The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

New standards by Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND) reward developers who build in the right places.

October 21 - Michigan Land Use Institute

Transit ridership has increased across the country with the rise in gas prices. If the price of gas falls, will transit ridership fall too?

October 21 - MSN Money

In the last of his five-part series, columnist Steve Lopez examines the jarring juxtaposition of rapidly-gentrifying luxury lofts that overlook prostitutes, drug dealers and homeless on LA's skid row.

October 21 - The Los Angeles Times

How did Santana Row, a controversial San Jose development criticized for being "fake" and "Disneyland North," turn into a real neighborhood?

October 21 - San Jose Mercury News

CLR interviews architect and author Charles Jencks, about his new book, The Iconic Building.

October 21 - California Literary Review

Heathrow Airport and Dubai Financial Center are moving forward on robotic vehicle transit technology called personal rapid transit (PRT) with the aim of reducing energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.

October 21 - London Daily Telegraph

New methods detect twice as much logging as previously estimated.

October 21 - The Christian Science Monitor

The impact of China's industrial growth on its own lands, waters and peoples has been recognized; now we are seeing its effects on the rest of the world.

October 21 - The Independent (UK)

Manhattan's West Side stadium is dead, Ground Zero is in shambles. It must be time to take on Governors Island.

October 21 - The Slatin Report

William Fulton recalls the late Ed Bacon, Philadelphia's chief planner for more than two decades, as more than the cranky and quirky man he became in his later years.

October 20 - California Planning & Development Report

APA Executive Director Paul Farmer testifies at a joint congressional hearing about plans for rebuilding New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

October 20 - American Planning Association

The mile-long elevated highway, once hailed as a remarkable achievment is now seen by some as a barrier to development of Buffalo's waterfornt.

October 20 - The Buffalo News

Most Americans drive to work out of necessity. If the government wants to provide better transportation and economic opportunity, the government should offer tax credits to help reduce the cost of driving, and enable low-income to afford a reliable car, suggests writer Margy Waller.

October 20 - The Washington Monthly

How to be mobile in Chicago without owning a car.

October 20 - Chicago Sun Times

Amid all the talk of rebuilding the city, the very real threat of toxic air is getting little attention.

October 20 - AlterNet

Rebuilding efforts in New Orleans should embrace "a complex reading of urban history" and not the "sentimental and historicist vision" of New Urbanism argues Nicolai Ouroussoff.

October 20 - The New York Times

Is the Green Building Council's popular and respected "green certification" program heavy on costs and paperwork, and low on actual results?

October 20 - The Wall Street Journal

Extracting the hundreds of billions of barrels of recoverable oil trapped in the sands of northern Alberta will have a huge environmental price tag.

October 20 - The Boston Globe

Nimbyism is gaining quite a following in Toronto -- leaving some detractors to worry that the movement is strangling all growth in the area.

October 20 - The Toronto Star

A University of Washington shows that the Puget Sound region is already feeling the impact of global warming and predicts dire consequences.

October 19 - The Seattle Post-Intelligencer