The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

The state Public Utilities Commission creates the California Solar Initiative, but does it have enough power to popularize the alternative energy course?

February 3 - LA Weekly

Advanced archaeological technology is shedding new light on what motivated the prolific builders of early America in southwestern Colorado.

February 3 - Denver Westword

Dallas becomes the largest metro area in the U.S. to adopt the 'verified response' to business burglar alarms, meaning that local police will not respond unless business security guards tell them to.

February 3 - The Dallas Observer

Armed with 14,000 signatures, a community group petitions to restrict city's eminent domain authority to a 'strictly defined public use'.

February 2 - San Diego Union Tribune

Hosted by Carol Coletta, the popular Smart City radio show enters its fifth year.

February 2 - Commercial Appeal

Researchers around the world debate when it will be too late to reverse the impact of global warming.

February 2 - The Washington Post

Facing a doubling of passengers at the aging and space-constrained LAX, new Mayor Villaraigosa outlines plans to focus international flights at LAX, and push domestic flights to other regional airports.

February 2 - The Los Angeles Times

In advance of President George W. Bush's State of the Union address, William Rivers Pitt looks at widespread poverty and the ruins of New Orleans to state, "the state of this union is not good."

February 2 - Truthout

In an eight-part series, Gannett compiles three months of analysis to expose the serious problems of unchecked growth along the country's shores, along with a host of counterproductive public policies.

February 2 - Gannett News Service

How the tenants movement of the 1970s and 1980s evolved into the housing and community development movement of today.

February 2 - Shelterforce Magazine

The nation's largest urban park needs some sprucing up, and Melendrez landscape architects has recently submitted its draft master plan.

February 2 - The Planning Report

Elements of a new city council plan include an overall reduction in speed limit, a more streamlined tram system, and general opposition to increased road access for cars in the central business district.

February 2 - The Age

Two major newspapers report that the world is not only reaching a 'tipping point' where climate change is concerned, but that the Bush Administration doesn't want you to know about it.

February 2 - Editor & Publisher

In this op-ed, Bruce Katz and Robert Puentes argue that America's older, inner-ring, first suburbs -- like Nassau County -- must embrace a new vision for remaking themselves.

February 1 - The New York Times

In his state of the union address, President Bush says the U.S. is "addicted to oil" and alternate energy source will break its dependence.

February 1 - CNN

A new rail plan proposes to bring mass transit to Orange County.

February 1 - The Los Angeles Times

A TRB report explores how sustainability objectives can be introduced into the planning process for surface transportation facilities and operations.

February 1 - Transportation Research Board

An old timer remembers a center of Yiddish theater in New York from the late 1800s to early 1900s.

February 1 - New York Press

Creative class or not, Philadelphia artists are making a tangible impact on the city's neighborhoods, with support from major donors, and developers looking to cash in.

February 1 - Philadelphia City Paper

Neal Peirce reviews the flurry of rebuilding ideas taking shape in Katrina-ravaged areas.

February 1 - Stateline.org