The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Is a fear of empty space driving architecture and urban design today?

May 13 - The San Francisco Chronicle

It's for the birds (literally).

May 13 - The San Francisco Chronicle

With the Olympic games just four years away, China's capital city is attempting to physically construct a new world image.

May 13 - China View

Considered a engineering feat when it was built 10 years ago, the Channel Tunnel has failed financially and politically, says Christian Wolmar.

May 13 - The New York Times

Consumer Reports has shown that hybrid cars get less than 60 percent of EPA estimates.

May 13 - Wired

In her latest book, influential urbanist Jane Jacobs' offers a solution for suburban sprawl and a warning for North American cities.

May 13 - The Globe and Mail

Do 'factory-like' subdivisions spell the end of the loft as a meaningul cultural symbol?

May 13 - MetropolisMag.com

The frenzied development pace of the world's fastest growing national economy has some fearing an impending real estate bust.

May 13 - The Los Angeles Times

Fourteen million people use public transportation every day in the U.S., but the federal government has invested only $0.006 in security per passenger.

May 13 - GovExec

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Thanks to Adam Rogers at <a href="http://www.wired.com/">Wired</a> for this reference to the Transportation Research Board's participation solicitation for <a href="http://gulliver.trb.org/news/blurb_detail.asp?id=3692">XML Schemas for Exchange of Transportation Data</a>. <br /> <br /> XML tells the web browser software about the structure and type of information it's displaying, distinguishing content from format by adding metadata.<br /> <br /> We predicted that planning specialties would begin developing their own XML schemas in a 1999 article for APA's Planning magazine, <a href="http://www.planning.org/planningpractice/1999/feb99.htm">'X' Marks the Spot</a>

May 12 - Chris Steins

If roads are about "getting there" and streets are about "being there", can Sydney's busiest road become a street?

May 12 - The Sydney Morning Herald

A new book investigates why the construction industry is constrained by narrow thinking.

May 12 - Spiked

Trucks and SUVs are causing record consumption this year and refineries are already operating at capacity.

May 12 - The Detroit Free Press

Apartment dwellers are seeking out quality developments that increasingly reflect their own civic, urban and environmentally responsible identity.

May 12 - Australian Financial Review

Billions spent on new bridges to satisfy ego, spread sprawl

May 12 - Michigan Land Use Institute

Anthony Flint reviews the urban design goals as well as the architecture of Gehry's new Stata Center.

May 12 - The Boston Globe

Randal O'Toole, an economist and director of the Oregon-based Thoreau Institute, challenges smart growth.

May 12 - Toronto At Home

The federal Section 8 housing program helps low-income Americans afford decent places to live. But now it's about to be trimmed.

May 12 - The Christian Science Monitor

Urbanist Jane Jacobs talks to the New Yorker about New York, Ground Zero, and "Dark Age Ahead," her new book.

May 12 - The New Yorker

Manchester UK has been so successful in attracting new residents back to the town center, that planners now must balance rival claimants for shrinking space.

May 12 - The Guardian Unlimited