The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

What happens when a Plan Commission has no architect, landscape architect, planner or developer from the private sector?

May 27 - The Capital Times

James Howard Kunstler on the impact of big retailers on communities.

May 27 - Orion Online

Reason Science Correspondent Ronald Bailey examines the book, One With Nineveh, to find out what environmental catastrophes await us.

May 27 - Wall St. Journal

The New Great Migration: Black Americans' Return to the South, 1965-2000.

May 27 - The Brookings Institution

Could a wave of expiring tax credits projects represent new opportunities for apartment building investors?

May 27 - Wall St. Journal

Los Angeles County is considering funding a study for a tunnel through the San Gabriel Mountains to connect North County cities with downtown L.A.

May 26 - Antelope Valley Press

The Financial Times profiles Zaha Hadid, who was awarded the Pritzker prize, architecture's most prestigious award.

May 26 - The Financial Times

Gertrude Jekyll's "wide wood path" informs a new burial ground at historic Mount Auburn Cemetery.

May 26 - American Society Of Landscape Architects

Two 'lesser known' design teams are selected over Gehry's design team for a high-profile $1.2 billion development in downtown L.A.

May 26 - The Los Angeles Times

Urbanization? Keep it in the court...house square, that is.

May 26 - The Chicago Tribune

A subsidy watchdog group details how Wal-Mart has received over $1 billion in government subsidies.

May 26 - CNNMoney

National Trust for Historic Preservation says the entire state of Vermont is endangered by Wal-Mart.

May 26 - The New York Times

Atlanta's new development is increasingly focused on rail stations around the city's Perimeter.

May 26 - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Wal-Mart experiments with a "grassroots approach" to garnering support for its expansion into urban areas.

May 26 - The Chicago Tribune

The National Trust for Historic Preservation publishes its 2004 list of America's 11 most endangered historic places.

May 26 - National Trust For Historic Preservation

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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Navstar.jpg"><img src="http://www.planetizen.com/tech/files//20040526-gps.jpg" alt="NAVSTAR GPS Satellite [Source: Wikipedia]" title="NAVSTAR GPS Satellite [Source: Wikipedia]" border="0" align="right" /></a><br /> <br /> This <a href="http://www.informatics.bangor.ac.uk/~jdl/gnss2004.pdf">keynote speech</a> [PDF, 28 kb] by David Last of the University of Wales, UK provides an overview of the U.S. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS">Global Postioning System</a> (GPS) and the European <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_positioning_system">Galileo Positioning System</a>

May 25 - Abhijeet Chavan

The benefits and privacy concerns of "databasification".

May 25 - Reason Online

Cities named in the "Livable Cities" list subsequently made $10,000 donations to the organization that released the list.

May 25 - The Los Angeles Times

20 crashes/year convince city to change traffic pattern in Lee Circle.

May 25 - Richmond Times-Dispatch

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Pew Internet & American Life Project<br /> <br /> A new report by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, "<a href="http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/toc.asp?Report=127">How Americans Get in Touch With Government</a>", shows that 97 million adult Americans, or 77% of Internet users, took advantage of e-gov in 2003, whether that meant going to government Web sites or emailing government officials. This represented a growth of 50% from 2002. At the same time, citizens who contact government said they are more likely to turn to traditional means - either the telephone or in-person visits - rather than the Web or email to deal with government.

May 25 - Chris Steins