Technology
New Website Shows Impact Of Transportation On Housing Costs
A new interactive mapping website launched by the Center for Neighborhood Technology in partnership with The Brookings Institution shows how affordability changes from neighborhood to neighborhood based on housing and transportation.
City Silences Cell Phones On Transit
Responding to the growing backslash against cell phone chatter, the city of Graz, Austria has banned cell phone use on its public transit system.
The New Graffiti
Using laser technology, two artists have created a new type of "temporary graffiti" -- light shows that use public places as canvasses for their laser art.
San Francisco Aims To Give Parking A Technological Makeover
Variable parking rates and online parking availability are features of a pilot program meant to increase convenience and cut congestion on the road.
Let the Computer Do the Driving
Avoiding traffic congestion may soon be as easy as surfing the web, thanks to new web software that maps out congestion and calculates the best and most efficient driving routes.
The Real Problem With Transit: Lack Of Customer Service
Forget slogans and fancy trains. If transit agencies just focused on getting people where they need to go in a consistent, reliable (and preferably quicker) way, more people would abandon their cars.
Could Google Transit Become The Universal Trip Planner?
As the site adds more transit systems to its database, some hope that Google's transit route planner could become as useful as its car route mapping software.
Web 2.0 in Planning
Hot technologies like blogs, mashups, YouTube, Flickr, and social networking are among the most notable of new Internet technologies that are collectively known as Web 2.0. These technologies offer great possibilities for planners.
Enhancing Public Transit With Wi-Fi
Some transit agencies are hoping to woo riders by providing internet access on bus and rail vehicles, allowing commuters to check email and surf the web on the way to work.
Facilitating A Community Dialog On The Internet
The City of Oak Harbor, Washington is giving residents a chance to sound off about planning and development issues on several blogs.
Google Sued Over 'Street View'
Pittsburgh couple sues Google for invasion of privacy after photos of their home are published on Google's "Street View" mapping feature.
Slow Adoption For SF's Pay-By-Phone Parking Meters
The city has outfitted more than 1,000 parking meters with new technology to allow motorists to pay over the phone. Yet most of them haven't noticed.
Will Boston's Citywide Wi-Fi Network Be Realized?
Boston's plan to blanket the city with wireless internet access has met a series of obstacles which seriously threaten the project.
Pittsburgh Wrestling With New LED Billboards
A six-month moratorium on new billboards has been passed by the Pittsburgh City Council as it struggles to formulate a policy for brightly lit LED signs.
Wi-Fi Plans Dropped Over Health Concerns
Officials in the California city of Sebastopol have gone back on an agreement with an Internet provider that was planning to create a municipal Wi-Fi network for the city. They cited health concerns in their decision.
Computer Problems Prompt Census Bureau to Rethink Counting Method
Technological issues with the handheld computers to be used in the U.S. Census Bureau's 2010 Census have frustrated officials and have them considering a plan to return to the traditional paper and pencil counting method of years past.
Venice Plans For Sea Level Rise
Operation "Rialto" will lift some Venice buildings up to 3.3 feet in an effort to avoid the negative implications of sea level rise.
Who's Ready for Peak Oil?
Report ranks largest 50 US cities by their readiness for $4+ a gallon gas and $100+ a barrel oil prices
Can Wi-Fi Make Congestion Pricing Work?
An innovative proposal seeks to deal with both vehicle and internet congestion by placing Wi-Fi access transmitters in cars driving through urban areas.
FREE Course: Walkable City 1: Why Walkability?
After describing his path towards focusing on walkability as the essence of good planning, Jeff Speck marches through his five principal reasons for making more walkable places.
Reinventing Malls: Planning Alchemy—Turning Gray Fields Into Gold
The course focuses on the opportunities and imperatives that shape reinvention of mall sites.
City of Rosemead
Rutgers University, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
One Hundred Miles
University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS)
Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY)
The Architects Foundation
City of Cambridge
Montrose County
The Pocatello Development Authority
