The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Neal Peirce shows how the innocuous language in Oregon's Measure 37 conceals the potential to turn the State into an "eruption of Burger Kings and Wal-Marts."

December 15 - The Seattle Times

At just under one-half mile tall, construction is set to begin on the Burj Dubai skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

December 15 - New Scientist

Tax assessors are taking a bigger bite out of household finances. Now taxpayers may be "biting back."

December 15 - The Christian Science Monitor

Ada Louise Huxtable reviews the new Museum of Modern Art -- "the right building for New York."

December 15 - Wall St. Journal

Region's busiest airport has become a destination for businesses and travelers alike.

December 14 - The Washington Post

A Canadian company wants to begin extracting gold and silver from a mountain in Cerro de San Pedro.

December 14 - The Christian Science Monitor

Philadelphians debate whether an imitation colonial-style building from the 1960s should be preserved for its historic significance.

December 14 - The Philadelphia Inquirer

The first affordable housing project to combine special green building funding with federal low-income housing tax credits breaks ground in Seattle.

December 14 - Forbes

Howard County, Maryland suggests land donation from developers as a possibility to achieve the county’s goal for moderate-income housing development.

December 14 - The Baltimore Sun

From world overpopulation to global warming, writer Michael Crichton asks whether it is time for 'some healthy skepticism?'

December 14 - Parade

The US Census Bureau now has a category for semi-rural areas.

December 14 - The New York Times

Allegedly voluntary program deemed an actual requirement; developers had protested.

December 14 - The Washington Post

Rapid population growth with result in unprecendented residential and commercial development in the next twenty-five years.

December 14 - Yahoo! Newswire

The new year could well bring the "last blowout of the credit card era", and with it a "fire sale" of U.S. real etate, predicts James Howard Kunstler.

December 14 - James Howard Kunstler

BLOG POST

Hey, look, it's another way to look at city/non-city living! It's from the <em>New York Times Magazine's</em> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/12/magazine/12MICROPOLIS.html?oref=login">Year in Ideas</a> issue (reg. req'd). Here it is: your moment of geographic zen.<br /> <br /> <img src="http://www.planetizen.com/tech/files//12micr.650.jpg" alt="Micropolises" /> <br /> <br /> What does it say about you if you live in a dark green region? Um...that you shop at WalMart? That you have satellite TV? That you're more likely to drive a truck?<br /> <br /> I've read the <em>Times</em> article and I still don't really get it.

December 13 - Anonymous

A major surge in development is projected for the next few decades offering an opportunity to change the landscape of the nation.

December 13 - The Brookings Institution

A new report seeks to demonstrate how better planning can save California's Bay Area billions of dollars and ease the housing shortage.

December 13 - Transportation And Land Use Collaborative

Baby boomers who moved out of cities when they had kids, are now moving back.

December 13 - Times Union

Many cites want to provide wireless Internet. But they're up against tough competition that will try to stop them.

December 13 - The Christian Science Monitor

Veterans of the Iraq war have begun showing up in the nation's homeless centers. Advocates are worried that it is just the beginning.

December 13 - The Washington Times