The San Diego Union-Tribune

Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens has announced his plan to reduce America's dependency on foreign oil, emphasizing the extensive transfer of wealth out of the country it has caused. His plan relies on natural gas vehicles and increasing wind power.

An Italian city planner visits San Diego to analyze sprawl-fighting techniques first-hand.

Following the lead of law enforcement, San Diego's code enforcement department is opening storefront offices where residents can come in with questions and complaints.

After three decades of planning, a new commuter rail line has opened in the San Diego area.

As the city of San Diego prepares to consider a new general plan, the San Diego Union-Tribune looks back at the last 100 years in city planning.

This past April, agencies responsible for fire prevention in the San Diego area were warning the Bush Administration not to cut funding for deadwood removal, saying it was only a matter of time before another major fire.

With the downturn in the housing market, a planned luxury condo tower in Downtown San Diego has been reworked into an affordable housing development.

Six years after 9/11, skyscrapers continue to be planned for dozens of American cities.

As part of a settlement of a lawsuit brought by housing advocates and environmentalists, the city council will move to cap the number of rental apartments that can be converted to condominiums each year.

With few residents able to afford a suburban home, residents of San Diego and increasingly other high-priced western cities are gradually embracing a new model for homeownership.

A plant company owner in San Diego, California, is hoping his new vegetated roof will help the concept catch on with others in the region.

Entrepreneurial students-turned-developers are turning houses into dorms around San Diego State University to meet the growing demand for affordable housing, but neighbors want the city to crackdown on the practice.

In hopes of inspiring future civic leaders, an innovative volunteer program teaches grade school children about how a city works.

A 65-ft tower in San Diego is being redesigned as a piece of modern art.

Consultants find that city officials held back a glaring report detailing the city's failing finances to clear the way for municipal bond sales for a new downtown baseball stadium.

An independent review panel of experts has challenged the transportation aims of the San Diego Association of Governments, saying it has focused too much on auto-oriented development and is essentially promoting sprawl.

Planners find it difficult to convince Southern California communities that the region needs higher density and transit oriented development.

Could forced relocation to safer ground improve the city's communities, or will its costs disproportionately impact the poor?

Since the 1950s, developers have done more to shape the city of San Diego than architects, for better and worse.

Scientists and environmentalists oppose new Mississippi River locks.