The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

A stream of letters reminds property owners, 'Do you know that your property is worth more than its current use?'

February 25 - The Seattle Stranger

For over four years, longtime residents of Baltimore's Middle East neighborhood have been threatened with eviction in the name of high-tech business development.

February 25 - Baltimore City Paper

Dilbert considers buying a fuel efficient car.

February 24 - Dilbert

A GIS analyst who worked for the Indiana office of the U.S. Department of Agriculture is charged with selling 41 pirated copies of ESRI's mapping software on eBay.

February 24 - Jackson County Tribune

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. warns of the dire impact of weakening the Clean Water Act.

February 24 - Huffington Post via Yahoo News

Architectural Record interviews John Beckman, principal with Wallace Roberts & Todd, and prominent planner for the Bring Back New Orleans Commission.

February 24 - Architectural Record

Boston Globe editorial supports protection for upstream wetlands.

February 24 - The Boston Globe

Typically a strong advocate for property rights, the Wall Street Journal offers their opinion that the recent rejection of Oregon's growth boundary "offers the nation a model for reform."

February 24 - The Wall Street Journal

There's a thin line between critical revitalization and excessive gentrification.

February 24 - Philadelphia City Paper

Could forced relocation to safer ground improve the city's communities, or will its costs disproportionately impact the poor?

February 24 - The San Diego Union-Tribune

Planners look to connect the nation's third largest park system through a vast array of greenways.

February 24 - The Miami Herald

Austin Energy is using new technology to monitor energy use more carefully, in the hopes of developing a 'smart energy network'.

February 24 - The Austin Chronicle

A challenge to the Clean Water Act currently before the Supreme Court could endanger the nation's streams.

February 23 - San Jose Mercury News

The Florida Department of Community Affairs recommends that Miami-Dade County reject all development projects on the county's fringes until the county identifies sufficient drinking water.

February 23 - The Miami Herald

China announces new rules aimed at enforcing environmental protection.

February 23 - The Los Angeles Times

To architect Cameron Sinclair, the bigger the problem, the more ways there must be to solve it. His goal is to find low-cost solutions that inspire.

February 23 - The Christian Science Monitor

President Bush's visit to a major renewable energy laboratory inadvertently uncovered inconsistencies between his State of the Union address supporting alternate energy and actual federal funding for such efforts.

February 23 - The Los Angeles Times

Will Oregon's famously tough urban-growth boundaries be breached? It appears so, as Oregon's sweeping property-right law is upheld by the state's Supreme Court.

February 23 - The Oregonian

Recent studies have called into question the popular crime-fighting technique, suggesting that larger urban trends have a greater impact.

February 23 - The Boston Globe

In downtown Ann Arbor, dense high rise development has traditionally been thought of negatively. However, a recent shift in political will has the City approving projects that will add greater density and housing to its commercial core.

February 23 - Ann Arbor News