The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Mixed communication, contested railway lines and the collision of local, state and federal entities has put the future of Atlanta's Beltline greenspace and transit project.

February 4 - Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Developers in British Columbia are not hopeful for their field's outlook, estimating that the market freeze could last for another year and a half.

February 4 - The Globe and Mail

BLOG POST

<p> <span><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman">We have just published a new report, </span></span><span><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman">&quot;</span><a href="http://www.vtpi.org/econ_stim.pdf"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman">Smart Transportation Economic Stimulation: Infrastructure Investments That Support Strategic Planning Objectives Provide True Economic Development</span></a><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman">&quot;</span></span> which <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: navy; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">discusses factors to consider when evaluating transportation economic stimulation strategies.

February 3 - Todd Litman

Futurist Dr. Ray Kurzweil is part of a team of big thinkers on the faculty of Singularity University, a joint project of Google and NASA with a mission to solve "humanity's grand challenges."

February 3 - TechCrunch

Brad Templeton, chairman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, hopes that robot-driven cars will become commonplace on our roads in the next decade or two.

February 3 - Boing Boing

In an effort to improve gas mileage, 400 drivers in Denver participated in an experiment that tracked and reported the bad driving habits -- idling, rapid accelerating and braking -- that waste fuel. Faced with the data, driving habits have changed.

February 3 - Los Angeles Times

As part of the city's drawn-out battle with outdoor advertisers, Los Angeles officials have ordered building owners to remove "supergraphic" ads plastered to the sides of large buildings.

February 3 - The New York Times

A long-help plan to install GPS-ready bus tracking equipment to New York City buses has been pushed off indefinitely.

February 3 - NY1 News

Following similar discoveries of fraud in the U.S., the Italian government has uncovered a scheme to increase local revenues by artificially shortening yellow lights.

February 3 - BBC News

"Branded cities" -- new heavily-sponsored real estate developments with a mix of live- work- and retail-space -- are gaining popularity among developers and spreading around the country.

February 3 - Media Week

More than 20 million Chinese who had migrated to cities for work have been forced to return to the rural countryside as urban jobs dry up.

February 3 - Guardian

New updates to the online visualization program Google Earth add oceans to the image-based virtual version of the planet.

February 3 - The New York Times

This three-part series from the <em>BBC</em> looks at bicycles in the modern world -- from Paris to Uganda to India.

February 3 - BBC

A program known as ‘cash for clunkers’ is being considered for inclusion in the Senate stimulus package to make the U.S. auto fleet more fuel-efficient and stimulate demand for new, cleaner cars. Will the older vehicles will be scrapped or resold?

February 2 - Bloomberg News

The city of Dallas is committing to purchase homes for hundreds of homeless residents, rather than building shelters.

February 2 - Dallas Morning News

Artist Joshua Callaghan paints over utility boxes in his community to make them disappear into their surroundings.

February 2 - Joshua Callaghan

Jones Plaza in Central Houston was redesigned in 2001 to accommodate large concerts and events, but locals objected to the lack of green space. So planners are going back to the drawing board.

February 2 - The Houston Chronicle

Environmental activists and other organizations are using Google Earth to document environmental damage and to promote their various causes.

February 2 - Conscious Choice

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<p> <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana">Paterson</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana">?<span>  </span>Yeah <a href="http://www.patersonhistory.com/">Paterson</a>, the City 13 miles to the west of NYC.<span>  </span>Birthplace of American industry, the “Silk City” founded by Alexander Hamilton and designed by Washington DC’s master planner Pierre Charles L’Enfant.<span>  </span>Besides textiles, Paterson was home to the first repeating revolver, first submarine and the Rogers Locomotive Works that, at one time, manufactured 80% of the Country’s locomotives.<span>  </span>Paterson is also home to the second largest waterfall in the northern hemisphere (Niagra Falls taking top honors of course) and a collection of foreign born residents so lar

February 2 - Scott Page

The city of Toronto is considering a plan to fast-track the construction of a new downtown subway line.

February 2 - The National Post