The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

California Secretary of Resources, Mary Nichols, discusses the development of the Malibu coastal plan imposed on the city by the state Coastal Commission.

November 5 - The Metro Investment Report

It is ranked 67th in terms of population, but after it merges with a county, it will be the 16th largest city in the nation. Is merging cities a national trend?

November 5 - USA Today

Critics complain that an executive order by President Bush speeds up environmental reviews of transportation projects to help Republican candidates.

November 5 - ABC News

U.S. Transportation Secretary Norman Y. Mineta today announced an initial list of seven transportation construction projects around the country that will receive accelerated environmental review under President Bush's executive order.

November 5 - U.S. Department Of Transportation

Bruce Katz identifies the key challenges the smart-growth movement needs to address if it is going to succeed.

November 5 - The Brookings Institution

The Globe and Mail compares Los Angeles and Toronto and asks how large a city can get before it starts to fall apart. Does LA's secession foreshadow things to come?

November 4 - The Globe

Debate rages over whether Cornell's College of Architecture, Art and Planning should be saved. Are the three disciplines too far removed from one another?

November 4 - Cornell University

Secession efforts in the nation's second-largest city appear doomed to failure.

November 4 - The Los Angeles Times

Allowing deregulated telecommunications companies the power of eminent domain to build-out the "Information Superhighway" abrogates the Constitutional contract of just compensation.

November 4 - Planning and Markets

This is the question facing voters in communities throughout California: To grow or not.

November 4 - The Los Angeles Times

A University of Minnesota professor has received funding to test an electric-powered, automated system of small cabs.

November 4 - Star Tribune

Who wins and who loses after selfish development decisions are tallied?

November 4 - Planetizen

According to this New York Times book review, Keith Bradsher's book, "High and Mighty: SUV - The World's Most Dangerous Vehicles and How They Got That Way" is sobering, infuriating and necessary.

November 4 - The New York Times

While New York struggles with new toilet proposals, London's City of Westminster is using a novel solution

November 4 - The Guardian Unlimited

Over the next eight years, EU member governments will double the amount of rail linking EU countries and introduce higher-speed trains traveling up to 217 miles per hour.

November 4 - Business Week

Anthony Palazzolo has fought Rhode Island for over 40 years in what has become the quintessential battle over property rights.

November 4 - The Boston Globe

FEATURE

Who wins and who loses after selfish development decisions are tallied?

November 4 - Susan Hallatt

Hans Lind, writing in the academic journal, Planning & Markets, identifies the five specific types of market-oriented planning.

November 3 - Planning and Markets

The November 2002 issue of Carfree Times is now available.

November 3 - Carfree Times

A city in transition, Pittsburgh is striving to diversify its economy and become an urban success story.

November 3 - Urban Land Magazine