The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

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

California is pushing ahead with an ambitious plan to fight global warming.

December 7 - The Los Angeles Times

Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed's dreams of turning Dubai into an internationally renowned city is getting a boost from 'Dubailand' -- a themepark almost twice as large as Disneyworld.

December 7 - The Business Online

The new homes, which have the support of the insurance industry, aim to withstand hurricanes, floods and fires.

December 7 - The Wall Street Journal, Real Estate Journal

U.N. scientific panel reports on what it says may be the first example of people being formally displaced due to rising sea levels caused by global warming.

December 6 - Science News

Despite official reassurances that residents can safely return to salvage their belongings, the NRDC warns that the soil in New Orleans is dangerously contaminated with toxins.

December 6 - The Los Angeles Times

Report concludes that California will miss targets set by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to reduce greenhouse gases.

December 6 - San Jose Mercury News

An academic brief examines demographics and voting patterns in the “four Virginias,” or the major socio-political sections of the state.

December 6 - Metropolitan Institute At Virginia Tech

As the world's largest retailer plans to enter the world's fourth-largest retail market, some Indian businesses believe they know something Wal-mart doesn't.

December 6 - Rediff