The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Seems some developers are taking Planetizen's recent poll to heart and are looking at closing car dealerships as perfect locations for new, dense development.

May 26 - The Boston Globe

A water- and chemical-intensive process to mine natural gas may pose a threat to the watershed supplying drinking water to 14 million people.

May 26 - AlterNet

The Seasteading Institute, a group that advocates creating sovereign nations in international waters, announces the winner of their seastead design contest.

May 26 - National Geographic

Titan Worldwide, a company that sells advertising on the sides of buses for the cities of New York, Boston and Minneapolis, is unable to pay millions of dollars in ad revenue it owes to transit authorities.

May 26 - The New York Times

BLOG POST

<p class="MsoNormal"> For many students graduate school is the time to learn how to write professional reports and memos. One of the skills many planning students seem eager to master is writing the content-free document. This kind of writing is a little tricky to do. Accordingly, in this last blog in my series on planning skills I provide tips on how to create sentences, paragraphs, and whole reports and PowerPoint presentations that convey the absolute minimum of important information. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <em>Titles </em> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> Titles should never reveal the actual content of the report. This is the guideline I find easiest to follow myself. </p>

May 26 - Ann Forsyth

Dealing with abandoned and foreclosed properties should be high on the list of priorities for the new White House Office of Urban Affairs, says Justin Hollander, assistant professor at Tufts.

May 26 - American City & County Magazine

Construction crews moved in to Times Square Sunday night to start work on another ambitious leg of New York's pedestrianization project.

May 26 - The Huffington Post

Three cities - three directions on how their transportation infrastructure was shaped by national transportation and housing legislation, and the role of influential leaders like CO Gov. Lamm, OR representative Earl Blumenauer, and NY's Robert Moses.

May 26 - PBS

A subdivision in Florida's Dade County is left half-finished, leaving early buyers to live in a ghost town.

May 26 - The Miami Herald

Bethelem, PA, long famous for its steel industry, has faced years of hardship when the jobs went away. Locals are pinning their hopes on a new casino opening over the ruins of a steel factory.

May 26 - The New York Times

BLOG POST

<p> This past week I had the pleasure and honor of participating in the <a href="http://americancity.org/vanguard09/">Next American City&#39;s Urban Vanguard</a> conference. Held in Washington DC, the event brought 35 young urban leaders together from a wide variety of backgrounds. The magazine--one of my favorites--did an outstanding job organizing and running the two-day blitz of tours, events, networking opportunities, and intimate conference sessions. In an effort to keep this brief, I have outlined three highlights from the second day of the conference.  </p>

May 25 - Mike Lydon

BLOG POST

<p> This extended holiday weekend is much anticipated personally because it signifies the return to a recreational activity that thrills me more so than any other.  By this time most years the weather has warmed up enough to prevent any further delay in getting my cheap, little sailboat ready “for the season”.  While there is very strong merit in, and a touch of <a href="/node/38336">previous discussion</a> on, the return to sailing vessels for the purposes of international commercial shipping, this Memorial Day weekend I rather turn to the merits sailing has as a sustainable, low-impact, and surprisingly cheap way of having fun and experiencing the splendor of nature first hand.  Won&#39;t you please take a few moments to consider how a traditional form of waterborne transportatio

May 25 - Ian Sacs

Chief Executive Officer of IBM Samuel Palmisano believes that "smarter cities" are key to a sustainable future, and so are the focus of three upcoming summits hosted by IBM.

May 25 - Huffington Post

While driving an electric Hummer H3, Senator Hatch proclaimed that policy for the auto industry "must address our real need for larger vehicles."

May 25 - autobloggreen.com

New York State, according to a survey conducted by insurance company GMAC using driver's education questions.

May 25 - NY1 News

The rowhouse, a style of housing that began in 17th century Europe, is gaining in popularity in the U.S.

May 25 - Chicago Tribune

FEATURE

Last week, Mayor Bloomberg's office announced an initiative to encourage developers to include grocery stores in new projects. Nevin Cohen, whose research focuses on urban food system, reviews the plan.

May 25 - Nevin Cohen

We're sorry to be buzz kills. But we've heard this one before. Like in 1990. And 1910. Do the automakers have the juice this time?

May 25 - Salon.com

BLOG POST

<p> <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rlhZCdZl2is/ShGQfdtBmQI/AAAAAAAAKqo/5Zv7aHqBTYU/s1600-h/IMG_7662_2+copy.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"> <div style="text-align: center"> <img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rlhZCdZl2is/ShGQfdtBmQI/AAAAAAAAKqo/5Zv7aHqBTYU/s400/IMG_7662_2+copy.jpg" /> </div> </a> </p> <p> See the building and the walls in the lower left?  They&#39;re designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.  They&#39;re part of the ensemble he designed at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT).  Mies and his office designed this corner around the same time they were designing the masterpiece on campus - Crown Hall.   </p>

May 25 - Edward Lifson

A new exhibition of the sketches, designs and architectural models of Frank Lloyd Wright opens at one of his most famous creations, the Guggenheim Museum in New York.

May 24 - The New Yorker