The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>How does a rapidly changing news media affect big city planning? Badly, according to this post from <em>Next American City</em>.</p>

April 25 - The Next American City

<p>With rising sea levels and a penchant for ambitious new building ideas, Dubai is moving forward with plans to construct floating buildings and islands.</p>

April 25 - NPR

<p>This video from <em>CNN</em> looks at a home being planned in Connecticut that will have 26 toilets.</p>

April 25 - CNN

American Rivers has named the Catawba River--which spans both Carolinas--as America's Most Endangered River for 2008, citing rapid development and outdated water supply management as factors in its ranking.

April 25 - The State

<p>The federal government is tempting officials in Los Angeles County with more than $200 million in transportation funding -- but only if the county converts some highway lanes to congestion pricing toll lanes.</p>

April 25 - The Los Angeles Times

<p>This 12-part video series from <em>Vice</em> gives a gritty look at the Texas-sized patch of plastic flotsam that has formed in the Pacific Ocean -- and the global environmental and health hazards it presents.</p>

April 25 - VBS

<p>China's booming cities have a lot to teach western architects, planners, and urban policy makers, says professor Thomas J. Campanella.</p>

April 24 - Business Week

<p>Census data shows that growth rates in the formerly high-growth counties surrounding Washington D.C. are beginning to drop off, and in some cases, are going in to the negative.</p>

April 24 - The Washington Post

<p>After the fall of congestion pricing, should New York look to Paris for ideas on how to reclaim its streets?</p>

April 24 - Streetsblog

<p>The latest figures show that more than 500 California households have gone into foreclosure each day in the first quarter of 2008.</p>

April 24 - LA Times Blog: LA Land

<p>Investors are moving forward with plans to build an amusement park in Baghdad, arguing the Iraqi capital is in dire need of entertainment facilities. Many worry that security concerns will disrupt those plans.</p>

April 24 - The Times

<p>Party organizers in Prague have set up a monthly party that takes place on one of the city's streetcars as it drives through town.</p>

April 24 - The New York Times

<p>All new homes in Montgomery County, Maryland, will be required to comply with environmental and energy-efficiency standards.</p>

April 24 - The Washington Post

<p>Homes farther out from the central city and with longer commutes are being hit harder by the downturn in the housing market. Those located close to city cores and transit are faring better, according to this report from <em>NPR</em>.</p>

April 24 - NPR

<p>Though more than a hundred years newer, the city of San Francisco has a lot to teach cities like Charleston about preserving their less-than-iconic historic areas.</p>

April 24 - The Post and Courier

<p>Tacoma, Washington, could become a walkable city, according to Danish architect Lars Genzoe.</p>

April 24 - The News Tribune

BLOG POST

<div> <br /> I once was consigned to a table full of business school students at a land-use conference at UCLA. Trying to be a good sport, I offered the only idea that I&#39;d ever had about business: car insurance charged according to miles driven. I posited that since risk and mileage were more or less correlated, it only made sense that people who drove more and incurred more risk should pay more. <span><img src="/files/u1299/Karl_Marx.jpg" width="120" height="130" align="right" /></span><br /> <br /> My tablemates stared back at me as if I had just issued a rousing recitation of <em>Das Kapital</em>. <br />

April 23 - Josh Stephens

BLOG POST

Both supporters and opponents of the sprawl status quo often refer to suburbia as “The American Dream.” One sprawl-defending organization even calls itself “The American Dream Coalition.”

April 23 - Michael Lewyn

<p>From construction to infrastructure to social marketing, the Dockside Green condominiums in Victoria B.C. is becoming recognized as the greenest in Canada.</p>

April 23 - The Globe & Mail

<p>As airlines go bankrupt and gasoline prices climb upwards, James Howard Kunstler wonders why passenger rail continues to fall off the political radar.</p>

April 23 - James Howard Kunstler's Blog