The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

While Henry Ford chose to pay his workers enough to afford his cars, Wal Mart's market is in lower income shoppers and pays their workforce accordingly. How to keep growing? Create more poverty.

January 11 - The Nation

From muffler men to giant chickens, Indiana's landscape is full of gargantuan signage.

January 11 - Nuvo

Philadelphia's Mexican immigrant population isn't reporting rampant crime.

January 11 - Philadelphia Weekly

2004's top ten local issues in the central Texas region.

January 10 - The Austin Chronicle

Otis White offers his admittedly unscientific evaulation of the best urban journalists and newspapers in the U.S.

January 10 - Civic Strategies

Why won't anyone buy a Frank Lloyd Wright house?

January 10 - The Washington Post

A developer's ideas take this college town's urbanism to new heights.

January 10 - Des Moines Register

A review of the founding and development of the 50-year-old Greater Baltimore Committee.

January 10 - The Baltimore Sun

The debate over preserving L.A.'s Ambassador Hotel is a perfect case study in historic preservation in this 'equivocal city.'

January 10 - The Los Angeles Times

Rennovated theater is the first of many new developments in Columbia Heights.

January 10 - The Washington Post

Jeff Speck offers ten 'City Design Resolutions' for city mayors who want to build better places.

January 10 - Planetizen

MaryPIRG releases report connecting denser, mixed-use development to reduction of traffic congestion.

January 10 - The Baltimore Sun

Agency blamed for not taking a regional approach to low-income housing creation in Baltimore area.

January 10 - The Baltimore Sun

FEATURE

Jeff Speck offers advice -- in the form ten City Design Resolutions -- for city mayors who want to build better places.

January 10 - Jeff Speck

BLOG POST

<td>Take a planning challenge, add some technology and a pinch of public process, mix them just the right, and you have a recipe for good decision making. Orlando County Florida is cooking up such an event- and planners, practitioners, academics and members from all communities will be interested in watching their progress. <br><br /> <br><br /> Orlando Florida is embarking on a year-long initiative to address economic, environmental, land use, and transportation needs for a 90,000-acre study area in southeast Orange County.

January 9 - Ken Snyder

New York in the 1970's was a chaotic and 'gritty' place to live. But it was also perhaps the most creative time the city ever experienced.

January 9 - Wall St. Journal

A 40-percent decline in teen births since 1991 has reduced problems of poverty in Baltimore.

January 9 - The Baltimore Sun

Baltimore's public housing has been segregated since the 1930s, leading to concentrations of poverty in the inner city.

January 9 - The Baltimore Sun

Shutters could be more than quaint decorations on American homes in the 21st century.

January 9 - The Washington Post

Organizers of the L.A. Auto Show challenge designers to come up with the "perfect L.A. car."

January 9 - The Los Angeles Times