The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Debate rages over whether Cornell's College of Architecture, Art and Planning should be saved. Are the three disciplines too far removed from one another?

November 4 - Cornell University

Secession efforts in the nation's second-largest city appear doomed to failure.

November 4 - The Los Angeles Times

Allowing deregulated telecommunications companies the power of eminent domain to build-out the "Information Superhighway" abrogates the Constitutional contract of just compensation.

November 4 - Planning and Markets

This is the question facing voters in communities throughout California: To grow or not.

November 4 - The Los Angeles Times

A University of Minnesota professor has received funding to test an electric-powered, automated system of small cabs.

November 4 - Star Tribune

Who wins and who loses after selfish development decisions are tallied?

November 4 - Planetizen

According to this New York Times book review, Keith Bradsher's book, "High and Mighty: SUV - The World's Most Dangerous Vehicles and How They Got That Way" is sobering, infuriating and necessary.

November 4 - The New York Times

While New York struggles with new toilet proposals, London's City of Westminster is using a novel solution

November 4 - The Guardian Unlimited

Over the next eight years, EU member governments will double the amount of rail linking EU countries and introduce higher-speed trains traveling up to 217 miles per hour.

November 4 - Business Week

Anthony Palazzolo has fought Rhode Island for over 40 years in what has become the quintessential battle over property rights.

November 4 - The Boston Globe

FEATURE

Who wins and who loses after selfish development decisions are tallied?

November 4 - Susan Hallatt

Hans Lind, writing in the academic journal, Planning & Markets, identifies the five specific types of market-oriented planning.

November 3 - Planning and Markets

The November 2002 issue of Carfree Times is now available.

November 3 - Carfree Times

A city in transition, Pittsburgh is striving to diversify its economy and become an urban success story.

November 3 - Urban Land Magazine

How does Portland, Oregon avoid the rush to urban sprawl when it relaxes its fabled no-growth boundary?

November 3 - American Society Of Landscape Architects

Old-line businesses have regulations that protect their turf.

November 2 - Inman News

A region's sewer mains provide a rough map of future development. In Sacramento, CA, this map is heating up.

November 2 - Sacramento Business Journal

The futuristic Jetsons-era technology of monorail systems isn't just for Disney nostalgia or Simpsons' parodies. Monorails are actually viable urban transit alternatives to light rail and subways.

November 2 - Slate

Anthony Downs speaks at MIT on the impact of government regulations on affordable housing.

November 2 - AnthonyDowns.Com

A Miami Herald columnist is annoyed at a group that ranked the 50 United States in order of intelligence. Florida ranked 47th.

November 1 - The Miami Herald