The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

California and other urban, high-priced meccas are seeing a huge jump in out-migration, largely due to escalating home prices. Previously unemployment drove the flight, but now the job market is healthy.

November 9 - The New York Times

The real estate boom has hit even the parking lot in LA. A new high-rise condo project in downtown Los Angeles offers the opportunity to buy a parking space for $20,000.

November 9 - The Los Angeles Times

Community development corporations have become too reliant on foundation grants and public dollars to provide affordable housing and jobs in our communities. But now that the era of giving is ending, we should consider the market as a way to support ourse

November 9 - Shelterforce Magazine

New Yorker contributor Ian Frazier offers a penetrating, writerly look at the city.

November 9 - The Christian Science Monitor

Pittsburgh, PA. invites architects, engineers, designers and others to participate in an international competition to design a pedestrian bridge.

November 8 - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Homeowners' attorney Scott Bullock talks about the Supreme Court's Kelo v. New London decision and America's brewing revolution against eminent domain.

November 8 - Reason Online

American Society of Landscape Architects appoints first woman fellow of the national organization.

November 8 - Arkansas Traveler

Is Los Angeles' new Metro Orange Line -- a dedicated busway -- a 'revolution' for the city? Running the width of the Valley, LA County Supervisor Zez Yaroslavsky calls the line a true innovation in American transit.

November 8 - The Metro Investment Report

Witold Rybczynski reviews Robert Bruegmann's new book, Sprawl: A Compact History.

November 8 - Slate

A year in the making, an independent academic conference about Wal-Mart provides unprecedented information about the company and offers mixed results.

November 8 - The New York Times

West Palm Beach City Commission selects new firm to revise the City's Downtown Master Plan, based on form driven code authored by Duany-Plater Zyberk in 1996, with new, guideline driven code.

November 8 - Palm Beach Post

Closed 11 years ago, Lowry Air Force Base holds lessons for the latest communities on the BRAC list.

November 8 - The Christian Science Monitor

E. Stewart Williams, an architect whose many works included a home for Frank Sinatra, was a pioneer of the "Desert Modern" style.

November 8 - Abhijeet Chavan

'Structural problems' with France's urban policies, wed with 'long-term neglect of the country's impoverished suburbs,' is being blamed for the gradually intensifying, and now international, riots.

November 8 - BBC

Technology and transportation experts meet in San Francisco for the Intelligent Transport Systems World Congress.

November 7 - The San Francisco Chronicle

China has hired a British engineering firm to design and build several self-sustaining cities.

November 7 - The Observer

Federated Department plans to consolidate Robinsons-May, leavinh Los Angeles without a major department store headquartered in the city for the first time in more than a century.

November 7 - Downtown News

Do planners really have the best interest of the city in mind? Harris Steinberg refutes an Op-Ed by Michael Sklaroff which congratulates planners on their success in the city.

November 7 - The Philadelphia Daily News

As land prices in Colorado mountain resorts spiral ever upward, real estate speculators are discovering old mining claims in nearby national forests are as good as gold.

November 7 - The Denver Post

Laguna Beach is the venue for a popular new MTV teen reality show. The community has been catapulted into national prominence, but perhaps not with the image it wants.

November 7 - The Los Angeles Times