The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Many Southern Californians find the grass isn't greener elsewhere, and the very housing market they cashed in on to finance an out-of-state move is now making a return back home much more difficult.

March 14 - Riverside Press-Enterprise

Earlier studies have looked at the effects of global warming on individual species. A new study shows that global warming is changing the entire northern Bering Sea ecosystem.

March 14 - The Los Angeles Times

In San Diego's new downtown plan, population would soar to 90,000 and employment to 170,000 in a smart growth scheme that includes many new parks and neighborhood centers.

March 14 - San Diego Union Tribune

Housing booms along the corridor of a two-year-old light rail line, decades faster than expected.

March 13 - Directions Newsletter

The Katrina disaster exposed the major fault lines of American society and politics: class and race. It offers lessons for urban scholars and practitioners, writes Peter Dreier of Occidental College in this academic journal article.

March 13 - Urban Affairs Review

With few restrictions imposed by land use plans, northeast Los Angeles has been like the Wild West for developers. That may be about to change.

March 13 - The Los Angeles Times

Without access to the kind of community support they once knew in their homelands, otherwise successful recent immigrant women to Canada are finding themselves socially isolated and depressed in suburbia.

March 13 - The Globe & Mail

Los Angeles Times editorial supports property rights in a dispute between a landowner and a group that has created a sustainable community garden in Los Angeles' South Central area.

March 13 - The Los Angeles Times

The Georgia Department of Transportation proposes adding eight lanes to the already 15 lane wide stretch of Interstate Highway 75 that runs through the northern Atlanta suburbs.

March 13 - Atlanta Journal Constitution

A recent controversy in Montreal might shed light on how to tame gentrification.

March 13 - Maisonneuve

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March 13 - Michael Lewyn

Gila Bend, 60 miles from downtown Phoenix, doesn't have much of anything -- except low real estate prices, which could mean it could get a lot more real soon.

March 13 - Phoenix New Times

Greening your roof could save you 25% on energy bills, help clean the air, and provide a cool place to relax all at once.

March 13 - Raleigh Durham Independent Weekly

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom vetoes the planning department's plan to reduce parking requirements in San Francisco's downtown (C-3) district.

March 12 - San Francisco Sentinel

A growing number of scientists support construction of a nuclear power plant near Houston as a necessary means to provide an alternative source of energy.

March 12 - Houston Press

The D.C. U.S. Attorney's Office proudly details success stories from cleaning up "nuisance properties" -- including crack houses -- on its website. But the results are mixed, at best.

March 12 - Washington City Paper

Michigan's governor rewards six older metro Detroit communities for successful completion of the Michigan Suburbs Alliance Redevelopment Ready Communities Initiative.

March 12 - Oakland Press

A new book ponders the state of the Everglades after decades of urban encroachment, and how we may restore them to their natural splendor.

March 12 - The New Republic

From East St. Louis to Louisville, Kentucky, cities are beginning to realize visions of riverfront glory.

March 11 - The Baltimore Sun

A federally funded program provides low-income commuters, who regularly need three-hours or more on public transit in order to reach suburban jobs, with faster, more feasible options.

March 11 - Philadelphia City Paper