The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

The Poverty and Race Research Action Council uses relief efforts for the 1994 Los Angeles earthquake as a model for HUD action along the Gulf Coast.

September 14 - Poverty and Race Research Action Council

Major data providers are compiling lists of deals connected to properties in the 90,000 square miles ravaged by Katrina.

September 14 - The Slatin Report

Report finds that HOPE VI funds can attract new investment into places where the market was previously absent, creating more viable economically-integrated neighborhoods with access to jobs and services.

September 13 - The Brookings Institution - Metropolitan Policy Program

One of Tokyo's most famous examples of 'pod living' is on the chopping block for demolition.

September 13 - The Independent

Hurricane Katrina devastated historic districts, properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and numerous other historicall important buildings.

September 13 - The New York Times

Electronics companies urge Congress to adopt a uniform policy on electronic waste and recycling.

September 13 - CNET News

American love to live on the coast and they won't let nature stop them.

September 13 - The Washington Post

Mark Alan Hughes predicts some of NOLA's poor will be better off in a couple years as a result of forced relocation to more prosperous places.

September 13 - The Philadelphia Daily News

Retailers shape stores to fit urban settings.

September 13 - Michigan Land Use Institute

The award-winning, 28-acre Glenwood Park is a brownfield redevelopment in an infill location that features a mix of well-designed homes and commercial spaces, including a mixed-use "town center."

September 13 - Terrain

Researcher say that the overweight "tend to gravitate" to neighborhoods that are unsuitable for walking.

September 13 - AP

Thousands of New Orleans businesses and residents have relocated to the 'New Baton Rouge', 75 miles to the northwest.

September 13 - USA Today

Could this region with more than a thousand miles of deteriorating levees protecting cities and farmland be the next Katrina-like disaster in the making?

September 12 - The New York Times

Can New Orleans be rebuilt neighborhood by neighborhood based on their historic building types, wonders architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne.

September 12 - The Los Angeles Times

BLOG POST

Joel Garreau weighed in yesterday on whether New Orleans should (or can) be rebuilt. He's always smart and readable; if you haven't read <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385262493/qid=1126558443/sr=8-2/ref=pd_bbs_2/002-4208330-1388856?v=glance&s=books&n=507846"><em>Edge City</em></a> you should go get it. It's a brilliant, well-reported take on urban theory and how cities are changing. Anyway, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/09/AR2005090902448_pf.html">here</a>

September 12 - Anonymous

Flooded areas are saturated with oil, heavy metals and toxic waste.

September 12 - Salon.com

Some nimble private companies -- like Wal-Mart and The Sun Herald -- have contingency plans in place for a hurricane.

September 12 - The Miami Herald

As Montreal's Metro pushes 40 years of age, a series of articles document the past and future changes.

September 12 - The Montreal Gazette

In just 14 days, the hurricane caused the largest dislocation the US has seen in 150 years.

September 12 - The Christian Science Monitor

In the aftermath of 9-11 and Hurricane Katrina, the U.S. has to face the realities of today. But three factors prevent us from planning for the unthinkable.

September 12 - The San Francisco Chronicle