The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

The US Census Bureau now has a category for semi-rural areas.

December 14 - The New York Times

Allegedly voluntary program deemed an actual requirement; developers had protested.

December 14 - The Washington Post

Rapid population growth with result in unprecendented residential and commercial development in the next twenty-five years.

December 14 - Yahoo! Newswire

The new year could well bring the "last blowout of the credit card era", and with it a "fire sale" of U.S. real etate, predicts James Howard Kunstler.

December 14 - James Howard Kunstler

BLOG POST

Hey, look, it's another way to look at city/non-city living! It's from the <em>New York Times Magazine's</em> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/12/magazine/12MICROPOLIS.html?oref=login">Year in Ideas</a> issue (reg. req'd). Here it is: your moment of geographic zen.<br /> <br /> <img src="http://www.planetizen.com/tech/files//12micr.650.jpg" alt="Micropolises" /> <br /> <br /> What does it say about you if you live in a dark green region? Um...that you shop at WalMart? That you have satellite TV? That you're more likely to drive a truck?<br /> <br /> I've read the <em>Times</em> article and I still don't really get it.

December 13 - Anonymous

A major surge in development is projected for the next few decades offering an opportunity to change the landscape of the nation.

December 13 - The Brookings Institution

A new report seeks to demonstrate how better planning can save California's Bay Area billions of dollars and ease the housing shortage.

December 13 - Transportation And Land Use Collaborative

Baby boomers who moved out of cities when they had kids, are now moving back.

December 13 - Times Union

Many cites want to provide wireless Internet. But they're up against tough competition that will try to stop them.

December 13 - The Christian Science Monitor

Veterans of the Iraq war have begun showing up in the nation's homeless centers. Advocates are worried that it is just the beginning.

December 13 - The Washington Times

ZipCar has become a way of life for 3.5% of residents in it's hometown of Cambridge, MA.

December 13 - Cambridge Chronicle

Some fear plan for high-density areas will uproot county's suburban qualities.

December 13 - The Washington Post

A Chesapeake Bay homeowner on a small wooded island builds a 3,500-square-foot house without permits.

December 13 - The Baltimore Sun

Historic facade easements create a tax windfall in D.C.

December 13 - The Washington Post

A website includes breathtaking aerial photos from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire.

December 13 - Research Triangle Park Network

BLOG POST

<img src="http://www.planetizen.com/tech/files//liferay_thumb1.gif" alt="Liferay thumb" align="right"/>I just discovered <a href="http://www.liferay.com/home/index.jsp">Liferay</a>, an open source portal, after reading <a href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0110120/">David Fletcher's discussion</a> of Portal Architectures on his blog.<br /> <br /> Although I have seen and evaluated <a href="http://phpwebsite.appstate.edu/">PHP Website"</a>, I haven't seen see Liferay, which is equally -- perhaps more -- impressive.

December 12 - Chris Steins

Transportation officials, citizens polishing new people-and-pavement policies

December 12 - Michigan Land Use Institute

The People's Waterfront Coalition (PWC), a group of Seattle activists is lobbying Washington State officials to abandon its costly Bostonesque Alaska Way Viaduct replacement project.

December 12 - The Stranger

How Berlin went awry since the fall of the wall.

December 12 - Reason Online

An Acura driver gets a ticket for parking in a parking spot reserved for SUVs.

December 12 - The San Francisco Chronicle