The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Rapid bus systems recently received landslide victories in a number of counties near Detroit, Michigan, and the public support is helping to convince local politicians that the time may be right to build a rapid rail line from Detroit to Ann Arbor.

August 19 - Metro Times Detroit

Immigration and gentrification is changing the composition of New York and its suburbs in a trend that reverses long-standing patterns of white flight from the city replaced by immigrant infill.

August 19 - The New York Times

A new report contains lessons for planners and other public officials who are concerned about recent public disasters.

August 19 - Fels Institute of Government

A report released by the World Wildlife Fund warns that water shortages are a problem all over the world, including industrialized countries. Repairing and improving water infrastructure is one of the essential steps to take to battle the shortage.

August 19 - BBC

The public's reaction was mixed when the first parking meters in downtown Boise, Idaho, in 1940.

August 19 - The Idaho Statesman

California, the world's eight largest economy, is considering measures to address global change.

August 18 - Reuters

The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina reveals significant population shifts, huge losses for insurance companies, and a collapse in real estate values.

August 18 - Tom Paine Common Sense

Are industrialization and sustainabiity are incompatible? Charles Shaw searches for the answer with a comparison of the ideas of William McDonough, green architect and designer, and Derrick Jensen, environmentalist and philosopher.

August 18 - Grist

Recent announcements from big box retailers withdrawing or delaying plans to build stores in the city have given pause to supporters of controversial living wage ordinance, with some considering withdrawing their support.

August 18 - The Wall Street Journal

Philadelphia's bold approach to stormwater management could be a model for other cities.

August 18 - The Washington Post Writers Group

Local residents of rural Palm Beach County learned how growth management laws and grass-roots opposition to a 10,000 unit major development can be trumped by lobbyists in the state capital.

August 18 - Sun-Sentinel

Benjamin Ross discuss highway expansions, lexus lanes, and congestion charging as he refutes conservative "free-market fundamentalists" such as Wendell Cox, Randal O'Toole, Peter Gordon, and Sam Staley.

August 18 - Dissent

Plan would offer businesses a financial incentive to cut emissions.

August 18 - ABC Australia

Residents in Passaic County, New Jersey, have assumed the power of urban re-design, as community charrettes from early 2006 have resulted in county grants of $164,000 to revitalize numerous main streets in the county.

August 18 - The North Jersey Record

New data from the 2005 American Community Survey reveals new insights into a changing America, including a shifting immigration pattern that reaches into parts of the United States that have heretofore been untouched by demographic change.

August 18 - The New York Times

A blog releases a document it claims is a secret "new urban planning vision for New York City" developed by the consulting firm of Alex Garvin and Associates.

August 17 - Streetsblog

With 2,053 downtown units under construction, the Minneapolis condominium market begins to deflate.

August 17 - Star Tribune

Neal Peirce favors a radical rethinking of how we generate and distribute energy.

August 17 - The Washington Post Writers Group

In a Detroit suburb, a councilwoman is charged with assault and battery after a physical altercation escalates between two elected officials during a council hearing to discuss a variance.

August 17 - The New York Times

A review of the book "The Tenants of East Harlem" by Russell Sharman.

August 17 - BeyondChron