The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Lifestyle centers, like shopping malls of the past, are contributing to the decline of city centers across the country.

October 26 - AIA Oregon Architect Newsletter

Is there any evidence to suggest the turning the Gulf Coast into one huge, tax-sheltered enterprise zone will help businesses?

October 26 - The Los Angeles Times

An interview with architect Daniel Libeskind, master-plan designer for the new World Trade Center site.

October 26 - Forbes

'A Crack in the Edge of the World' by Simon Winchester, has a few nuggets of interest, but is 'filled with enough geological minutiae to fell James Michener.'

October 26 - The Christian Science Monitor

Davis, CA apartment complex creates a winning combination of style, function, and eco-awareness.

October 25 - Abhijeet Chavan

Residents in a suburb north of Melbourne are still waiting for a promised transit extension.

October 25 - The Age

Will cable and satellite TV make the massive Cesar Pelli-designed HDTV tower proposed for Chicago's Gold Coast a white elephant? Lynn Becker critiques the Beitler Tower proposal.

October 25 - Repeat

Calling it an 'Emerlad Necklace', Atlanta plsnd to create an innovative 22-mile loop from an abandoned railroad into parks and transit that connect historic neighborhoods across the city.

October 25 - The Los Angeles Times

The principal spokesman for Maryland’s high-profile Smart Growth Initiative analyzes the program's strenghts and weaknesses and offers strategies for similar statewide, incentive-based programs.

October 25 - Vermont Journal of Environmental Law

Heritage at Millennium Park, the latest skyscraper to grace Chicago's already dense skyline, is already garnering a lot of attention.

October 25 - The Chicago Tribune

Some states ease laws to allow traditional neighborhood development.

October 25 - Michigan Land Use Institute

For escape from high-rises, it's high tech to the rescue. An 'executive chute' is one of many innovations on the market. Some doubt if 'last-resort' systems work.

October 25 - The Christian Science Monitor

In the Northeast, where land costs are high and expectations are high, the most cost-effective way to build is to build up.

October 25 - The Boston Globe

The LA Times investigates the shady side of Regency Outdoor Advertising, a Hollywood-based billboard company. Among the charges are bribery, smear campaigns, building without permits, intimidation and poisoning trees.

October 25 - The Los Angeles Times

Congested Van Ness Ave. in San Francisco, CA, is actually US Highway 101. Many bus lines use the business-lined avenue, but they are impacted by the congestion along the wide corridor. The proposed BRT project has many of the business-owners wary of prop

October 24 - San Francisco Examiner

Once a small seaside city most Americans know only from its namesake movie, Casablanca is now Morocco's biggest city and a sprawling metropolis.

October 24 - International Herald Tribune

The first segment of an 18-mile multi-use trail opens in Benton, Maine.

October 24 - Portland Press Herald

Is Vancouver's housing bubble and density destroying what made the city so livable?

October 24 - The Seattle Times

How New Orleans recovers from Hurricane Katrina will depend on who is returning back to the city.

October 24 - The Washington Post

Despite being considered the poster child for sprawl, Los Angeles is not a particularly good example of sprawl, and by several measures is the densest place in the U.S.

October 24 - The Los Angeles Times