The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>Property rights initiatives in four western states are hoping to draw in support from voters afraid of the spectre of eminent domain. But many see this as an inaccurate ploy.</p>

October 17 - Grist

<p>Author Alan E. Pisarski under a joint project of the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) and the Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) details in length America's commuting behaviors and habits over a 10-year period.</p>

October 17 - Transportation Research Board

<p>Homebuilders are driving the momentum for green-certified homes.</p>

October 17 - The New York Times

<p>A ballot measure restricting growth on ranchland and hillsides in Santa Clara County is the most polarizing of the six county and two city measures that affect open space, parks, developments and urban growth boundaries.</p>

October 17 - The San Francisco Chronicle

<p>A $15 million donation launches the distinctive Indianapolis Cultural Trail toward construction.</p>

October 16 - The Indianapolis Star

<p>The Economist predicts that America's rising population solve more problems that it will create.</p>

October 16 - The Economist

<p>Canadian energy giant EnCana and the City of Calgary hope that the corporation's new headquarters, scheduled for completion in 2011, will put Calgary on the "architectural map."</p>

October 16 - The Globe & Mail

<p>Robert Taylor Homes, the largest in a wave of urban public housing projects built during the 1960s, has finally fallen victim to the wreaking ball as part of the Chicago Housing Authorities massive redevelopment plans.</p>

October 16 - The Miami Herald

<p>A new Canadian documentary tackling suburban sprawl is as generic as the subdivisions it criticizes, says the Globe &amp; Mail's Trevor Boddy.</p>

October 16 - The Globe & Mail

<p>A study of 28 metropolitan regions reveals that the high commuting cost for living in outer-ring suburbs outweighs the low cost of the housing in the long term.</p>

October 16 - The Washington Post

<p>More than 20 master planned communities have been proposed in Idaho since 2000. And the trend of the increasing popularity of MPCs is spreading nationwide.</p>

October 16 - The Idaho Statesman

FEATURE

October 16 - Nate Berg

FEATURE

Coverage of the American Society of Landscape Architects 2006 conference and the International Federation of Landscape Architects world congress, held October 6-10 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

October 16 - Patrick L. Peterson

FEATURE

Coverage of the American Society of Landscape Architects 2006 conference and the International Federation of Landscape Architects world congress, held October 6-10 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

October 16 - Jamie Tschida

<p>Columnist Neal Peirce uses the the example of the recent E. coli outbreak in spinach to underscore the importance of curtailing sprawl and preserving farmland so that we may eat locally-grown produce and avoid similar problems in the future.</p>

October 16 - The Washington Post Writers Group

California's law to discourage car commuting is rarely followed; many companies breaking the law have never fined.

October 16 - The Los Angeles Times

<p>A Colorado home-builder reflects on his attempt to go green.</p>

October 15 - Grist

<p>The $1.4 billion, 5.1 mile Central Subway connecting the Caltrain Depot at Third and King Streets to Chinatown, is projected to be completed by 2016. Most of the funding has been secured and community meetings will start Oct. 17.</p>

October 15 - San Francisco Examiner

<p>Once unthinkable, zoning is now being considered by Montana counties to prevent subdividing open space and ranch land.</p>

October 15 - Governing Magazine

<p>A 203-foot pyramid, designed by British architect Lord Foster, is only one example of over-the-top urban design in Kazakhstan's remote capital city.</p>

October 15 - The New York Times