The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Mark Alan Hughes asks who has the power to decide on rebuilding plans for New Orleans: former or returning residents, federal policymakers, local officials, or all taxpayers?

September 20 - The Philadelphia Daily News

With high-speed internet access becoming a necessity, rural Arizona lawmakers are searching for ways to bring broadband to rural towns.

September 20 - The Arizona Republic

The acclaimed architect is the subject of Academy-award winning director Sydney Pollack's new documentary.

September 20 - Brenda Meyer

A Senate committee requests information from the Justice Department about legal challenges to New Orleans levee projects by environmental groups. Do Republicans plan to blame environmentalists for the extent of destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina?

September 20 - The Washington Post

FEATURE

Can a campus community become a "green" model for society as a whole? Educators, students, and professionals meet at an interdisciplinary conference to promote sustainability in education, research, operations and affiliated service organizations.

September 20 - R. Umashankar

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