The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

A review of literature -– some scathing -– on the complexities of Orange County, California.

January 12 - Orange County Weekly

Sustainability planning may be precisely the wrong approach, argues Peter Gordon.

January 12 - University Of Southern California

Bipartisan flavor works in program’s favor

January 12 - Michigan Land Use Institute

Architects and planners are eager to help tsunami victims rebuild. But Western solutions are not always the best.

January 12 - The Guardian Unlimited

A small neighborhood school, or housing where teachers and other helping professionals can afford to live? Hard choices in suburban D.C.

January 12 - The Washington Post

The state moves 90 percent off welfare, but many remain in poverty.

January 12 - The Christian Science Monitor

BLOG POST

What happens in a city where the rule of law and public health fall apart, but capitalism and technology do not? It's a different kind of post-apocalyptic town -- Los Angeles without the Blade Runners, or maybe just present-day Johannesburg. <a href="http://www.nwc.navy.mil/press/Review/2003/Autumn/art6-a03.htm">Here's</a> an article from the <em>Naval War College Review</em> from a couple years back that sketches the map of such a city. All the problems of a megacity and none of the fun, it sounds like.

January 11 - Anonymous

Eugene, Oregon's Urban Growth Boundary might be more flexible than you think.

January 11 - Eugene Weekly

City planner Peter Park is making a name for himself and his profession.

January 11 - Denver Westword

While it is hard to imagine the 20th Century without the automobile, it is equally hard to imagine the 21st Century with it - at least as is. A look at what the international automobile industry is doing to clean up their products.

January 11 - OnEarth

How will a Tucson redevelopment project impact the city's public housing community?

January 11 - Tucson Weekly

Architects are contributing time and skills to help rebuild the thousands of homes that were destroyed by the South Asian tsunami.

January 11 - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

City bigwigs review the most successful planning efforts in Denver history.

January 11 - Denver Westword

Consumers are in "denial" about "land tanks" and continue to buy them in huge numbers in spite of the evidence that they are actually more dangerous to drive than standard cars.

January 11 - The San Francisco Chronicle

While Henry Ford chose to pay his workers enough to afford his cars, Wal Mart's market is in lower income shoppers and pays their workforce accordingly. How to keep growing? Create more poverty.

January 11 - The Nation

From muffler men to giant chickens, Indiana's landscape is full of gargantuan signage.

January 11 - Nuvo

Philadelphia's Mexican immigrant population isn't reporting rampant crime.

January 11 - Philadelphia Weekly

2004's top ten local issues in the central Texas region.

January 10 - The Austin Chronicle

Otis White offers his admittedly unscientific evaulation of the best urban journalists and newspapers in the U.S.

January 10 - Civic Strategies

Why won't anyone buy a Frank Lloyd Wright house?

January 10 - The Washington Post