati is digitally recreating seventeen centuries old geometric structures.

March 19 - Wired

A new book probes America's newest metropolitan form by examining the growth and spatial structure of office development in 13 large U.S. markets.

March 19 - The Brookings Institution

Residents of sunny Green Valley are living longer...and facing hard times.

March 19 - The New York Times

A little-known, Pentagon-run civilian force will be responsible for spearheading the effort to rebuilding Iraq's infrastructure.

March 19 - The Los Angeles Times

As memorials proliferate in crowded Lower Manhattan, planners and architects sound a note of caution.

March 19 - The New York Times

For years we’ve debated how big our local governments ought to be — without factoring in economic development.

March 19 - California Planning and Development Report

Republicans are having trouble getting enough votes for allowing drilling the the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

March 19 - Star Tribune

New technologies attempt to predict congestion and help drivers steer clear.

March 19 - Technology Review

Anti-sprawl efforts in King County, WA, use an innovative financial model

March 18 - The Seattle Post-Intelligencer

A new PPIC report analyzes the issues and opportunities confronting three of the state's major infrastructure responsibilities--education, water, and transportation.

March 18 - Public Policy Institute of California

The White House's economic plan compromises the Historic Preservation Tax Credit program, writes Richard Moe in a WSJ editorial.

March 18 - Wall St. Journal

Value-pricing a way out of traffic jams using special lanes.

March 18 - The Christian Science Monitor

The average urban driver spends 62 hours sitting in traffic. Riders on the elevated Metrorail look on the congested traffic below as entertainment.

March 18 - The Miami Herald

Building more freeways only promotes sprawl and worsens traffic. Here's why investing in public transportation makes sense...

March 18 - The Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Readers respond to article that claims some anti-sprawl measures only add to sprawl.

March 18 - The Washington Post