The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Wal-Mart CEO announces that the world's largest retailer will hold its suppliers responsible for higher environmental and labor standards.

October 22 - The Washington Post

Analysis of new satellite imagery shows that the Amazon rainforest is disappearing at double the rate of previous estimates.

October 22 - Guardian UK

Growth debate in Idaho centers on property taxes, impact fees and possibly new legislation.

October 22 - The Idaho Statesman

To the dismay of the residents of Udaipur, India, "land sharks" have been taking over the dry beds of the city's famous lakes and developing them.

October 22 - NDTV.com

The University of Calgary’s Transportation Action Group uses abandoned bikes for a free campus-wide community bicycle program.

October 22 - Pinkbike

Philadelphia's Yorktown neighborhood, once an experiment in marketing to middle-class African Americans, continues to mean home to its residents as it nears the half-century mark.

October 21 - The Philadelphia Inquirer

One of Milwaukee's most successful brownfield reclamation projects is now facing the questions of how much housing is too much, and how dense is too dense.

October 21 - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

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