The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Daniel Gilbert, a professor of psychology at Harvard University, looks into the human brain for reasons why we ignore threats such as global warming.

July 5 - The Los Angeles Times

Honda North America put the town of Greensburg, Indiana on the map last week when it decided to build its sixth auto assembly plant there, representing an investment of about $550 million.

July 5 - The Slatin Report

Mariel Garza, columnist for the L.A. Daily news, spent 30 days leaving her car at home and taking the bus for nearly all trips.

July 5 - L.A. Daily News

Lured by billions of dollars in government investment, brand new research equipment and facilities, and the opportunity to conduct research unfettered by social politics, biotech researchers are increasingly setting up shop in Singapore.

July 5 - Austin American-Statesman

Critics in New York City cite that community groups and city officials are often swayed to approve projects by unrelated freebies provided by the developer.

July 5 - The New York Times

<p>Architects and builders are rushing to design and build new simple but cozy homes for storm victims living in FEMA trailers.</p>

July 5 - Associated Press

Ethics specialists wearing "moral compasses" as necklaces spent two days taking elected officials from Florida, Texas, and Arizona through various exercises in ethical governance.

July 5 - The Christian Science Monitor

FEATURE

From affordable housing development to the Trump Towers, the dynamic yet low profile real estate industry represents so much more than brokerage, writes James Carberry, co-author of <em>The Inside Track to Careers in Real Estate</em>, in this Op-Ed.

July 5 - James Carberry

With a history of bulldozing older buildings to accommodate the new, it is not surprising that many modernist structures are threatened by Atlanta's growth. The question remains, are these buildings people want to save?

July 5 - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

With one of the densest central urban cores in China, Shanghai officials have decided to spread out its growing population in new satellite suburbs.

July 5 - China Daily

When authorities closed down the South Central garden in Los Angeles, the community lost more than an urban farm writes columnist Al Martinez.

July 4 - The Los Angeles Times

As large McMansions move into suburban areas, many of the smaller older houses are being pushed out of the neighborhood by higher taxes, or by demolition to make room for larger homes.

July 4 - The Chicago Tribune

The Indian government has demolished a housing slum in Mumbai, displacing thousands. Though the government has promised replacement homes for many of the slum's documented citizens, thousands without documentation are now also without homes.

July 4 - BBC

Writer and professor Deborah Tannen compares the experiences of American women who were molested on public transit with those of Greek women who are markedly less tolerant of such behavior.

July 4 - The New York Times

One American journalist rides along with members of China's new car owning class as they discover the thrill of the open road.

July 4 - The New York Times Magazine

Vacation travel for the Washington area is expected to surpass last year's forcast.

July 3 - The Washington Post

The Washington Post finds that the government has paid over $1.3 billion in agricultural subsidies to non-farmers, under a decades-old policy intended to eliminate subsidies. The policies are changing land use patterns in the Farm Belt.

July 3 - The Washington Post

FEATURE

July 3 - Michael Jelks

The Housing and Transportation Affordability Index is a new tool calculates affordability at the census tract level by taking into account not only housing costs, but transportation as well.

July 3 - The Chicago Tribune

A review of Kenneth Helphand's new book "Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime".

July 3 - The Capital Times