The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Robert Poole, Director of Transportation Studies at the Reason Public Policy Institute, addresses the need for California to look at alternative financing vehicles for transportation projects.

May 5 - The Metro Investment Report

The greatest economic engine in Pitkin County is now second homes, dwarfing tourism.

May 5 - The Aspen Times

Big box warehouse club Costco delivers benefits to both its consumers and its employees

May 5 - Business Week

New housing developments in the Palm Springs desert capitalize on Modernist styles popularized in the 1950s, while adding newer sustainable touches.

May 5 - The Los Angeles Times

NBC movie depicts California falling into the ocean after a 10.5 earthquake. The U.S. Geological Service separates fact from fiction contained in this Hollywood fantasy.

May 5 - The San Bernardino Sun

An American designer wants to create humanistic spaces amidst China's frenzied mall-building boom.

May 5 - Time

Urban sprawl negatively impacts the lives of persons with disabilities.

May 4 - Yahoo! Newswire

Former Calfiornia Resources Secretary Mary Nichols opines on her legacy and the environmental challenges facing the Schwarzenegger administration.

May 4 - The Planning Report

San Francisco to offer housing and counseling instead of cash to its 2,500 homeless people.

May 4 - The San Francisco Chronicle

Edinburgh may be the first Scottish city to try congestion pricing, but others will surely follow.

May 4 - The Herald (UK)

Unlike products, places can’t just be "discontinued, modified, withdrawn from the market, re-launched and re-positioned or replaced by improved products".

May 4 - Brandchannel

The American Enterprise Institute questions the American Lung Association's recent State of the Air 2004 report, which identified the most polluted cities in the U.S.

May 4 - Tech Central Station

Sacramento's most influential leaders want the city to grow without sprawling.

May 4 - The Sacramento Bee

Retro alleys are the new hot trend in metro Atlanta. Especially if you call them 'mews'.

May 4 - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

An interview with Doug Kelbaugh, dean of the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.

May 4 - Michigan Live

Does changing the built environment by making it more 'walkable' prompt people to change their travel habits?

May 4 - Institute Of Transportation Studies

The use of autos as status objects is losing ground to a more environmentally and socially benign item -- phones.

May 3 - The Economist

Cleveland hopes to generate jobs, spark residential, retail and other development, generating jobs and revive it's shrinking tax base with the Euclid Corridor project.

May 3 - The Cleveland Plain Dealer

Despite a new law to make traffic better, Beijing's traffic is so bad, city leaders are considering changing the layout of the entire urban city.

May 3 - Shanghai Daily - English Eastday

An innovative new private equity fund s dedicated to building homes in Los Angeles's inner city.

May 3 - Wall St. Journal