The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Author Ray Bradbury of "Fahrenheit 451" fame predicts that in the next five years Los Angeles' freeways will freeze and explains why he believes monorail is the answer to the region's transportation needs.

February 6 - The Los Angeles Times

A $200-million hotel project, touted as the first major tourist lodging in the neighborhood since 1966, drifts into obscurity amid corruption charges aimed at the developer.

February 6 - The Village Voice

Ronal Brownstein urges the Bush administration to take bold steps to cure nation's oil addiction.

February 6 - Los Angeles

A coalition of environmentalists criticize the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency's voluntary Performance Track program.

February 6 - Grist Magazine

A list of top 25 stories ignored by the mainstream media includes one about a new coal mining technique being used in the U.S. that involves dynamiting entire mountaintops.

February 6 - Project Censored

The focal point in Miami's urban revitalization will include at least six large retailers.

February 6 - The Miami Herald

As mega-malls begin to emerge in established communities, communities have mixed feelings. Some think the development will bring traffic. Others look to increasing property values.

February 5 - The Los Angeles Times

Planners, students and citizens participate in a two-day visioning session to create a road map for the future of Seattle's open space.

February 5 - Seattle Post Intelligencer

Rapid transit is at the center of Grand Rapids' new development plan.

February 5 - Michigan Land Use Institute

Aussie investment corporation ING's $100 million deal nets 90 percent of U. Conn's off-campus student housing.

February 5 - University of Connecticut Daily Campus

For years, Lexington and 86th, considered the crossroads of the Upper East Side, has resisted gentrification. But those days are over, as a family squabble has been settled and a major mixed-use development project will replace some 1920s tenements.

February 5 - The New York Times

In San Francisco schools, some African-American and Latino children are mislabeled as 'learning disabled' due to cultural and behavioral differences from the mainstream.

February 4 - San Francisco Weekly

A new greenway, loft development, affordability, and cultural diversity are all are attracting homebuyers to East Boston.

February 4 - The Boston Globe

Not only was President Bush's discussion of energy in the State of the Union address 'woefully insufficient,' according to the NYT his failure to respond to the related issue of climate change 'is a negligence from which the globe may never recover'.

February 4 - The New York Times

The new study says that L.A.'s underserved areas need parks the most, preferably within one mile of homes, although more parks alone may not be enough to promote adequate levels of exercise.

February 4 - The Los Angeles Times

The son of Hitler's architect has been hired to design the 300,000-person 'Detroit of the East' in Changchun.

February 4 - Spiegel Online

President Bush said that new technology will cure the nation's oil addiction. Technology is already here; the will to use it is missing.

February 3 - The Los Angeles Times

As thousands of visiting Super Bowl fans converge on downtown Detroit, city officials are going to great lenghts to cover up the city's blight.

February 3 - The Los Angeles Times

Report concludes that the world's poorest countries are most vulnerable to the impact of greenhouse gases.

February 3 - Abhijeet Chavan

It may turn out that the first line of defense for coastal cities isn't the levee in your backyard, but that marsh in your backyard that the city built on top of.

February 3 - BBC