The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>Seattle planner, architect and journalist Mark Hinshaw's new book, "True Urbanism," explains the theories behind why droves of people are abandoning the suburbs and flocking to dense, diverse urban environments.</p>

September 23 - California Planning & Development Report

<p>Plans to expand the amount of beach available in front of two hotels in Honolulu are meeting opposition from local surfers and environmentalists. But some say the beach has already been engineered beyond its natural state and more won't hurt.</p>

September 23 - Honolulu Star-Bulletin

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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">   Now it’s Jane’s turn.</font></p>

September 22 - Anthony Flint

<p>An Army Corps of Engineers project intended to save a Missouri town from flooding by draining a massive wetland has been identified as an ineffective plan. The Corps and its political supporters are under fire for pushing overly expensive projects.</p>

September 22 - Time

<p>A report on Portland, Oregon, residents' visions for the future of their city has been released. The people say they want the future of their city to be pretty much the same as its present, just slightly better.</p>

September 22 - The Oregonian

<p>Architype Review profiles 8 new and renovated Religious institutions in the words of their design teams.</p>

September 22 - ArchiType Review

<p>Congestion problems are becoming more acute in Chicago, and local planners and policymakers are urging the city to get creative in the way they address the issues.</p>

September 22 - The Chicago Tribune

<p>As Boise looks to a future of growth and expansion, it is hoping to acquire nearly 2,000 acres of unused federal land from the Bureau of Land Management. But a neighboring suburb also wants to claim the land.</p>

September 22 - The Idaho Statesman

<p>For one hour next month, municipal facilities in San Francisco will voluntarily turn out their lights in a citywide effort to cut energy use.</p>

September 22 - ABC

<p>Before its planners had realized what they'd done, a proposed name for a planned streetcar system in Seattle -- the South Lake Union Trolley, or SLUT -- had already slipped out into the public.</p>

September 21 - Nate Berg

<p>The San Francisco County Transportation Authority is working on two applications of congestion pricing for the city's downtown core and on a major road leading to the Golden Gate Bridge.</p>

September 21 - The San Francisco Chronicle

Park(ing) Day takes off in cities across America in an effort to raise awareness of the shortage of public parks in urban areas, and to highlight the amount of miles and gallons of gas wasted by drivers looking for parking spots.

September 21 - The Wall Street Journal

<p>What Los Angeles can learn about addressing congestion from Portland, OR.</p>

September 21 - The Los Angeles Times

<p>New York City's Department of Transportation has installed the city's first-ever physically-separated bike path inside the urban core.</p>

September 21 - Streetsblog

<p>Two outdoor advertising firms are the operators behind the scenes in most of the world's bicycle rental programs, including a recently launched system in Paris. The two firms continue to battle for control of future systems, and advertising rights.</p>

September 21 - The Economist

<p>The mayor of a small German city is fighting depopulation by paying young women to move in.</p>

September 21 - Der Spiegel

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I&#39;m posting this blog entry live in front of a panel session of approximately 200 participants at the <a href="http://www.ohioplanning.org/conference/">2007 Ohio Planning Conference</a> at the Columbus Conference Center to demonstrate, live, how one posts to a blog.<br /><br /><img src="/files/u4/columbus-conf-ctr.jpg" alt="Columbus Conference Center in walkable downtown Columbus" title="Columbus Conference Center in walkable downtown Columbus" hspace="4" vspace="4" width="400" height="266" align="right" />I&#39;m presenting on &quot;Web 2.0 Tools to Communicate Planning Ideas&quot;. Here&#39;s the pitch:<br />

September 21 - Chris Steins

<p>A Philadelphia mayoral candidate says the first step to fixing the city under his administration would be a revamping and revival of the city's planning system.</p>

September 21 - The Philadelphia Inquirer

<p>Harvard’s voluntary agreement is the first in the nation to legally bind a developer to reducing greenhouse gases beyond the current standards.</p>

September 21 - Harvard University Gazette

<p>Boston Mayor Thomas Menino has announced a series of improvements to the city's bike network, angling it to become one of the nation's most bike-friendly cities.</p>

September 21 - The Boston Globe