The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Livable Places has developed a brief paper that de-mystifies the current dynamics of the housing market in Los Angeles.

August 9 - Livable Places

Denver's first of its kind bike parking facilty and urban transportation center helps relieve parking burden and offers visitors, employees and shoppers alike, to the Cherry Creek North shopping district an alternative to driving and payin

August 9 - The Denver Post

The Denver Post interview Peter Park, Denver’s community planning and development director.

August 9 - The Denver Post

Primary architect of the new World Trade Center, Daniel Libeskind, Pritzker Prize winner Zaha Hadid, and leading Japanese architect Arata Isozaki's design of three "pasta" towers will radically change the Milan skyline.

August 9 - The Guardian Unlimited

BLOG POST

Washington, DC - in our nation's capital, blogging about a New York Times article about Los Angeles. Isn't technology wonderful?<br /> <br /> The Times almost never gets LA right. They cover it like an alien planet, populated by strange, non-New Yorkers who also seem kinda hip (so what's up with that?). Usually, every NYT story about LA begins with the same implicit lead sentence that their coverage of Japan used to: "These freakin' people, you wouldn't believe what they're up to now."<br /> <br /> And then comes <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/08/fashion/08KORE.html">this</a>

August 9 - Anonymous

Many of the nation's urban parks are in decline, marred by trash and other problems. Cabbagetown's 4-acre park is an example of neighborhood parks can be relitalized.

August 9 - The Courier-Journal

Bank of America and The Durst Organization are building a 'green' 945-foot-tall skyscraper in midtown Manhattan.

August 9 - Environmental News Network

The Michigan Supreme Court rules that Detroit's 1981 eminent domain seizures of Poletown homes for a General Motors plant was not legal.

August 9 - Wall St. Journal

'Wham-Bam-Tram'and 'Streetcar Named Disaster' are some the nicknames given to the Houston's new light rail line between downtown and the Astrodome.

August 9 - ABC News

The Los Angeles Times profiles the controversial and litigious real estate developer Alan Casden.

August 9 - The Los Angeles Times

About a quarter of baby boomers now between 40 and 45 are thinking about buying a home in a senior community.

August 8 - Housing Zone

Storms send tons of sewage into London's Thames River.

August 8 - This Is London

When it comes to developing a city, the second time around is not easier.

August 8 - Smart City

The official economic development policy in many Washington, D.C. suburbs is to attract new jobs -- but not allow enough housing for all the workers.

August 8 - The Washington Post

The oldest continuously operating public market in Ohio, makes the transition to non-profit management.

August 8 - The Cincinnati Post

A new marketing campaign uses some of the reasons people hate Houston to introduce why "It's Worth It."

August 7 - The Houston Chronicle

Dozens of cities across America are vying to become 'the next Bilbao' in order to revitalize their shattered economies.

August 7 - CNNMoney

Increasingly, people are paying millions for beautiful, historic homes -- and then try to demolish them.

August 7 - CNNMoney

A blighted area of downtown Dallas is being transformed -- inch by dogged inch -- into an upscale urban neighborhood by Dallas-based Hillwood Development.

August 7 - The Slatin Report

The search for new developable land pushes out beyond the Las Vegas Valley.

August 7 - Las Vegas Review Journal