The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

The Los Angeles Times reports that one of L.A.'s most popular and historic districts, Olvera Street, has been horribly mismanaged.

June 16 - The Los Angeles Times

Healthy living is the unintended consequence of smart development.

June 16 - The Washington Post

A new report on Southern California land use shows that farming is making a surprising comeback in Los Angeles.County.

June 16 - The Los Angeles Times

Sprawl invades big animal habitats -- mountain lions turn up in Palo Alto yards.

June 16 - USA Today

There are a couple of new trends about where people and jobs are moving that may surprise you.

June 15 - Smart City

Tempelhof Airport, once a Nazi jewel and later site of the Berlin Airlift, will close later this year. The fate of the 3,000,000 sq. ft. building in the city center remains unclear.

June 15 - Deutsche Welle

This proposed 18-mile Intercounty Connector is estimated to cost 166 million a mile.

June 15 - The Washington Post

Planners around Texas are worried that Houston's deals with municipal utility districts will hamper regional development strategies.

June 15 - The Houston Chronicle

Borders committed to opening urban bookstores in Chicago, San Francisco, Detroit join Washington, other cities.

June 15 - The Detroit News

BLOG POST

This from reader Matt Bai, who responds to my observation that all the buildings in Times Square are coated with animated, lighted advertising signage: "I noticed the same thing when I was staying in Times Square recently. It's like a sci fi movie--everything is live action distraction. (I just coined that term, <br /> by the way--live action distraction. I want to be credited in your blog.)"<br /> <br /> Okay, Matt. There you go.

June 15 - Anonymous

Los Angeles' "starchitects" create trophy projects which are often disconnected from their urban planning context.

June 15 - LA Weekly

Inventor plans to develop technology to allow people to see through "invisible" walls.

June 15 - BBC News

While Boston's new Rose Kennedy Greenway will replace an elevated highway with a mile-long park this summer, key details, such as a final design, are not in place.

June 15 - The Boston Globe

Homeless activists blame the Reagan administration for rise in homelessness in the 1980s.

June 15 - Common Dreams

New York City's planners refuse to adopt inclusionary zoning due to equity principles that have no place in zoning.

June 15 - Planners Network

Has urban commentator David Brooks "cleverly packaged himself" as right-winger with a kinder, gentler sensitivity?

June 14 - The Nation

After years of coastal sprawl, Alabama's beaches finally see a trio of walkable, mixed-use communities.

June 14 - Mobile Pipeline

BLOG POST

We knew about <a href="http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=5NMBENMBBXMO2CRBAELCFEY?type=scienceNews&storyID=5408235">this</a> already - Reuters is reporting yet another United Nations report that says global warming and population growth are increasing vulnerability to floods. This time they say there'll be 1 billion people exposed to the threat by 2050.<br /> <br /> I didn't go back and re-read before posting, but if I remember right that's much the same as what the Pew Oceans Commission said about <a href="http://www.pewoceans.org/reports/water_pollution_sprawl.pdf">coastal sprawl</a>

June 14 - Anonymous

As Americans mourn the death of former President Reagan, Professor Peter Dreier remembers Reagan as the worst housing president ever.

June 14 - Newsday

A study details how retail giant Wal-Mart uses taxpayer dollars to fuel its growth.

June 14 - Good Jobs First