The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Forget dark underground parking -- urban loft residents can now get a garage with a view.

May 19 - MetropolisMag.com

A new academic journal article offers an interesting and highly detailed history of the concept of road pricing, and evaluates where economists have (and have not) reached consensus on the issue.

May 19 - Econ Journal Watch

Urbanist James Howard Kunstler talks about peak oil, the railway system, new urbanism, and politics.

May 19 - AlterNet

Apple is set to open its 24x7 flagship store at Fifth Avenue and 59th Street in Manhattan.

May 19 - The Slatin Report

Andres Duany is working with developer Don Peebles and the residents of Pacifica to develop a New Urbanist project on an 87 acre parcel.

May 19 - Pacifica Tribune

Neal Peirce looks at opportunities for economic growth and jobs in the new cross-border culture.

May 19 - The Washington Post Writers Group

A new development at the confluence of the River Nile has brought an Illinois planner back to her native country of Sudan.

May 19 - ILAPA News BLAST!

A team of Northern California promoters of "plug-in hybrids" demonstrated their technology to a House science team. While receiving bi-partisan endorsement, success may be in the hands of the auto industry.

May 19 - The San Francisco Chronicle

Illegal immigrants wreak havoc on the delicate desert environment in Arizona; fencing or walls only make it worse.

May 19 - Tucson Weekly

Stockholm's traffic congestion tax began in Jan. 2006 and appeared to be unpopular. According to a poll commissioned by the Greens and conducted in May 2006, the tax is more accepted now. A popular vote on the tax will decide its fate in Sept. 2006.

May 19 - The Local

Miami 21 plan aims to update city's zoning code and incorporate elements of New Urbanism.

May 18 - Abhijeet Chavan

Only a third of the projects supported by six Industrial Development Agencies (IDAs) around New York met their job creation goals, according to a report by the state comptroller's office. Is this another nail

May 18 - Office of the New York State Comptroller

Often thought to be more relaxed, sunshine state cities make three of top five for road rage.

May 18 - The Arizona Republic

The median home price in the six-county Southern California region rose a modest nine percent during the last 12 months, compared to the muscular 26 percent climb on a year-over-year basis at the market's peak in Spring 2004.

May 18 - The Los Angeles Times

With the seven-county Central Florida region projected to double its population by 2050, coordinated planning is critical. The think tank myregion.org will start a 15-month visioning process with a meeting May 17th.

May 18 - The Orlando Sentinel

The "City in a Garden" lives up to its motto, using tons of versatile mulch to promote sustainability and improve quality of life.

May 18 - The New York Times

A neighborhood homeowner's association in Denver rejected a proposal for an out-of-scale home redevelopment, and the decision was upheld by a District Court judge.

May 18 - Denver Business Journal

Jane Jacobs wrote little about Los Angeles, a city that might make her shudder, but she is still fondly remembered there. Sam Hall Kaplan presents his personal account of one of the 20th century's greatest urbanists.

May 18 - The Planning Report

Pete Letheby laments the path that ethanol production has taken in the U.S., arguing that it does not hold the promise of being the "green fuel" it was once thought to be.

May 18 - The Denver Post

Poway, California, wants to take the afternoon off on May 22. In an attempt to reduce community stress and bring families together, the town will celebrate Family Focus Night between the hours of 5 and 9 p.m.

May 18 - USA Today