The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Cities account for 75% of the world's enegry use. A few successful strategies to reduce emissions could cause massive changes in the environment.

October 10 - Nature

Columnist Neal Peirce offers the hard truth about the economic realities of gas prices and road taxes.

October 10 - Denver Post / Neal Peirce

The Seattle Monorail was supposed to represent the future of transportation. Now the monorail proposal is "a smoldering wreck." What happened?

October 10 - The Weekly Standard

Thanks to new Neighborhood Entreprise Zone designations, loft development is becoming more viable in Detroit.

October 10 - The Detroit Free Press

One chain increasingly tailors its stores to the urban market by including two levels, escalators, and structured parking.

October 10 - New Urban News

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October 10 - Sriram Khé

James Howard Kustler offers his vision of the looming permanent world-wide energy crisis and its shocking implications at the PetroCollapse Conference in New York.

October 10 - James Howard Kunstler

The informal Las Vegas 'urban growth boundary' just keeps getting pushed further back.

October 10 - Las Vegas Sun

Florida realtors believe that the strong economy in Central Florida, along with an influx of retirees and foreign home buyers, will sustain their record-breaking housing prices.

October 9 - The Orlando Sentinel

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