The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Researchers say the Earth's drought areas have doubled since the 1970s and rising global temperatures are a major factor.

January 13 - The Rocky Mountain News

Expansion Management Magazine will publish its list of the nation's 50 'hottest cities' in its January, 2005 issue.

January 13 - Expansion Management

The rapid consumption of land in the nation’s fastest-growing large metropolitan areas could threaten the survival of nearly one out of every three imperiled species, according to the first study ever to quantify the impact of sprawling development on wil

January 12 - Smart Growth America

ASLA reports an expected significant growth in demand for landscape architecture services.

January 12 - American Society Of Landscape Architects

Four new "downtowns" key to bringing rapid transit to fast-growing York Region.

January 12 - The Toronto Star

Lots more hybrids and hydrogen cars are in the pipeline as public recognizes environmental limitations.

January 12 - The Los Angeles Times

A review of literature -– some scathing -– on the complexities of Orange County, California.

January 12 - Orange County Weekly

Sustainability planning may be precisely the wrong approach, argues Peter Gordon.

January 12 - University Of Southern California

Bipartisan flavor works in program’s favor

January 12 - Michigan Land Use Institute

Architects and planners are eager to help tsunami victims rebuild. But Western solutions are not always the best.

January 12 - The Guardian Unlimited

A small neighborhood school, or housing where teachers and other helping professionals can afford to live? Hard choices in suburban D.C.

January 12 - The Washington Post

The state moves 90 percent off welfare, but many remain in poverty.

January 12 - The Christian Science Monitor

BLOG POST

What happens in a city where the rule of law and public health fall apart, but capitalism and technology do not? It's a different kind of post-apocalyptic town -- Los Angeles without the Blade Runners, or maybe just present-day Johannesburg. <a href="http://www.nwc.navy.mil/press/Review/2003/Autumn/art6-a03.htm">Here's</a> an article from the <em>Naval War College Review</em> from a couple years back that sketches the map of such a city. All the problems of a megacity and none of the fun, it sounds like.

January 11 - Anonymous

Eugene, Oregon's Urban Growth Boundary might be more flexible than you think.

January 11 - Eugene Weekly

City planner Peter Park is making a name for himself and his profession.

January 11 - Denver Westword

While it is hard to imagine the 20th Century without the automobile, it is equally hard to imagine the 21st Century with it - at least as is. A look at what the international automobile industry is doing to clean up their products.

January 11 - OnEarth

How will a Tucson redevelopment project impact the city's public housing community?

January 11 - Tucson Weekly

Architects are contributing time and skills to help rebuild the thousands of homes that were destroyed by the South Asian tsunami.

January 11 - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

City bigwigs review the most successful planning efforts in Denver history.

January 11 - Denver Westword

Consumers are in "denial" about "land tanks" and continue to buy them in huge numbers in spite of the evidence that they are actually more dangerous to drive than standard cars.

January 11 - The San Francisco Chronicle