The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

A majority of Fort Lauderdale City Commissioners agreed on July 26 to allow more than 13,000 new residential units to be built in the city's urban core.

July 28 - Sun-Sentinel

Delays, inconvenience and inefficient service force LA Times reporter to abandon use of Pasadena Gold Line.

July 28 - The Los Angeles Times

This New Urbanist community attempts to replicate historic Charleston without the human gumbo.

July 28 - American Society Of Landscape Architects

Cities consider selling naming rights to subway stations, bus lines, bridges and tunnels.

July 28 - The New York Times

Grass or trees? A recent study finds that home buyers might like a view of the woods better than a view of a lawn.

July 28 - University Of Michigan

UK local authorities are felling trees and clearing undergrowth in city parks, citing risks of crime and litigation, but in doing so, they reduce the variety of species and habitats in the parks which are vital to city dwellers.

July 28 - The Guardian Unlimited

Cleanup efforts for the dirtiest nuclear site in the U.S. have a 50% chance of a major accident, according to a new report.

July 28 - New Scientist

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Thanks to my friend Noah Shachtman at <a href="http://www.defensetech.org/archives/001042.html">Defense Tech</a>, now I know about <a href="http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/news_events/exhibits/futuristics/index.html">Transportation Futuristics</a>, an ongoing exhibit up the street from me at the University of California at Berkeley. It's chock-full of pictures like this one:<br /> <br /> <img src="http://www.planetizen.com/tech/files//misc_airail_01.jpg" alt="" /> <br /> <br /> All kinds of wacky transport concepts that never, you should pardon the expression, got anywhere.

July 27 - Anonymous

This New York Times editorial calls for the toughening of environmental rules to address park haze -- industrial air pollution that is carried over to parks by the wind.

July 27 - The New York Times

Chicago's new Millennium Park contains a "generosity of spirit" that charms visitors and inspires faith in the future of cities.

July 27 - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

The multibillion-dollar effort tightens regulations on sewage plants to limit the amount of nitrogen and phosphorous entering the Chesapeake Bay.

July 27 - The Washington Post

The plan to bring the Montreal Expos to Loudoun County hinges on the viability of a 450-acre mixed-use "new town" called "Virginia's Ballpark at Diamond Lake." Small problems: there's no lake, and the baseball supporters own, at most, a third of the site.

July 27 - The Washington Post

Amidst stigma and displacement, mobile homes offer new hope for affordable housing emerges.

July 27 - The Next American City

Orange County, with little open land and high housing demand, broke ground on its first brownfield mass-transit-oriented development.

July 27 - The Los Angeles Times

To guide the architectural quality of new development, communities are embracing form-based design codes as a more effective tool than conventional zoning.

July 27 - The Washington Post

Under the spotlight of the Democratic Convention, 'the city on a hill' faces the strain of modern pressures on traditional political, economic, and social landscapes.

July 27 - The Seattle Times

The ambitious environmental monitoring project amounts to a massive global network designed for the sharing, dissemination and management of environmental information.

July 27 - The Washington Post

While Indianapolis wants to become a life-sciences hotspot by 2020 under a new regional plan, historic - and abandoned - Bush Stadium could be the key to development.

July 27 - The Indianapolis Star

The Gold Line LRT, which connects central Los Angeles to Pasadena, has failed to meet predicted ridership levels. Yet rail authorities remain hopeful.

July 26 - Pasadena Star-News

Should we care about what iconic buildings really contribute to the neighborhoods that surround them?

July 26 - The Guardian Unlimited