The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Plans for a $500-million luxury condominium project in Beverly Hills involving celebrity architects, and an environmentally friendly design are unveiled by developer, New Pacific Realty.

December 9 - The Los Angeles Times

For the second consective year, the Census Bureau has revised the population estimate for the City of St. Louis, resulting in a continued rise in population since the 1950 Census.

December 9 - St. Louis Post Dispatch

A new report finds that young people are increasingly preferring close-in neighborhoods. This is the so-called 'creative class' that is up for grabs.

December 9 - Chicago Sun Times

A review of a commission director's efforts to turn a Hawaiian island, devastated by years of bombing, into a model of environmental sustainability and cultural healing.

December 8 - The Maui News

The Center for Digital Government has posted the results of its survey, which examines how well city governments use technology to help its citizens.

December 8 - Center for Digital Government

In an age when malls are going the way of 8-track players, several Albuquerque area malls are planning to keep competitive in the 21st century with bold new developments.

December 8 - The Albuquerque Tribune

Leonardo DiCaprio is producing a documentary about global warming.

December 8 - San Francisco Chroncile

As residents are allowed back in to their flood-damaged neighborhoods, the world is beginning to learn the extent of the devastation in New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward.

December 8 - CommonDreams

Designed for both broadcast and print journalists, this guidebook includes background information on the issues as well as numerous story ideas and annotated lists of sources and research materials.

December 8 - Smart Growth America

Dubbed the latest place to 'see and be seen' in Phoenix, the city within a city development is expected to start construction in 2007.

December 8 - The Arizona Republic

Matt Welch, a media columnist for Reason magazine, charges that the LA Times "consistently failed to cover the property-seizing excesses of the school district's historic building boom."

December 8 - The Los Angeles Times

The Sierra Club has published a guidebook of 12 healthy and livable communities, built on redeveloped urban sites.

December 8 - San Jose Mercury News

The West Bank Community Development Corporation of Minneapolis has remained the last bastion of collective control of housing, working against the tide to prevent it from becoming just another financial asset, rather than a community’s asset.

December 8 - Shelterforce Magazine

Four years later, there are a host of unanswered questions about the events of 9/11, including the unexplained and unprecedented architectural collapses of three office towers, and the extent of toxicity in the air of Lower Manhattan.

December 7 - The Village Voice

New Paltz does not want the special charms of its small town, collegiate business district chained down.

December 7 - Times Herald-Record

Latinos die in pedestrian-vehicle accidents at a higher rate than any other racial or ethnic group in almost every Southern state according to federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data.

December 7 - The New York Times

Manchester councilman Richard Leese and Jason Prior of EDAW recount the civic-design partnership that helped revive an old city.

December 7 - The Planning Report

Using a wide array of economic and social indicators, the Metropolitan Policy Program has compiled the first in a series of monthly snapshots of economic and both short term and long term reconstruction trends.

December 7 - The Brookings Institution

House prices in most capital cities in Australias have doubled, putting them out of reach for young Australian families.

December 7 - The Australian

Many plans are underway in rethinking Denver's future -- from a new light rail service to high-density developments and new, mixed-use neighborhoods.

December 7 - High Country News