The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Steven Dale of Creative Urban Projects in Toronto takes a look at a crazy plan by Santiago Calatrava to build a gondola to Governor's Island in New York that might not be so crazy after all.

January 8 - Urban Omnibus

Fast Company notes a growing number of green building proposals that look exactly like volcanoes.

January 8 - Fast Company

The Environmental Protection Agency is releasing new air quality standards that will likely place hundreds of additional counties nationwide in violation.

January 8 - The New York Times

California stimulus projects and job creation are being delayed by a state office tasked with reviewing federally-funded construction projects to prevent adverse affects on historic sites, according to a new report.

January 8 - The Sacramento Bee

London is making public more than 200 streams of city data, joining a host of world cities in sharing city-collected data with its citizens.

January 8 - BBC

The Denver Regional Transportation District is forecasting an increasing gap between what it will cost to complete the region's FasTracks light rail system and how much taxpayer money will be available to fund its construction.

January 8 - The Denver Post

This article looks at how a Connecticut journalist used the online nuisance reporting tool SeeClickFix to get locals involved in his newspaper's newsgathering and storytelling.

January 8 - The New York Times

That's how newly-developed communities are making it work, says Laura Wright in this in-depth look at how sprawl happened in Chicago and how smart growth is revitalizing the city.

January 7 - NRDC's onearth

American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) selects its issues to look for in the year ahead, including more legislation aimed at distracted drivers and the use of social media by transportation agencies.

January 7 - ThomasNet News

Regional planning in CA's sprawling Central Valley has turned to the huge challenge of increasing density. Fortunately, SB 375 will facilitate planners' efforts to double Fresno County density to 8 units per acre. Yet institutional obstacles remain.

January 7 - The Fresno Bee

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer has come out as a strong proponent of bringing nuclear power back into the state's energy fold.

January 7 - The Arizona Republic

A video from The Boston Globe takes a look into the world below the city's subway system.

January 7 - The Boston Globe

Local food and small farming are part of a growing food trend in the U.S. But, as Steph Larsen writes, the trend is going to need more infrastructure down the supply chain to sustain itself

January 7 - Grist

A 137-mile clean energy transmission line has been approved in the UK, connecting wind and wave power facilities near the coast. But some environmental groups are not happy about the plan.

January 7 - Guardian

Though he originally planned to build a prayer center on part of a 20 acre property he was pursuing, a Texas Pastor has expanded his plans into an all-out neighborhood with more than 450 homes.

January 7 - The Houston Chronicle

Once the Capital of Black America, Harlem is undergoing a population shift that is taking blacks out of the majority.

January 7 - The New York Times

The Burj Khalifa has opened in Dubai. Now, locals say, the development of the city's public life must begin.

January 7 - The National

FEATURE

January 6 - Jack Finn

Hillsboro, Oregon, a suburb of Portland, is an ambitious town on the urban growth boundary that is eager to expand into the farmland next door. How will Portland's system of growth-slowing government respond?

January 6 - GOOD Magazine

CA's chronic budget deficit has taken its toll on transportation funding, be it public transit operations or fixing potholes. An initiative has been launched to prevent diversion of transportation funds just as the Gov. proposed another scheme.

January 6 - The San Diego Union-Tribune