The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

How to be mobile in Chicago without owning a car.

October 20 - Chicago Sun Times

Amid all the talk of rebuilding the city, the very real threat of toxic air is getting little attention.

October 20 - AlterNet

Rebuilding efforts in New Orleans should embrace "a complex reading of urban history" and not the "sentimental and historicist vision" of New Urbanism argues Nicolai Ouroussoff.

October 20 - The New York Times

Is the Green Building Council's popular and respected "green certification" program heavy on costs and paperwork, and low on actual results?

October 20 - The Wall Street Journal

Extracting the hundreds of billions of barrels of recoverable oil trapped in the sands of northern Alberta will have a huge environmental price tag.

October 20 - The Boston Globe

Nimbyism is gaining quite a following in Toronto -- leaving some detractors to worry that the movement is strangling all growth in the area.

October 20 - The Toronto Star

A University of Washington shows that the Puget Sound region is already feeling the impact of global warming and predicts dire consequences.

October 19 - The Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Creating more direct connections shortens travel time, which effectively brings people closer to their destinations.

October 19 - Planning Commissioners Journal

Milwaukee's 1965 Amtrak Station is a shrine to bad design, but it still has its charms, which stand to be wiped out by the plan to fix it.

October 19 - Repeat

Tourism is the city's top employer with 81,000 jobs and $5 billion in yearly revenue.

October 19 - The Christian Science Monitor

The United States and German embassies refuse to pay London's congestion charge.

October 19 - The Independent

Richard Moe, President of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, weighs in on the reconstruction of New Orleans.

October 19 - The Wall Street Journal

How large publicly traded builders are turning the American home into a corporate product.

October 19 - The New York Times Magazine

In a unique situation in Washington D.C., selected private firms are authorized to approve development permit applications on behalf of the city's overworked and dysfunctional Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs apartment.

October 19 - Washington City Paper

An editorial weighs in on the impact New Urbanism pioneer Andres Duany will have in the rebuilding of the Gulf Coast, and his dubious legacy in West Palm Beach.

October 19 - Palm Beach Post

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October 19 - Chris Steins

A new piece of legislation going before voters in New York would limit the amount of development in many low-density neighborhoods, and encourage planning over upzoning to encourage development.

October 19 - The Gotham Gazette

California's fastest growing region resorts to using the political strategy of 'recall' to slow growth.

October 18 - Los Angeles Times

As shelters close, trailer towns open for storm evacuees. FEMA opens the first of many such villages for those displaced by Katrina.

October 18 - The Christian Science Monitor

City of New Haven seeks innovative, cost-effective ways to curtail municiapl energy expenses and could be a model for municipalities across the nation.

October 18 - The Christian Science Monitor