The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

New Delhi architect Sudhir Vohra outlines problematic and antiquated municipal land use laws in India.

April 2 - Express Estates

The National Urban League's annual report, released March 29, finds that when collectively considering economic status, health, education, civil rights, and civic engagement, blacks are 27% below whites.

April 2 - The New Standard

A four-month investigation has revealed some disturbing trends about the transit agency's handling of severe accidents.

April 2 - Houston Press

Wal-Mart CEO and eco-convert Lee Scott announces that beginning in 2009, the mega-chain will no longer sell any item made of PVC. The impacts will be felt globally.

April 1 - Wall Street Journal (via Grist)

Detroit News reporters have jumped to conclusions about the failure of area redevelopment efforts and the need to demolish the stadium.

April 1 - Detroit Metro Times

A Washington, D.C. non-profit provides potential homebuyers with invaluable preparation, from financing to interior design.

April 1 - Washington City Paper

Transportation planners in Kansas City, Missouri, make the left side of the road the "right" side in order to ease congestion.

April 1 - The Boston Globe

Automakers have used improved technology to make cars peppier and bigger, instead of improving fuel economy.

April 1 - The New York Times

Replacing water with slipperiness in an unexpected place can save energy.

March 31 - The New York Observer

Author Scott Russell Sanders offers a perspective on how civic tourism can serve to help improve American cities and towns that "feel like jumbles rather than communities, without pattern or purpose."

March 31 - Civic Tourism

Ecologists in the Tucson area have put development concerns on the back burner to publicize a more pressing problem: the infestation of highly-flammable buffelgrass in the Sonora Desert.

March 31 - Tucson Weekly

It's been 50 years since the city's final streetcar run. Does Detroit have what it takes to join the growing number of transit-focused metropolises in the U.S.?

March 31 - Detroit Free Times

Despite apparent problems at a biosolids processing facility in Philadelphia, employees maintain that the place is safe and should continue operation.

March 31 - Philadelphia City Paper

The ambitious park and transit plan for the city shows promise, but will low-income residents be left behind, as has been the case with similar city planning projects?

March 31 - Grist

Soviet era buildings don't meet the needs of today's international companies, so local architects and developers are scrambling to build anew.

March 31 - International Herald Tribune

FEATURE

March 31 - Mott Smith

In Indiana, selling a 157-mile toll road to Spanish and Australian investors joins the growing trend of selling pieces of underfunded U.S. infrastructure to foreigners.

March 31 - Slate

In front of the UN Convention of Biological Diversity, he calls for greater funding to protect environmental resources.

March 31 - BBC News

The New York Press lists the 50 most loathsome New Yorkers, and a couple of developers top the list.

March 30 - New York Press

For the St. Joe Co., Panama City, Florida's proposed new airport is about transit-oriented development -- in a big way.

March 30 - The Slatin Report