The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>A Taiwanese inventor is proposing a rail system that never stops for passengers, virtually eliminating delays. Follow the full story link to see the video.</p>

June 19 - boingboing.net

<p>Metropolis Magazine visits Ground Zero as building begins, and finds that the bold plans and architectural dreams have fizzled.</p>

June 19 - Metropolis Magazine

<p>Urban decay blankets much of downtown Detroit. More and more people are pushing for adaptive reuse of the aging and underused buildings, but some city policies may get in the way.</p>

June 19 - The Next American City

<p>As a Texas beach erodes and the waves come closer to shore, homeowners are scrambling to figure out what to do when the public beach invades their private property.</p>

June 19 - NPR

<p>This article from <em>The Christian Science Monitor</em> looks at how development, farm practices, and population growth have increased the risk of flooding.</p>

June 19 - The Christian Science Monitor

<p>The rise in virtual connections and Internet-based communities had many worried that traditional community interaction was dying out. <em>Governing</em>'s Alan Ehrenhalt argues it hasn't yet, and probably won't.</p>

June 19 - Governing

<p>"Football Carnivals" are on the rise in Germany, where the community viewing buzz from the 2006 World Cup has hung around and revived itself for the current European Championship.</p>

June 18 - Der Spiegel

<p>For six hours this Sunday, streets in North Portland will be off-limits to cars.</p>

June 18 - The Oregonian

<p>Flood waters along the Mississippi River continue to rise, leaving many Midwest towns deep under water. The Army Corps of Engineers has just identified 27 levees that may not be high enough to handle the rising waters.</p>

June 18 - USA Today

<p>This column from the <em>Toronto Star</em> argues that Toronto needs to take at least a few lessons from Vancouver if it wants to improve its planning.</p>

June 18 - The Toronto Star

<p>The use of geographic information systems for the public good is a rapidly growing field. The technology shows great promise for discovering unequal distribution of resources and environmental racism, writes Peter Manzo.</p>

June 18 - Stanford Social Innovation Review

<p>Daniel Reed, former Planning Director of Daytona Beach, is now the primary planner of Sadr City, 12 miles north of Baghdad.</p>

June 18 - The Bay City Times

<p>An avalanche decimates an Alaskan city's energy infrastructure, leading residents to craft creative ways to conserve energy and lower their utility bills.</p>

June 18 - The Next American City

<p>The Oil Drum charts recent figures released by the U.S. Geological Survey, which show a stunning growth in cement use (and therefore, presumably, building activity) in China as compared to world usage.</p>

June 18 - The Oil Drum

<p>Bethlehem Steel left 25 years ago, but a new, mysterious energy company is brining a glimmer of hope to Lackawanna, New York. The proposed plant, to be built on Bethlehem's brownfields, would convert petroleum coke into synthetic gas.</p>

June 18 - The Buffalo News

<p>GOOD Magazine sends a reporter across country on Amtrak to give a riders-eye view of the system.</p>

June 18 - GOOD Magazine

<p>In an effort to increase livability, New York City will test a 6.9 mile car-free corridor during the month of August.</p>

June 17 - The New York Times

<p>Baltimore considers following in the footsteps of Paris, San Francisco and Copenhagen by opening a "design center", a place for people to gather and debate the design of their city.</p>

June 17 - The Baltimore Sun

<p>The Mayor of London is pushing a plan to bring London's undergrounded rivers to the surface.</p>

June 17 - London Times

<p>CNN reports on the growing chaos in suburbs emptied by the mortgage crisis, and what they tell us about the future of the American dream.</p>

June 17 - CNN