The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>The Planning Director for Maui, Hawaii, Jeff Hunt, prepares to take on a new general plan process. He was formerly the director of community development in the Rocky Mountain resort town of Breckenridge, Colorado.</p>

January 19 - The Maui News

<p>The only way to meet the challenges of the 21st Century is to address poverty, pollution and environmental sustainability in the world's cities, writes Worldwatch Institute president Christopher Flavin.</p>

January 19 - Tom Paine

<p>The town of Ogden, Utah, hopes to beef up its economy by promoting itself as an outdoor recreation capital. But some in the community fear that the tourism campaign may further encourage exploitation of the area's decreasingly pristine environment.</p>

January 19 - E, The Environmental Magazine

<p>Natural drainage techniques reduced engineering costs in one South Carolina case study by 31 percent over conventional methods. New Urbanists are searching for ways to make this the norm.</p>

January 19 - New Urban News

<p>Controversy over the lack of female faculty at Harvard's Graduate School of Design has erupted after a adjunct professor of landscape architecture submitted her resignation in protest of the school's gender imbalance.</p>

January 19 - Inside Higher Ed

<p>By implementing practical market reforms that discourage car trips, cities can solve traffic problems and improve air quality.</p>

January 19 - Victoria Transport Policy Institute

<p>The old San Francisco Armory, which has sat empty for more than three decades in city's Mission district, has found a new use, but local residents aren't exactly excited about this latest chapter of the neighborhood's gentrification.</p>

January 19 - Archinect

<p>A New York architect takes on the challenge of redesigning a 1920's era building in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood.</p>

January 19 - The New York Times

<p>Gentrification and redevelopment threaten the historic homes and buildings in the former foreign settlement area of China's largest city.</p>

January 19 - The San Francisco Chronicle

<p>One urban dweller calls on nature writers to take a look at Los Angeles, and other cities, in order to regain relevance in today's world.</p>

January 19 - Grist

<p>Supporters of the proposed $300 million Panama City-Bay County International Airport -- including the well-heeled St. Joe company -- talk of economic development. Opponents call the facility the "Airport to Nowhere."</p>

January 18 - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

<p>The family in Bucharest, Romania that owns Bran Castle -- famous for its connection to the 15th century medieval ruler who inspired "Dracula" -- plans to sell the fortress to local authorities for $78 million.</p>

January 18 - Associated Press

<p>While Vancouver's downtown residential population has exploded, the housing boom has crowded out commercial office space, to the detriment of the city's economy.</p>

January 18 - International Herald Tribune

<p>The New York Times profiles three different homes in different areas of the country that sell for $300,000.</p>

January 18 - The New York Times

<p>After a federal raid cost a chicken processing plant in Stillmore, Georgia, 75 percent of its mostly Hispanic 900-member work force, company officials hired locals -- mostly African-American -- to take their place. Then things got interesting.</p>

January 18 - The Wall Street Journal

<p>The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear a New York property owner's case against his city for its use of eminent domain to acquire his land for the development of a drugstore. The owner claimed that a drugstore was not a true 'public use'.</p>

January 18 - The New York Times

<p>Chain stores have invaded Manhattan and now look to open in other New York City neighborhoods. Meanwhile, San Francisco's planning commission has the power to reject chain retail and restaurants. And they have been using that power.</p>

January 18 - The New York Times

<p>East Palo Alto may be one of the few U.S cities of 30,000 residents lacking a supermarket. Now this 23-year-old city is close to getting one on a 6-acre vacant lot, but increased land costs forced the new developer to renegotiate the prior plan.</p>

January 18 - Palo Alto Daily News

<p>High-tech garages and online applications promise to help ease motorists' parking frustrations.</p>

January 18 - MSNBC

<p>City officials in Berkeley, California, are voicing concerns about a regional government association's proposed ousing quota for the next seven years, one which calls for a yearly increase of more than 200%.</p>

January 18 - The Berkeley Daily Planet