The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>Environmental consultant Charles Lockwood lists the 10 rules almost every business can follow to make theirs a green building without busting the budget.</p>

October 25 - Slatin

<p>A record-setting amount of apartments in Chicago were converted into condominiums in 2005, and Mayor Richard Daley has formed a task force to limit the trend which is rapidly diminishing affordable housing in the city.</p>

October 25 - Crain's Chicago Business

<p>With rapid population growth and lopsided housing development favoring large single family homes, lower-income households in one corner of Middle America are facing housing challenges similar to those in New York and Los Angeles.</p>

October 24 - The New York Times

<p>An academic in Scotland is looking to add the post-war New Town of East Kilbride to the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites, an illustrious list of culturally important sites from all over the world.</p>

October 24 - The Herald

<p>Planners in Seattle and Sacramento are learning it isn't just nice to share the road -- it is necessary.</p>

October 24 - Sacramento Bee and Seattle Times

<p>Joel Kotkin looks to Reston, Virginia, and other suburban villages as the new way for America to handle an increasing population without succumbing to the negative aspects of traditional sprawl.</p>

October 24 - Metropolis Magazine

<p>Outside developers are rushing into the growing student housing market as colleges and universities look for ways to lower costs.</p>

October 24 - The Hartford Courant

<p>Alleys -- considered by many to be dangerous or neglected, can become a fertile ground for 'organic new urbanism', says architect David Winslow.</p>

October 24 - The San Francisco Chronicle

<p>Condo owners and members of homeowner associations, who are already struggling to pay repairs on uninhabitable storm-damaged units and fighting with their insurance companies for compensation and temporary housing, now face possible foreclosure.</p>

October 24 - Sun-Sentinel

<p>A slideshow depicts the 10 worst real estate markets in the US right now, with San Diego coming out on the bottom.</p>

October 24 - Forbes

<p>Federal governments everywhere are not structured to recognize -- much less address -- the serious environmental pressures they face, and as a result end up responding militarily. The alternative? Ministries and Departments of Sustainable Development.</p>

October 24 - Tom Paine

<p>The South Korean government has announced plans to create at least one new town and to increase the size of older cities, hoping to decrease the population density and increase the housing supply.</p>

October 24 - The Dong-A Ilbo

<p>Local governments in California weary of losing the ability to 'plan' are speaking out against the initiative's purported goals of reforming eminent domain and the valuation of regulated land.</p>

October 23 - The Planning Report

<p>In an effort to simultaneously privatize its housing and make bases more livable, the military is employing the principles of new urbanism.</p>

October 23 - The Washington Post

<p>The Bush administration supports commercial logging of dead timber after a forest fire. Environmentalists say dead trees are essential for a forest to regrow.</p>

October 23 - The Los Angeles Times

<p>Income from rental suites incorporated to a new condominium project in Vancouver offer mortgage help to families and affordable housing for young singles and seniors.</p>

October 23 - Canada.com

<p>A free concert by the rock group The Secret Machines at Los Angeles' Union Station hopes to get more people to consider riding buses and trains.</p>

October 23 - LA Daily News

<p>Citing a need to preserve historic charm, Boston is the first big city to weigh rules for dishes.</p>

October 23 - The Christian Science Monitor

<p>As both a major target of terrorism and a valuable evacuation tool, disaster planning officials are taking a closer look at the vulnerabilities and possibilities for mass transit.</p>

October 23 - The Contra Costa Times

FEATURE

With its emphasis on good food, sustainable living, and local community, the Slow City movement is spreading across Europe. But what potential is there for the movement to make the jump across the Atlantic?

October 23 - Heike Mayer, Paul L. Knox