The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>Rock Port, Missouri, population 1300, has become the first community in the country with more wind power that it can use.</p>

August 4 - National Public Radio

<p>Andres Duany and other experts discuss how the convergence of high gas prices and the foreclosure crisis may reverse years of cheap gas and cheap exurban land. He's pushing mixed uses and reformed zoning in suburbia, and he's betting on Texas.</p>

August 4 - U.S. News & World Report

<p>Citizens in Weston, Massachusetts, one of America's toniest suburbs, continue to block a local college's effort to build senior housing, raise its endowment and provide scholarships for low-income students.</p>

August 4 - The Boston Globe

<p>HUD's new report shows an astonishing decline in homelessness across the United States, but some groups are saying that they are too good to be true.</p>

August 4 - Newsday

<p>City planners in Charleston, SC would like to see some local malls redeveloped as mini-downtowns, filling in their parking lots with buildings, but local developers think they're insane. 'This really horrifies me,' says one business person.</p>

August 4 - The Post & Courier, Charleston, S.C.

<p>For China, the Olympics represent a struggle between letting people in and controlling what they see and do. This is a problem, writes Andrew Yang, that implicates the Olympics-related architecture in a bad way.</p>

August 4 - The Architect's Newspaper

<p>This is Mississippi's third year in a row topping CalorieLab's United States of Obesity report. The BBC goes to Jefferson County, MS to find out why.</p>

August 4 - BBC

<p>In many cities across the U.S., commuters are taking to their bikes as gas prices climb. But as the Wall St. Journal reports, it takes guts to bike in Los Angeles, where bike lanes and racks are a rarity.</p>

August 4 - Wall St. Journal

FEATURE

Wes Marshall and Norman Garrick illustrate the problem with parking plans today, and how to fix them.

August 4 - Wes Marshall and Norman Garrick

<p>In this op-ed, a builders association representative argues that proposals for inclusionary zoning laws in Minnesota that require a certain percentage of affordable housing do not achieve the goals they aim for.</p>

August 4 - The Pioneer Press

<p>Dickson Despommier, a professor at Columbia, says that global climate change will require us to reconsider growing food indoors, and proposes that farming go vertical.</p>

August 3 - Big Think

BLOG POST

<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <tbody> <tr> <td class="content" valign="top" bgcolor="#f1f1f1"><span style="font-family: Arial"> <div> <span style="font-family: Arial"><span style="font-family: Arial"> <div> <p> <span style="font-size: x-small">For over a year now, calls have multiplied to give the surface transportation program a new sense of direction. With near unanimity, the transportation community, along with most congressional lawmakers and state and local officials, have concluded that the current program has lost its focus and lacks a clear mission and a guiding purpose. A bipartisan consensus has developed that perpetuating the status quo is not the answer.

August 3 - Kenneth Orski

<p>The new Harley-Davidson Museum recently opened it's doors to the public, and the architecture firm Pentagram designed both the enormous exhibit space and the outdoor public spaces that connect the museum to the grid.</p>

August 3 - The New York Times

<p>An audio artwork called "Bus Station" will be installed in Olympia, WA's downtown transit station, to be heard over the public-address system.</p>

August 3 - The Olympian

East Fourth St. is a popular spot in downtown Cleveland, an alley lined with tables from onlooking restaurants. A recent renovation has resulted in an explosion of flowers.

August 3 - The Cleveland Plain Dealer

<p>In the summer, a handful of New Yorkers like Calvin Tsao remake public space into their own personal dining rooms.</p>

August 3 - The New York Times

<p>Architect Robert Adam likens modern architecture to modern democracy, where decisions made on high supposedly represent the will of the people.</p>

August 2 - Building

<p>This article from <em>The New York Observer</em> looks at how New York City might be different with more "livable streets".</p>

August 2 - The New York Observer

<p>Robert Poole, director of transportation at the Reason Institute, delivers an open letter to Los Angeles-area elected officials in the hopes of persuading them to adopt a federally-supported pricing system for the region's freeway network.</p>

August 2 - The Planning Report

<p>The 'Winglet' is a new, Segway-like vehicle in development by Toyota. The video shows the Winglet in action.</p>

August 2 - The Guardian U.K.