The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels hopes new streetcar line will support new bio-tech campus

January 21 - The Seattle Times

Natural River proposal is first test of Granholm promise.

January 21 - Michigan Land Use Institute

San Francisco is the first city to ban the Segway Human Transporter on its sidewalks.

January 21 - Wired

Does $27 million in public subsidy for a superstore make for good economic development policy?

January 21 - The Philadelphia Inquirer

A Boston Globe editorial comes out squarely against sprawl.

January 21 - The Boston Globe

The New York Post reports that talks to transfer the WTC site to the city are underway.

January 21 - New York Post

Is the Minnesota Department of Transportation corrupt, or just under a lot of pressure to build roads fast?

January 21 - Star Tribune

In response to a letter suggesting white-collar crooks be forced to live in public housing and ride public transit, the author says riding the bus is a privilege, not a punishment.

January 21 - The Oregonian

Maya Riviera's ecology has been 'concessionized'. Now, new development at a popular Mexican destination threatens ecological disaster.

January 21 - The Los Angeles Times

Columnist Steve Duin of The Oregonian follows the case of seemingly misused historic tax breaks in Portland.

January 20 - The Oregonian

The world's first commercial high-speed Maglev train takes 8 minutes to complete a trip that takes 45 minutes by car.

January 20 - Wired

City of the Century chronicles Chicago's dramatic transformation from a swampy frontier town of fur traders and Native Americans to a massive metropolis that was the quintessential American city of the nineteenth century.

January 20 - PBS

Some Hollywood celebrities are buying new hybrid cars but others who claim to support environmental causes are energy hogs travelling in limos and private jets.

January 20 - The New York Times

Most of that land in the US is not where the people are, or are headed. Cities on the coasts are overcrowded; rural heartland communities are dying.

January 20 - The Atlantic Monthly

As New Urbanism catches on in New Zealand, some experts worry about the popularity of exclusive, gated, walled, and segregated subdivisions developed to create a "sense of community."

January 20 - Stuff, New Zealand

Last month's World Trade Center reconstruction proposals reveal that the architecture profession is hopelessly mired in a failed past.

January 20 - Planetizen

The Bush administration is quietly eroding environmental protection laws in favor of landowners and corporations.

January 20 - The Guardian Unlimited

Professional Builder Magazine gives, then withdraws, award to APA for its Growing Smart Project.

January 20 - American Planning Association

Is Boston's preoccupation with history resulting in timid, dull, and ugly architecture?

January 20 - The Boston Globe

FEATURE

Last month's World Trade Center reconstruction proposals reveal that the architecture profession's avant-garde is hopelessly mired in a failed past.

January 20 - Nikos Salingaros and Michael Mehaffy