The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

A Planning Commissioner offers the name for enormous, opulent homes on tiny waterfront lots.

May 5 - The St. Petersburg Times

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<img src='http://www.planetizen.com/tech/files//coolspacelocater.jpg' alt='cool space locater' /><br /> <br /> One of students was kind enough to forward this to me. The <a href="http://www.coolspacelocator.com/index.html">Cool Space Locater</a> is designed to match innovative and creative firms to spaces that may not traditionally appeal to businesses looking for office space. I could have used this in Philadelphia when I really needed office space that wasn't overpriced nor in Center City. The only resource we really had was Craig's list as there are few coordinated resources for finding office spaces for rent - particularly small, non-traditional spaces.

May 5 - Scott Page

Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley devise a way to map a city, street by street, recording every window and doorway.

May 5 - New Scientist

As Interstate Highway System approaches the 50-years mark, the system's future is becoming a subject of growing discussion.

May 5 - Innovation Briefs

In the second part of a three-part series on global warming, Elizabeth Kolbert looks at the impact of climate change on sophisticated cultures in the past.

May 5 - The New Yorker

Business 2.0 provides an overview of leading-edge broadband implementers across the US.

May 5 - Business 2.0

John Foote is considered to be Virginia's "shrewdest, most effective advocate" for landowners. Opponents say he undermines local government.

May 5 - The Washington Post

San Francisco urban affairs columnist John King visits Minneapolis and concludes that the city confirms everything he knows about cities.

May 5 - The San Francisco Chronicle

The oil industry faces significant challenges in the future.

May 5 - The Economist

New security questions about the siting and design of Freedom Towerprovide a valuable opportunity to weigh what it's all about.

May 5 - The Slatin Report

Research shows that urban planning needs to take an holistic, systems-based approach in order to create safe, healthy living environments.

May 4 - Environmental Health Perspectives

Quebec City, one of North America's oldest cities, turns 400 in 2008.

May 4 - The Globe and Mail

Microgeneration is the local production renewable power by individuals and small communities.

May 4 - Time

Automakers are betting that hybrid cars will grow from a niche market to the next line of "must-have" vehicles.

May 4 - U.S. News And World Report

The American Enterprise Institute's Joel Schwartz offers his annual column explaining why ALA's 'State of the Air' report is misleading again in 2005.

May 4 - Tech Central Station

The American Lung Association publishes its annual report on the state of the nation's air.

May 4 - American Lung Association

Thirteen points of pedestrian oriented development as presented by the planning firms Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company.

May 4 - CoolTown Studios

A new paper evaluates public policy options for responding to rising fuel prices.

May 4 - Victoria Transport Policy Institute

Bob Hunter, described as he "creative force" of Greenpeace, helped spur a global ecological movement.

May 4 - The Washington Post

Across the nation, neighbors are learning that banding together to create a new park can leave a community with a lot more than new swing sets and picnic tables.

May 4 - The Trust for Public Land