The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Boston is the first city to plan random searches of commuters, spurring questions over civil liberties.

June 10 - The Christian Science Monitor

Claiming that water problems won't slow growth, Sin City bets on expansion over sustainability. Some experts think the city will come up snake-eyes.

June 10 - Las Vegas Sun

The proposed McCain-Lieberman Climate Stewardship Act offers economic incentives to reduce emissions through a market-based system.

June 10 - Moving Ideas

Long-time residents of Yesler Terrace public housing are trying to keep their homes in one of America's most expensive downtowns.

June 10 - The Seattle Times

There's a common perception that Paris is an untouchable ideal, too lofty for other cities to absorb its lessons. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth.

June 10 - Project For Public Spaces

New housing projects in Wisconsin's capital must include affordable units.

June 10 - Madison.com

Four candidates are competing for an unusual seat designated for a homeless representative on the Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council.

June 10 - The Los Angeles Times

Why are inner city residents paying more for groceries?

June 10 - The Chicago Tribune

Longtime urban policy scholar, Alan Altshuler, is appointed to serve as acting dean of the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University.

June 10 - Harvard Crimson

Columbia professor Mindy Thompson Fullilove explores the painful results of post-World War II projects on African-Americans.

June 10 - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

BLOG POST

Kevin Leeson, Special Projects Coordinator and Chris Alvarado, Associate Senior Planner, setup and run the <a href="http://planning.co.cuyahoga.oh.us/blog/">Cuyahoga County Planning Commission Weblog</a>. As far as I know, this is the first public-sector planning blog in existence.<br /> <br /> The purpose of the Cuyahoga County Planning Commission Weblog primarily is to act as a news gathering and dissemination resource for the Greater Cleveland and Cuyahoga County planning community, which includes 59 communities, cities, villages and townships.

June 9 - Chris Steins

Storage condos are seen as a new way to "atttack suburban clutter".

June 9 - St. Paul Pioneer Press

Faced with a mounting lack of fresh water, England thinks reverse-osmosis could provide for its inevitable growth and life-style changes.

June 9 - BBC News

When money ran out nearly 80 years ago, this almost-complete subway was abandoned. Today it is a legend.

June 9 - National Public Radio

BLOG POST

<a href="http://www.visitorville.com/">VisitorVille</a> is a website log analysis program that uses an <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,63767,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1">graphical urban metaphor</a> to visualize website traffic flow.<br /> <img src="http://www.planetizen.com/tech/files//200406609-visitorville.jpg" alt="VisitorVille Screenshot" align="right" /><br /> <blockquote>"A company's entire Web presence is seen as an urban or suburban neighborhood, with each individual Web page presented as a building. The more visitors on a site, the taller the buildings, and the brighter the lights on each floor...each visitor is represented by a small avatar that, when clicked, presents a passport that offers several pieces of information about the user, such as her or his IP address, where that person came from and more. Avatars from dot-com domains wear a suit. Those from dot-edu domains dress as students."</blockquote>

June 9 - Abhijeet Chavan

Louisiana's $14-billion effort to save the state's coast from erosion is in jeopardy after the White House sets aside an engineering study.

June 9 - The Los Angeles Times

In a victory for the Bush administration, thousands of vehicles from Mexico can now ply America's highways without emission controls. A previously-commissioned air-impact study was ruled "legally pointless" and abandoned.

June 9 - The San Francisco Chronicle

Fess Parker, TV's 'Davy Crockett,' and the Chumash Indians hope to turn Santa Ynez into a vacation paradise. Locals fear a loss of community as the Chumash can ignore zoning through federal law.

June 9 - Newsday

Food and fun promote alternatives to one car, one person.

June 9 - Michigan Land Use Institute

Graduate planning programs across the nation are in danger of being cut to save funding.

June 9 - Planning Magazine