The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Cairo, struggling for open space, builds a 74-acre park on a 500-year old garbage dump.

November 29 - The Los Angeles Times

Opposition is growing to Governor Rick Perry's proposal for a 4,000-mile network of quarter-mile-wide multimodal corridors for transporting goods, people and utilities.

November 29 - Time

Are wireless networks set to become the new revitalization and urban renewal strategy for the city of the 21st century?

November 29 - Salon

A task force recommends ending free and subsidized parking in Washington D.C.

November 29 - The Washington Post

The Arizona Republic examines the anatomy of a major housing development by following the story of Lot 1311 in Phoenix.

November 29 - The Arizona Republic

The Congress for New Urbanism shows how mixed-use redevelopment of dead and dying shopping malls can create valuable urban assets.

November 29 - The Congress for the New Urbanism

Does the Latinos' cultural inclination to a lifestyle supportive of compact cities provides policy makers with a sustainable alternative that possesses a built-in consumer base?

November 29 - Opolis

A dramatic turnaround for property rights in the state with one of the most restrictive land use rules in the nation.

November 28 - The New York Times

The new journal, Opolis, features an article on the evolution of suburbs in Philadelphia's inner-ring.

November 28 - Opolis

The City of Albuquerque has concluded a years-long process to defineand implement impact fees on new construction in the city based on service districts.

November 28 - Albuquerque Journal

The "Olympic Bid Books" from London, Madrid, Moscow, New York and Paris are available online.

November 28 - GamesBids.com

New Delhi's rich heritage of Lutyens bungalows is safe for now... or is it?

November 28 - INTBAU

Los Angeles City Councilman Ed Reyes started his career in the Los Angeles Planning Department, and now wants to get rid of the the "zombies" in the planning department.

November 27 - LA Weekly

Athens officials had hoped that the Olympic Games would shake loose a reliance on cars. Now that the games are over, traffic has returned.

November 27 - Associated Press

Columnist Steven Greenhut see the impact of smart growth in Bozeman Montana, and warns readers to "be afraid, be very afraid."

November 27 - Orange County Register

Glen Canyon Dam releases flood waters in massive experiment to rebuild the sandbars and beaches in the Canyon.

November 27 - USA Today

A growing number of people are using bikes in Los Angeles, and their informal headquarters has become the Bicycle Kitchen.

November 27 - The Los Angeles Times

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<img src="http://www.planetizen.com/tech/files//20041126-steins-chavan-egov_01.jpg" align="right" alt="Web-based communication in e-government" /> In case you missed this on Planetizen, Abhijeet has posted his presentation and proceedings paper, <a href="http://www.urbaninsight.com/~chavan/2004/urisa-cms/">Developing an Open Source Content Management Strategy For E-Government</a> from his presentation at the <a href="http://www.urisa.org/">Urban and Regional Information Systems Association</a> 42nd annual conference.

November 26 - Chris Steins

Retailers are adpating to urban areas.

November 26 - The Philadelphia Daily News

The huge deficits and social security privatization promoted by the Bush Administration makes an economic crisis almost inevitable, Princeton economist warns.

November 26 - Reuters