The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

A recent piece in the <em>New York Times</em> regarding the unemployment rate among college graduates, and its bad news for Architecture students, has caused controversy and consternation within the profession.

January 19 - Archinect

Next American City Editor in Chief, Diana Lind describes how vital and particular Zoe Strauss' photographs are to the city of Philadelphia, and its cultural and political future.

January 19 - Next American City

A new report released Wednesday, to coincide with a U.S. Conference of Mayors gathering in Washington D.C., finds that only 26 of the nation’s 363 metropolitan areas had recovered the jobs lost during the recession by the end of last year.

January 19 - The New York Times

A.K. Streeter provides the scoop on a new four-lane superhighway solely for bicycles planned for the south of Sweden.

January 19 - Treehugger

Writing in <em>Urban Land</em>, Ron Nyren highlights his top ten historic preservation projects from the last half-decade.

January 19 - Urban Land

After a 5-year slide, Julie Schmit reports on investor and analyst optimism regarding the Housing Market in 2012 and beyond

January 19 - USA Today

Robert Krueger, writing in <em>Urban Land</em>, has compiled a list of the top 15 housing industry sources to follow on Twitter.

January 18 - Urban Land

Bruce Katz and Judith Rodin identify the forward thinking and innovative solutions that collaborative groups are implementing to restore prosperity to their communities.

January 18 - The Atlantic Cities

Kerwin Datu reflects on the implications of treating the world's diverse mixed-use slums as residential only enclaves.

January 18 - The Global Urbanist

It used to be that Rochester's fortunes were tied to its hometown company, Eastman Kodak. Peter Applebome looks at how the city has managed to avoid the long slide of its famous inhabitant.

January 18 - The New York Times

Ever wonder why LA's skyline is so bland? Apparently it was planned that way.

January 18 - KCET Departures

Trista Kelley reports on an alarming increase in pedestrian deaths for those wearing headphones.

January 18 - Bloomberg/Business Week

Jarrett Murphy writes of a single but significant line in Mayor Bloomberg's recent State of the City address which offers a potential solution to the city’s intertwined fiscal, garbage and energy problems.

January 18 - Next American City

After two brief, magical years in which public transit riders were treated as equals with drivers, the federal government is once again playing favorites.

January 18 - GOOD Magazine

Tim Sheehan investigates the lessons -- both successes and mistakes -- that can be learned from Spain's 20-year history with high speed trains.

January 18 - The Fresno Bee

Kevin Lynch be damned, a new study by a team of German psychologists reaches some surprising conclusions regarding the ways in which our brains navigate the city.

January 18 - The Atlantic Cities

The 102-mile circle that would become the Denver beltway sees no sign of completion as one city--one of Colorado's oldest--vociferously opposes it. But, at a regional level, it may be too late to curb decentralization and sprawl.

January 17 - The New York Times

On Tuesday, China's National Bureau of Statistics announced that China has, for the first time ever, more urban than rural dwellers.

January 17 - The Telegraph

An inspiration for Ebenezer Howard and the first urban planning conference in Britain or America, Amanda Kolson Hurley looks at how Bournville has evolved.

January 17 - The Atlantic Cities

President Obama's 25 year vision for a nationwide revolution in High Speed Rail is stuck in the station.

January 17 - The Washington Post