The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

A data-rich Web site that displays GIS-generated maps is now an essential tool for cities seeking to recruit new business.

October 11 - Governing

A report by the Economic Roundtable for the Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency analyzes the direct economic impacts of six social equity policies.

October 11 - Economic Roundtable

Daniel Libeskind, Michael Arad, and Santiago Calatrava, meet for the first time and discuss the WTC Project.

October 11 - The Gotham Gazette

The new 'Plan of Nashville' offers a new vision of downtown which replaces the interstate loop that circles downtown with parks and mixed use development.

October 11 - Tenessean

Housing prices in Britain have risen so high and so quickly that experts fear a dramatic drop in prices is inevitable.

October 11 - The Guardian Unlimited

The challenge for architecture is to be more firmly rooted in the real patterns of human activity.

October 11 - Planetizen

The mining city of Sudbury -- once so polluted and denuded that NASA astronauts practiced for their moon landings there -- is being recognized for its innovative energy conservation strategies.

October 11 - The Globe and Mail

Developers in Nevada begin importing water for decorative fountains to get around water conservation efforts.

October 11 - The Los Angeles Times

FEATURE

The challenge for architecture is to be more firmly rooted in the real patterns of human activity. Michael Mehaffy reports on the 'New Science, New Architecture' Conference in London.

October 11 - Michael Mehaffy

A new TCRP manual contains background, statistics, and a framework for measuring transit availability and quality of service from the passenger point of view.

October 10 - Transit Cooperative Research Program

Orange County, CA, responds to urban sprawl with high-rise housing.

October 10 - The Arizona Republic

What saved Seattle's light rail project?

October 10 - The Seattle Times

Samuel Staley challenges the allegation that "living in the suburbs cuts fours years off your life."

October 10 - Reason Public Policy Institute

The notion of "community-based regionalism" is increasingly capturing the attention of academics, activists, policy makers, and funders.

October 10 - University Of California, Santa Cruz

Congress clears the way for another round of up to 100 controversial military base closings.

October 9 - The Los Angeles Times

Architects crown Taipei 101 the world's tallest building.

October 9 - CBC News

When do issues of obesity and overweight become a societal issue in need of government intervention? According to a recent report in the Journal of Obesity Research, the public sector — counties, states and the federal government — cover

October 9 - Local Government Commission

Readers ask green-business guru Joel Makower practical questions about how to live the green life.

October 9 - Grist Magazine

A new report releassed by the Canadian Urban Transit Association (CUTA) reveals that Canadian public transit services provided 1.553 billion trips nationally in 2003 -- 22 million more than in 2002.

October 9 - The Globe and Mail

BLOG POST

To understand why cities matter in the presidential election, take a look at this map I cribbed from <em>USA Today's</em> coverage of the 2000 campaign, and how it ended:<br /> <br /> <img src="http://www.planetizen.com/tech/files//electmap.jpg" alt="2000 election by county" /> <br /> <br /> Red = Republican, George W. Bush.<br /> Blue = Democrat, Al Gore<br /> <br /> See where the blue is? Cities. One of the ways the Democrats lost the last election was in what's called GOTV -- Get Out The Vote. They weren't able to get enough urbanites (which is an electoral euphemism for minorities and the poor) to the polls.

October 8 - Anonymous