The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Growth opponents in Loudoun County, Virginia propose secession.

March 17 - The Washington Post

There are two big problems with mass transit, writes WSJ columnist P.J. O'Rourke: Nobody uses it, and it's far too expensive.

March 17 - Wall St. Journal

Far from the limelight of China’s construction boom, a new generation of young Chinese builders is emerging.

March 17 - MetropolisMag.com

This academic journal article traces the relationship between the planned space of the New York City (NYC) subwayand the individuated resistance of its riders.

March 17 - Space & Culture

New York remains the most expensive city in the nation to build new housing, but it doesn't have to be that way, according to a new study.

March 16 - Furman Center For Real Estate And Urban Policy

A new engineering technique could result in buildings on demand: Just add water to a bag and inflate it.

March 16 - Wired

Marvin Miller has grand plans to transform 600 acres of South Dakota prairie into a new "deaf utopia".

March 16 - Star Tribune

BLOG POST

Japan has cooler cell phones than us. We just have to accept. My sister-in-law lives over there, and every time she comes to visit, her phone does more stuff than mine. I get a camera; she gets a camera with a flash. I get downloadable ringtones, she gets to play MP3s. Grrr.<br /> <br /> Now, Japanese cell-phone app company <a href="http://www.navitime.co.jp/ja/topics/20050310.html">Navitime</a> (in Japanese) is offering a navigation service that gives you overhead maps (with real pictures) to guide you to destinations.

March 16 - Anonymous

The only thing people hate worse that a hole in the road is when the road is closed to fix the hole.

March 16 - The Los Angeles Times

Why the environmental movement is unable to achieve its goals and what it needs today to succeed.

March 16 - The New York Times

After years of planning, three Sonoran Desert cohousing developments provide lessons about living in the desert.

March 16 - Terrain

New York Times reviews the independent film "The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream."

March 16 - The New York Times

Corporations are using "psychographics" to label neighborhoods everything from "Bohemian Mix" to"Gray Power" in an effort to maximize economic development profits.

March 16 - Greater Milwaukee Today

Most expensive property prices in mainland China are in areas surrounding Xintiandi, where traditional Shanghai art deco features have been preserved.

March 16 - The Economist

Dramatizing the death of environmentalism doesn't help people of color.

March 16 - Grist Magazine

The city with nation's oldest and largest collections of historical structures cannot afford the tens of millions of dollars needed to acquire and preserve them.

March 15 - St. Augustine Record

Will the development of a new highway 500 feet from a homeowner's property increase or hurt a home's value?

March 15 - Wall St. Journal

King County Metro in King County, WA, is considering starting a passenger ferry.

March 15 - The Seattle Times

Randal O'Toole pushes back against Philip Langdon's article that questions whether Portland's growth boundary made the city less affordable.

March 15 - The Thoreau Institute

In two complementary papers, Robert Weissbourd and Riccardo Bodini examine the role of information resources in spurring markets and creating investment strategies to boost urban neighborhoods.

March 15 - The Brookings Institution