The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Vehicles stage massive park-ins and protests across the nation against aggressive pedestrians.

April 1 - Project For Public Spaces

After Vancouver said Wal-Mart's stores was environmentally insensitive, the retail giant hired an architect to create a new eco-friendly design.

April 1 - CTV

Houston decides to tackle the weather as its biggest impediment to New Urbanism.

April 1 - Houston Strategies

Officials at the National Trust for Historic Preservation that the role of preservation is changing to include neighborhood revitalization and the fight against urban sprawl.

April 1 - The New York Times

The Onondaga Nation filed a lawsuit claiming ownership of 3,100 square miles of New York state, inculding one of the nation's most polluted lake.

April 1 - The New York Times

As property gets more expensive in Washington D.C.’s bungalow belt long-time residents are being forced to come to terms with the large, new homes of their wealthy neighbors.

April 1 - The Washington Post

Switzerland's new 'Art & Architecture' tour will focus on a variety of urban landmarks throughout the country.

April 1 - SwissInfo

Why do long-time residents of a traditional rowhouse neighborhood resent garages?

April 1 - Philadelphia City Paper

Are there advantages to concentrating cultural institutions such as museums in one geographic area?

April 1 - The New York Times

BLOG POST

<img src="http://www.planetizen.com/tech/files//cover13_04.jpg" alt="" width="150" align="right" border="5"/>Yes, yes, blogosphere echochamber mutual admiration blah blah blah. It pays the bills, baby. My <a href="http://www.wired.com/wired/">day job</a> this month has a fun, interesting package on hybrid cars and how they're going to change the shape of the energy debate (and here is a <a href="<a href="http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.04/hybrid.html">link</a> to it, on which you may click upon with your mouse device, should you so choose).

March 31 - Anonymous

BLOG POST

<img src="http://www.planetizen.com/tech/files//mortality-1.jpg" alt="" width="600" border="0"/>You know the end is nigh. Now the big brains at Columbia have confirmed it. The <a href="http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/chrr/">Center for Hazards & Risk Research</a> has released a report (PDF chunks of which available <a href="http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/chrr/research/hotspots/">here</a>) called Natural Disaster Hotspots: A Global Risk Analysis. It lists (and maps and charts) the places on Earth most in danger of drought, earthquake, volcano, landslide, flood, or tornado.

March 31 - Anonymous

Homeownership has no "mystical virtue" that makes the owner more valuable to society, writes Mark Winston Griffith

March 31 - TomDispatch

Former national security officials try to convince the Bush Administration to invest $1 Billion in lighter, more fuel efficient cars.

March 31 - Truthout

A travelling exhibit offers a preview of the design for the 9-11 Memorial.

March 31 - The Buffalo News

A proposed combined stadium/convention center complex create what is universally recognized as two of the worst economic development engines in urban planning.

March 31 - City Journal

More than $2.5 billion has been committed to 125 projects as part of a plan to reinvigorate downtown St. Louis.

March 31 - The New York Times

Americans spend more than 100 hours commuting to work each year, and two percent face "extreme commutes" of 90+ minutes one-way.

March 31 - U.S. Census Bureau

Researchers from 95 nations participating in a 4-year study conclude that humans are inflicting irreversible damage to environment and degrading the earth's ability to sustain future generations.

March 31 - BBC News

In this week's Planetizen Op-Ed, Marisa Cravens examines planning through the cinematic lens with a recent compilation of important planning movies.

March 31 - Planetizen

Global warming is not all gloom and doom. Some believe that climate change would be beneficial.

March 31 - Wired