Pratik Mhatre’s Urban Planning Blog

Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus ipod is an outstanding blog, on the order of Inhabitat or The Pump Handle. Excellent recent articles include:

Time Spent Sitting In Traffic, including this infographic:

Disaster Preparedness and Voter Response [PDF link], an economist at Loyola Marymount University concludes that “on average, every $1 spent on disaster mitigation prevents roughly $8 of disaster damage over the following five years” but voters tend to reward disaster response and recovery efforts more as compared to disaster preparedness leading to governments underpreparing for disasters.