The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

In his annual state of the city address, Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick looks to build on the success of last summer's MLB All-Star Game, Superbowl XL, and the recent boom in downtown housing starts.

March 16 - The Detroit Free Press

There has been little to equal the speed and extent of the development of the Chinese city of Chongqing, which is growing so rapidly, a population equivalent to that of Luxembourg is added each year.

March 16 - The Guardian Unlimited

Downtown locations for many of the social service and training opportunities immigrants need may no longer make sense in rapidly-growing cities such as Calgary.

March 16 - The Globe and Mail

Cities and counties across California have struggled to find money for reinforcing bridges to protect them during earthquakes.

March 15 - Abhijeet Chavan

Opposition to an energy boom in Silt Colorado is building among environmentalists, property-rights advocates, ranchers, county commissioners, and mayors.

March 15 - The Christian Science Monitor

Volunteers work from midnight to four in the morning in the bitter cold to find the maximum number of street dwellers.

March 15 - The Village Voice

Former EPA chief Christine Todd Whitman touts smart growth in Indiana.

March 15 - The Courier-Journal

A new study shows that the number of households entering some stage of foreclosure is up 45% over this time last year -- one for every 1,117 U.S. households.

March 15 - MSN Real Estate

While research has yet to conclusively prove a link between neighborhood design and childhood obesity, studies do show that urban design considerations can facilitate healthy child outcomes.

March 15 - The Future of Children (Princeton-Brookings)

Stacked wood and concrete frame boxes create new immigrant homes in a San Diego suburb. Squatter housing south of the border inspired Architect Teddy Cruz.

March 15 - The New York Times

Energy concerns aside, suburbia has become unsustainable as an environment of debt and economic apartheid, writes John Barber.

March 15 - The Globe and Mail

40 years after the height of urban renewal, politics and real estate market swings have caused a prime 13-acre oceanfront parcel to remain vacant in Hull, Massachusetts. What gives?

March 15 - The Boston Globe

On the eve of her introduction into the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame, music superstar Deborah Harry of Blondie says that her "future will be in architecture and urban planning".

March 15 - Newsday

As California's housing boom continues, finding sufficient land to enable businesses to expand is becoming increasingly challenging. The potential impacts on California's economy will be dramatic.

March 14 - The Los Angeles Times

The San Juan municipal government (Puerto Rico's capital city) will penalize anyone who uses public structures such as lampposts and bridges to display posters and ads.

March 14 - Puerto Rico Wow

It's not okay for government to evict property owners in the name of "over-reaching redevelopment," a Los Angeles Times editorial warns.

March 14 - Abhijeet Chavan

Home sales have come to a near standstill in Shanghai, whose 20 million residents account for two percent of China's population, but 20 percent of the country's property value.

March 14 - The Los Angeles Times

The state has begun to consider imposing limits on emissions, but some are concerned that they will not meet EPA standards, let alone surpass them.

March 14 - The Austin Chronicle

Can you say Super Transit Oriented Development?

March 14 - Michigan Land Use Institute

Kalamazoo, Michigan, has developed a unique plan for revitalization: free college tuition for any student who enters the school system by ninth grade.

March 14 - Wall Street Journal via Pittsburgh Post-Gazette