The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

This Los Angeles Times editorial endorses Assembly Bill 2838 by Speaker Bob Hertzberg, D-Sherman Oaks, which would reform the process by which local governments alter boundaries and authorize municipal services.

October 2 - The Los Angeles Times

In this L.A. Times opinion article, Jan Breidenbach, executive director of the Southern California Assn. of Nonprofit Housing, and Peter Dreier, Professor of Politics and Public Policy atOccidental College, highlight the plight of low-income families.

October 2 - The Los Angeles Times

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has identified the thirteen US cities most at risk of overbuilding.

October 2 - Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Presidential candidates' position statements on the Federal role in dealing with sprawl.

October 2 - Planners Web

Team of journalists visited 11 hot spots around the world to document the consequences of climate change and what they found was startling.

October 2 - E-The Environmental Magazine

Congress agreed on a bill that will provide $1.6 billion in 2001 and $2.4 billion by 2006 for conservation. This is the largest increase ever.

October 1 - The Los Angeles Times

Three creeks in Santa Barbara flush naturally during the rainy season. The city breached the creeks in the summer. No more. And now it smells.

October 1 - The Los Angeles Times

After decades of controversy, lawsuits and threats, housing developments along Orange County's prime coastal areas are now moving forward.

October 1 - The Los Angeles Times

Peter Katz, author of The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community, takes a look at what new urbanism might look like in the future.

October 1 - Urban Land Magazine

This story is an adaptation of CNN's special urban planning report, "Where We Live," which will air Sunday, October 1 at 10 p.m. EDT.

October 1 - CNN

Now there is a place where San Francisco residents can complain about how lousy their cab service is.

October 1 - Wall St. Journal

When a proven developer approached the downtrodden City of Niagara Falls with an impressive proposal, city leaders sent him packing.

October 1 - The Buffalo News

One of every 10 free-standing single-family homes in the US is in California; one of every 100 in the world. This is a California tale from Sonoma.

September 30 - The Los Angeles Times

Infrasonic sound can cause structures to vibrate, resulting in uneasiness for people who work inside them.

September 30 - Sound Advice

With their new 'general store' concept, drugstore chains are expanding rapidly in inner-city communities.

September 30 - Urban Land Magazine

Denver's red-hot housing market is showing sudden and dramatic signs of slowing.

September 30 - The Denver Post

A new agency dealing with sprawl and congestion may go before voters in 2002.

September 29 - The San Diego Union-Tribune

In efforts to accommodate growth with population expected todouble over the next 20 years, local transportation officials andconsultants in Riverside County propose a fast moving shuttle system moving through densely populated communities.

September 29 - Press-Enterprise

In this San Diego Union-Tribune column, Richard Louv writesabout the need for a regional "civic entity" to provide leadership forSan Diego as it faces the prospect of accommodating 1 million newresidents.

September 29 - The San Diego Union-Tribune

Some say that this civic vision plan is the most responsible planning effort that's ever come out of Boston, and it could change the city forever.

September 29 - The Boston Globe