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Changing Skyline | City planning still bush-league By Inga Saffron Philadelphia Inquirer Architecture Critic
Submitted by Michael McAteer on Sun, 01/06/2008 - 7:16pmThere are two kinds of people counting the days until Mayor-elect Michael Nutter fires David Auspitz, the blustering, bullying chairman of Philadelphia's Zoning Board of Adjustment.
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Campbell's Soup Asks for Another 2-Month Extension
Submitted by Michael McAteer on Mon, 12/17/2007 - 9:09amCampbell's Asks for Another 2-Month Extension
Campbell gets time to secure OKs for headquarters plan
SARAH GREENBLATT
Courier-Post
Dec. 6, 2008
By SARAH GREENBLATT
Courier-Post Staff
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Austin Officials Solidifying Role of New Urbanism
Submitted by Joe Menard on Wed, 12/05/2007 - 12:04pmAs recent Austin Business Journal articles can attest, planning in Austin is becoming more and more dominated by new urbanists.
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Help Stop Campbell Soup World Headquarter Design
Submitted by Michael McAteer on Sat, 12/01/2007 - 2:23pmDear Readers,As each and every one of youare dedicated to sustainable Urban Design, I am appealing for your support regarding a conflict regarding the design of the planned new world headquarters of C
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Philadelphia Inquirer, University of Pennsylvania Call for Form Based Code in Philadelhia "Embrace 21st-century zoning..."
Submitted by Michael McAteer on Tue, 11/27/2007 - 11:24am "Ditch the complicated mathematics of conventional zoning for a new “form-based” code, one that starts with how a building meets the street, defines public space, and matches its context.
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The grand design for Philadelphia's Delaware River waterfront: Help Philadelphians reconnect with their river.
Submitted by Michael McAteer on Mon, 09/24/2007 - 7:07pmThe plan's biggest idea - and easily the most controversial - is the Penn Praxis recommendation to march the city's street grid right down to the river. In voicing his strong support,Democratic mayoral nominee Michael Nutter calls for "a more urban, Philadelphia-style feeling along the water."
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The Camden NJ Regional Equity Demonstration Project - Rutgers University
Submitted by Michael McAteer on Sun, 09/16/2007 - 12:12amAfter 50 years of continuous and accelerating job loss, population flight, propertymarket
decline, plummeting municipal revenues, and civic collapse, Camden has embarked on a
land-redevelopment process of unprecedented proportions, initiated by a state takeover of the city’s municipal functions, A... read more »
Campbell Soup plan challenged again. Campbell Soup deadline to resolve; this Friday, Sept.14.
Submitted by Michael McAteer on Thu, 09/13/2007 - 12:36amFiled in the Appellate Division of Superior Court, the suit is the fifth challenge to the proposed expansion of Campbell Soup Co.'s world headquarters here.
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NJ: Affordable housing shift blocked by court
Submitted by Michael McAteer on Mon, 08/27/2007 - 1:20amBy Tom Hester Jr.
Associated Press
TRENTON - A state appellate court yesterday ordered the state to reconsider a plan by a wealthy Monmouth County community to pay a poverty-laden nearby town to take on its affordable housing obligation, a decision hailed as crucial by affordable housing advocates. ... read more »
Southern California Missing the Point on Global Warming
Submitted by Joe Menard on Wed, 08/01/2007 - 10:38amRick Cole, 2007 Charter Award juror and city manager of Ventura, CA, writes a poigniant criticism in the Los Angeles Times of Southern California's planning techniques and environmental strategies. The state remains overwelmingly suburban and auto-centric, and while some developers try to densify L... read more »