The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Electrified truck stops are a major tool in the battle against particulate pollution from diesel engines. In California, the Air Resources Board has just outlawed overnight idling, effective 2008.

October 30 - The New York Times

With Houston as a case study, Michael Lewyn argues that overregulation creates automobile-dependent urban form.

October 29 - Wayne Law Review

Emir Kusturica, independent film-maker, writer, and director, has been awarded this year's Phillipe Rotthier Prize for Architecture for Reconstruction of the European City.

October 29 - INTBAU News

FabPreFab magazine interviews the architects at Marmol Radziner Prefab about their new steel homes product line, called The Desert House. [Includees photos]

October 29 - Fab PreFab

Los Angeles' new mayor plans to propose an 'unprecedented investment in housing' for consideration by voters. The measure would likely give planners more more power to increase density in the city.

October 29 - The Los Angeles Times

Information technology is finally trickling into rural india but faces major hurdles of inadequate infrastructure, content and usability.

October 29 - BBC News World Edition

As San Francisco's Mission Bay and other eastern areas sees a burst of new housing and other development, housing activists see massive displacement, especially of African-American residents and businesses.

October 28 - The San Francisco Bay Guardian

Unless African-Americans can mobilize a real movement -- including the implementation of a "New Orleans Citizens Bill of Rights" -- the Black residents of that city may become the victim of corporate "ethnic cleansing."

October 28 - Black Commentator

The associate director of a non-profit asserts that no-growth policies help increase housing costs.

October 28 - San Mateo County Times, CA

Wal-Mart's new plan to pare energy costs by shifting to renewables could prompt other firms to follow its lead.

October 28 - The Christian Science Monitor

Joel S. Hirschhorn illustrates how non-motorists in America are discriminated against in many aspects of daily life.

October 28 - Grist Magazine

Will Los Angeles' new Orange Line -- a dedicated busway -- bring the same economic growth to Woodland Hills that the Red Line subway brought to North Hollywood?

October 28 - The Los Angeles Times

Chicago Tribune Architecture critic Blair Kamin thinks so as he compares the rebuilding of coastal Mississippi with Daniel Burnham's Beaux-Arts Civic Improvements.

October 28 - The Chicago Tribune

The first CEO of New York's Battery Park City calls for a $3 billion selloff and a $300 million growth spurt at the historic mixed-use development.

October 28 - The Slatin Report

San Joaquin County is not part of the Bay Area, but is home to a growing pool of Bay Area workers. The new train service and subscription bus service are seeing substantial ridership gains resulting from $3/gallon gas. Within the Bay Area, ridership is

October 28 - The Record, Stockton, CA

The Katrina calamity in New Orleans offers an opportunity to question Americans' automobile addiction.

October 28 - Grist Magazine - Gristmill Blog

The age of attractive parking structures has arrived.

October 27 - Michigan Land Use Institute

From monetary donations to offers of services, the architecture community is reaching out to help victims of Katrina and Rita -- in spite of some obstacles.

October 27 - Architectural Record

Prospect, CO, a community with a "daring palette", completes a decade into its test of New Urbanism.

October 27 - The Denver Post

Will Hurricane Katrina prove to be "the biggest, most brutal urban-renewal project Black America has ever seen?"

October 27 - ZNet / Mother Jones