The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

The California city of Vacaville is admonished to curb its sprawling ways; planners told to embrace smart growth.

November 15 - Contra Costa Times-Walnut Creek

Residents give the Santa Fe County Commission Chair and full-time realtor an earful on the commission's bad habit of handing out thousands of master plan approved lots before having proof of water.

November 15 - Santa Fe New Mexican

New York's new Irish Hunger Memorial provides a cautionary tale for designers and planners downtown.

November 15 - MetropolisMag.com

A land use survey reports that Californians prefer to live in single-family detached houses, drive alone to work, and -- contrary to popular belief -- are pleased with their commute.

November 15 - Public Policy Institute of California

Business Week, the AIA and Architectural Record team up to award the 2002 'Winning Workplaces' -- office space organized into neighborhoods.

November 15 - Business Week

A hard-hitting television campaign being developed takes aim at gas-guzzling sport-utility vehicles and says that driving an SUV helps support terrorism.

November 15 - The Washington Post

Trend is strong for land preservation, managing growth.

November 15 - Michigan Land Use Institute

New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg proposes a sizable new income tax on commuters who work in New York City but don't live there. [Link corrected]

November 15 - The New York Times

A development rights deal in northern Idaho is the latest example of conservation groups making deals with their historic foes to slow suburban sprawl.

November 15 - Wall St. Journal

Who will receive the National Planning Awards in Denver? APA has just announced its choices for this year's top plans, projects, and planners.

November 14 - American Planning Association

Israel seriously considers a string of artificial islands on the Mediterranean coast as a solution to housing and tourism problems.

November 14 - New Scientist

In an attempt to make the most of expensive renovation projects, school districts are designing facilities for both students and the public.

November 14 - The New York Times

Nikos Salingaros argues that many of the techniques used by early Modernist architecture schools bore great similarities to those used by cults tobrainwash their adherants.

November 14 - INTBAU

A campaign launched on radio stations and cable television asks Christians to abandon SUVs and drive fuel-efficient cars.

November 14 - The Washington Post

A fascinating Wired Magazine article reviews the concept of building "atomic walls" around the nation's most important urban areas.

November 14 - Wired

Even with the re-relection of Governor Bush, work will continue towards a florida Bullet train.

November 14 - The Florida Times-Union

A transit advocacy group -- affectionately known as the 'transit nerds' -- are making themselves heard, and changing transit policy.

November 14 - The Los Angeles Times

In response to rapid suburbanization, planners spent two years creating a 'Cracker' style design standard for central Land O'Lakes in Pasco County, Property owners opposed the standards.

November 14 - The St. Petersburg Times

Visiting architect Leon Krier tells residents in Pensacola that they should nurture their small-town environment.

November 14 - Pensacola NewsJournal

As real-estate investment trusts wind up their second year of deteriorating markets and dwindling rents, investors are asking: How much more financial stress can REITs withstand?

November 13 - REIS