The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

The world is swimming in crude, but it's getting costlier to extract, and demand is rising fast. Is it the end of the line for cheap oil? CSM offers a three-part series.

September 20 - The Christian Science Monitor

Protecting the city from future hurricanes and flooding will take decades and cost billions.

September 20 - CNN

An opinion columnist argues that smart growth techniques will only hurt Sydney in the long run, turning it into a 'rat's nest.'

September 20 - The Sydney Morning Herald

Best-laid growth plans often just gather dust. A look at why plans for local transportation and growth management in Idaho's Treasure Valley never materialized.

September 19 - The Idaho Statesman

Well-off and living on higher ground, many of New Orleans' white residents are counting on their city to be rebuilt without much of the former black population returning.

September 19 - The Globe and Mail

A nearly century old plan with ample open space and clusters of academic buildings enlightens the campus plan for a new century.

September 19 - On Wisconsin

The preservation of urban wall art is stirring controversy in the city and around the country.

September 19 - The Christian Science Monitor

According to several sources, Los Angeles is one earthquake away from becoming a new New Orleans -- and they warn that local preparedness is imperative.

September 19 - LA Weekly

As land becomes more scarce and traffic gets progressively worse, Southern California's transit planners begin to look seriously at underground highways.

September 19 - The Los Angeles Times

Timothy Lange calls for an effort to rebuild New Orleans into an eco-friendly city that could be model for the nation.

September 19 - Grist Magazine

Led by the revolutionary Georgia Resource Center, Atlanta is the city to beat for luring new businesses -- a feat that Milwaukee hopes to best.

September 19 - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

'Shadow Cities,' a book by Robert Neuwirth. explores the world of illegal urban squatters in some of the world's largest megacities.

September 19 - Hawaii Reporter

E-Podunk uses 40,000 Internet postings by Katrina survivors to create a compelling map showing the exodus of Gulf Coast refugees across the United States.

September 19 - E-Podunk

Traffic may be horrible in Los Angeles, but for many, it still beats the alternative of public transportation.

September 18 - The Los Angeles Times

An editorial lists all of the ways that the Australian government failed in not implementing the strategy in two Sydney neighborhoods.

September 18 - The Sydney Morning Herald

In order to preserve its working waterfront, the City of Portland, ME, must balance the pressures of urban redevelopment in the city's thriving Old Port district with the needs of the fishermen who have worked there for centuries.

September 18 - Portland Press Herald

The small schools and Smart Growth movements are now working to change the rules and habits that contribute to school sprawl.

September 18 - Michigan Land Use Institute

Beyond fiscal year 2009, the future of the surface transportation program appears murky.

September 18 - Innovation Briefs

Reed Kroloff, the head of Tulane's architecture program talks about rebuilding the Big Easy, and how to preserve the city's 'fine grain'.

September 17 - National Public Radio

Three long-lost buildings from Frank Lloyd Wright's Darwin Martin House are being rebuilt brick by brick.

September 17 - The Buffalo News