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Restoring the San Joaquin
Planetizen - Urban Planning, Design and Development Network
One of the largest and most complex river restorations in the West, on the San Joaquin River, should pass the Senate later this week- but not without controversy.
In Protest, Greenpeace Buys Runway Land
Planetizen - Urban Planning, Design and Development Network
Environmentalists have stalled the development of a third runway at Heathrow Airport by buying the land first.
Blumenauer Sees Brighter Future As Bike Momentum Builds
Planetizen - Urban Planning, Design and Development Network
“All of a sudden it’s hot”, says long-time bike advocate and U.S. Representative Earl Blumenauer, who’s hoping the country will ride this momentum towards a more sustainable pattern of development.
No Superfund Status for Rocketdyne Site
Planetizen - Urban Planning, Design and Development Network
California has rejected a proposal to list a polluted nuclear testing facility as a federal Superfund site. State officials believe they can clean it up more quickly and thoroughly.
A Study in Texas New Urbanism
Planetizen - Urban Planning, Design and Development Network
Terrain.org takes a look at Plum Creek, a New Urbanist development outside Austin, TX that added 1,400 households to a town that had only 4,000 people in the mid-1990s.
Vancouver’s Troubled Olympic Village
Planetizen - Urban Planning, Design and Development Network
Vancouver’s 2010 Olympic Village construction is way over budget and the city is holding the bill.
Recycling the Suburbs?
Planetizen - Urban Planning, Design and Development Network
The question is no longer how to improve the suburbs, says Allison Arieff, but what we’re going to do with all the leftover buildings and unfinished sites.
A Plea For a Pub in Salt Lake City
Planetizen - Urban Planning, Design and Development Network
Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker is talking about reforming the city’s longstanding restrictions on alcohol. Writer Luke Garrett puts in his pitch for relaxed zoning to allow an old-fashioned pub in his neighborhood.
Entering the ‘Maze of Zoning’
Planetizen - Urban Planning, Design and Development Network
In Virginia Beach, VA, homeowner Herbert Harris was told that the wheelchair ramp and extra bedroom he was building for his wife and ill daughter needed building permits. Thus began a trip down the rabbit hole of the Board of Zoning Appeals.
City/Suburb Relationship Doesn’t Have to Be Zero-Sum
Planetizen - Urban Planning, Design and Development Network
The suburbs are stereotyped as homogeneous, boring, cookie-cutter communities. But suburbs are evolving, according to this column from Tom Condon. Their relationship with cities is also changing — and it can be good for both.
