The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Michael Lewyn explains how sprawl reduces Jewish observance and conflicts with Jewish views of social justice, and points out that Jewish law has historically allowed extensive land use regulation.

October 9 - Southeastern Environmental Law Journal/Social Science Research Network

Treasure Valley residents in Southwest Idaho get a chance to weigh in on future growth scenarios.

October 9 - The Idaho Statesman

As developable property becomes ever more scarce, brownfields are beginning to look like a bargain.

October 9 - USA Today

Boise planners work on emergency ordinance to address substandard lots; infill task force created to work on standards for in-fill development.

October 9 - The Idaho Statesman

Business is booming for the nation's only privately owned and operated radioactive and hazardous waste landfill. Envirocare of Utah handles almost as much waste in the first half of 2005 as it did in all of 2004.

October 9 - Salt Lake City Tribune

Chinese government officials are developing the the '11th Five-Year Plan' to redirect policy from growth for growth's sake to a more sustainable model that would emphasize an 'all-around well-off society'.

October 8 - Environmental News Network

What do you do when the only corridor in Los Angeles that could actually justify mass transit doesn't want it?

October 8 - The Los Angeles Times

Just months after the Pentagon announced that they would close the Brunswick Naval Air Station, The State of Maine and the towns of Brunswick and Topsham have moved quickly to begin the redevelopment process.

October 8 - Portland Press Herald

The front shape of sport utility vehicles puts pedestrians at greater risk of injury on impact.

October 8 - CNN.com

As new urbanist ideas begin to emerge in Calgary, a local columnist wonders whether New Urbanism promotes artifice over ideas that might actually work.

October 8 - Calgary News And Entertainment Weekly

Why is McDonalds is trying to block Starbucks from moving into the Liberty Square shopping center in Wauconda, IL?

October 7 - The Chicago Tribune

Los Angeles is overflowing with an abundance of nature. So why isn't the city more readily available to the public in the form of parks, asks D.J. Waldie.

October 7 - The Los Angeles Times

Both classicist architects and some of their more pragmatic Chicago counterparts have a weakness for returning to the past, but their approaches couldn't be more different.

October 7 - Chicago Reader

Revitalization efforts in downtown Phoenix receive a huge boost with plans for a $200 million mixed-used development in the heart of downtown. [Includes photos.]

October 7 - The Arizona Republic

To work with the tree roots that can quickly crack concrete sidewalks, Seattle follows the lead of other cities that are testing rubber sidewalks made from recycled tires.

October 7 - The Seattle Post-Intelligencer

With $40 billion in federal dollars at stake for protecting New Orleans from future flooding, Congress is forming a special commission to oversee the allocation of the funds.

October 7 - CNN

Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour is welcoming new urbanist professionals from across the nation to an unprecedented "mega-charrette" for rebuilding many of the hardest-hit communities along the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

October 7 - New Urban News

New Orleans city officials are outraged over FEMA's about-face that would have provided housing for over 6,000 displaced workers.

October 7 - The Wall Street Journal

As urban schools decline, those who can afford it head for ever-expanding, land-consuming 'burbs. The flight of the affluent drains urban schools of funding. We can break the cycle, says Dan Akst.

October 7 - Grist Magazine

New York City increases subway security after a "specific" threat to the city's subway is announced.

October 7 - CNN