The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

A waterfront redevelopment project in Port Harcourt is drawing fire from human rights advocates.

November 5 - The Guardian

On Tuesday, balloters issued a resounding 'no' on Amendment 4, which would have required voter consent to change comprehensive land use plans at the city, county and state levels.

November 5 - Daily Business Review

Wendell Cox believes so. In this article, he quantifies the effect of land use regulation on the cost of new home construction, which he says leads to

November 5 - New Geography

Cary Lowe, Los Angeles-based attorney and advocate for energy efficiency, makes the case for the economic benefits of energy efficiency retrofits to the state of California.

November 5 - The Planning Report

Steven Johnson examines how officials in New York and other cities can leverage information collected from public call centers to build better cities.

November 5 - Wired

Jonna McKone looks at how Hispanics are transforming urban spaces and how city planning and transportation policies respond.

November 4 - TheCityFix

"Landscape Urbanism," a school of thought that argues that landscape and natural forms are more capable of shaping cities than architecture, is gaining ground in the U.S. Andrés Duany reports that to his dismay, it's also taking over Harvard.

November 4 - Metropolis Magazine

U.S. Environmentalists say that despite a Republican rout in the recent election, the rejection by voters of California's Prop. 23 (which would have suspended enviro regulation if unemployment was over 5.5%) shows that wasn't the issue.

November 4 - The Christian Science Monitor

Kiran Stacy looks at some of the challenges facing what is intended to be the world's first carbon-neutral city.

November 4 - Financial Times

The recently retired Don Waldie, an impassioned observer and critic of metropolitan Los Angeles, spent his career finding ways for residents to participate to the civic process.

November 4 - The Planning Report

Two major projects underway in Kansas City will make a significant impact on the city's downtown and skyline, but problems with one may delay its completion.

November 4 - The Architect's Newspaper

A group of West End business owners plans to direct slower moving foot traffic to walk along storefronts.

November 4 - The Wall Street Journal

A six month trial will bring Wi-Fi Internet access into test locations within the London tube system, part of an effort by the city to bring Internet access to the entire system in time for the 2012 Summer Olympics.

November 4 - BBC

103 artists form around the world have unveiled a massive collection of murals in New York City. But they're underground in abandoned subways stations, and you can't go see them.

November 4 - The New York Times

<em>Next American City</em> talks with urban designer Mike Lydon about opening streets to people and closing streets to cars in this second of a two-part conversation.

November 4 - Next American City

Remember that cutting-edge bus that straddles traffic built by the Chinese earlier this year? Dakota Smith at Curbed LA found an LA architect that proposed the entire idea back in 1969.

November 3 - Curbed LA

For Halloween, a group of designers from Steven Holl turned their favorite architects into jack-o-lanterns.

November 3 - The New York Observer

High Speed Rail, regardless of how glamorous it appears to be, is nothing but a waste of money in the U.S., claims Robert Samuelson. If states want HSR, let them build it themselves without federal subsidy, he concludes as there is no national gain.

November 3 - Newsweek

The new initiative from the city's Department of Transportation and Police Department will target speeding and failure-to-yield violations, including rogue cyclists.

November 3 - Streetsblog

A new report sheds major doubt on some of the emerging Chinese cities' abilities to grow in a sustainable manner.

November 3 - Reuters