Land Use
The Planning Commissioner's Journal offers free access to an article about the devastating flood that hit theGrand Forks metro area in 1997 and local recovery efforts.
Planning Commissioners Journal
Human interference with the flow of the Mississippi for a century is one of the root causes of the devastation in New Orleans.
The Chicago Tribune
The former director of city planning discusses what will be needed to rebuild the city.
National Public Radio
Water has sustained New Orleans and perpetually threatened it. City officials estimated that 80% of the town is under standing water.
The Los Angeles Times
An excerpt from John McPhee's book, "The Control of Nature", shows why New Orleans has always been vulnerable to flooding.
Salon
A neighbors' feud in Malibu over eucalyptus trees that block an ocean view could result in jail time.
The Los Angeles Times
How far can a suburb be from a metropolitan area? How far are people willing to drive?
The Washington Post
Prestige developments may make for good plans, but they are "hell" for surrounding neighborhoods.
The Los Angeles Times
More Americans can’t afford decent housing.
Michigan Land Use Institute
New Orlean's weak building codes, lax code enforcement and old, wood-framed buildings could make Hurricane Katrina more devastaing.
The Miami Herald
The struggling Mission Center Mall has been sold to a New York based developer with plans to overhaul it into a dense mixed-use development.
The Kansas City Star
There really is a land supply problem where people want to live.
Freezerbox
Very often, underground land values appear to be a missing factor in land economics and planning.
Land Use Policy
Urban revitalization efforts enhanced by use of the long-lost Amulet of Surr-Vey, Lord Of Demarcation, He Who Measures And Assesses.
The Onion
Anticipating a new freeway interchange developers are planning new shopping centers, apartments, office buildings and stores.
The Idaho Statesman
The New York City Council passes a bill aimed at grocers making it harder for Wal-Mart to open a store in the city.
The Los Angeles Times
An Arizona rancher wins a defamation claim against conservation nonprofit, 'turning the tables on the green groups by using their own playbook.'
Wall St. Journal
Aside from climate, education may be the most powerful predictor of urban growth.
Harvard University
APA Executive Director Paul Farmer and Scott Bullock, the attorney who argued the case before the Supreme Court, go head to head over Kelo.
E&E Television - On Point
Big box retail stores are eating away at the 'American soul like a cancer', argues SF Gate Columnist, Mark Morford.
The San Francisco Chronicle
