The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Seven teenagers use sheer will and charm to get 12-screen theater built.

May 20 - The San Francisco Chronicle

Crash pads (or the pied-à-terre) have long been popular in Paris, Hong Kong, New York and Chicago. Now they're becoming popular in Los Angeles.

May 20 - The Los Angeles Times

Labelling the stalled Freedom Tower design a "junkyard," celebrity developer Donald Trump has supported a plan to rebuild the Twin Towers in the same form as the lost towers...but one floor taller.

May 20 - Chicago Sun-Times

FBI identifies eco-terrorists as the nation's top domestic threat.

May 20 - CNN

New $225 million mixed use development announced for prime riverfront area.

May 20 - The Cleveland Plain Dealer

San Francisco moves closer to being bicycle-friendly by approving a policy framework to make pro-bicycle planning part of The City's general plan.

May 20 - San Francisco Examiner

As competition for students heats up, universities are expanding campuses and physical amenities.

May 19 - Wall St. Journal

Plans for the California river finally overcome all obstacles.

May 19 - Los Angeles Times

Labor interests and city council are concerned about the fate of neighborhood stores.

May 19 - The Cleveland Plain Dealer

Homeowners calls them McMansions. Developers consider them reinvesting and recycling homes.

May 19 - Housing Zone

A plan for Palestine reimagines the landspace and the Palestinian experience with a high-speed train liking major towns and cities.

May 19 - The New York Times

rly four years after 9/11, there are more homes, grassy parks -- and new challenges, too.

May 19 - The Christian Science Monitor

In defiance of the White House, the U.S. Senate approved a $295 billion highway and mass transit bill.

May 19 - The New York Times

Arizona's Vestar Development strikes early in less-populated suburbs with huge malls that anticipate growth.

May 19 - The Arizona Republic

An extensive interview with Dolores Hayden, the author of "A Field Guide to Sprawl" and "Building Suburbia."

May 19 - UnionDocs

The Bush administration is backing away from urban programs that Republicans of a generation ago supported.

May 19 - California Planning and Development Report

Wal-Mart modified its standard store design to satisfy the City of Ottawa's requirements for a unique landscape and architectural design that fostered a pedestrian environment.

May 18 - The Ottawa Citizen

Does unreliable data and analysis result in hidden taxes in the form of higher costs for infrastructure?

May 18 - American Planning Association

King County and the BNSF Railway in Seattle have begun negotiations to build 47-mile 'super-trail' over existing rail line.

May 18 - The Seattle Times

Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano is the state's most popular tourist attractions, but also by far the state's worst source of air pollution.

May 18 - Environmental News Network