The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

University of California professor is developing robotsto automatically respond to traffic emergenciesfaster than humans could.

July 22 - Time

The potential benefits of public capital investments are of two sorts -- market benefits and "quality of life" benefits.

July 22 - The Brookings Institution

InformationWeek Stock Index reports that the new hot trend is a focusing on a decidedly real estate issue -- which companies own office property in LA, SF and Seattle?

July 22 - Information Week

A six month delay is granted to JARCO's 2-million-square-foot retail redevelopment project near North Hollywood's Red Line station.

July 21 - The Los Angeles Times

Wealthy retirees, aging baby-boomers, and professionals with flexible work arrangements aided by technologyare flocking to coastal areas and the resulting growth boom is reshaping the nation's coasts.

July 21 - USA Today

Plan to construct 63 hillside homes is rejected to protect thehabitat of the endangered Peninsular Bighorn Sheep in California's Riverside County.

July 21 - Press-Enterprise

Contra Costa Times columnist Theresa Keegan discusses Conta Costa's urban growth boundary. The goal should not be where Contra Costa grows, but how it grows -- slowly.

July 21 - Contra Costa Times-Walnut Creek

New fast-setting concrete that sets in four hours instead of two to three days helps Caltrans reduce traffic problems due to construction.

July 21 - Contra Costa Times-Walnut Creek

Poll finds Santa Clara County voters want the BART in San Jose and are willing to pay more taxes to make it happen.

July 21 - San Jose Mercury News

How would you like to commute 100 miles in each direction? It's happening in Silicon Valley because jobs there are a dime a dozen. Housing isn't.

July 21 - Planning Magazine

The Brookings Review takes a new approach to converting vacant land into valuable development.

July 21 - The Brookings Institution

Major donations from celebrity entertainers help environmentalists meet court deadline to post a $250,000 bond to temporarily halt logging near the Headwaters preserve in the North Coast regionof California.

July 20 - Santa Rosa Press Democrat

County planning analysis finds Sierra Club's open space initiative unlikely to ease traffic and or save agriculturein Alameda County, California.

July 20 - Contra Costa Times-Walnut Creek

An entertainment complex is planned for San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf. Too much like Las Vegas, say critics. Great tourist appeal say supporters.

July 20 - The Los Angeles Times

Increased housing pressure from hi-tech millionaires prompts conservation group to purchase oceanfront land to prevent development of trophy homes along California's San Mateo County coastline.

July 20 - San Jose Mercury News

Proposed 1000-home project in Oceanside, CA, approved by City Council.

July 20 - The San Diego Union-Tribune

Exhibition in Venice, Italy, explores new concepts of urban space, influenced by the Internet and evolving technologies.

July 20 - Wired

Amid concern about the environmental impacts of a new UC Merced campus, 60,000 acrese around the campus will be purchased as a wetlands preserve.

July 20 - The Fresno Bee

Concerns about growth loom large in San Diego. Residents see government as major part of problem, but optimism about region’s future reigns.

July 20 - Public Policy Institute of California

Monster billboards are becoming the bane of San Francisco planners, wher huge dot-com billboards are being hoised without permits.

July 20 - The San Francisco Chronicle