The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Oil and chemical companies are buying entire adjacent neighborhoods to demolish them to prevent future complaints and lawsuits.

January 21 - The Houston Chronicle

A first-in-the-nation experiment in electricity pricing is demonstrating that consumers are willing to change how they use electricity -- and save money in the process.

January 21 - Chicago Sun-Times

Village Homes in Davis, CA, while not strictly adhering to New Urbanist principles, offers a highly liveable alternative to typical suburban development.

January 21 - Architecture Week

Arhitecture firm faces the challenge of designing a 'healthy house.'

January 21 - The Washington Post

Immigrant's design of a modular bedroom provides homeless with their own space.

January 21 - The Sacramento Bee

Twelve national groups sponsor a congressional briefing to rebut three myths undermining a balanced national housing policy in Washington.

January 20 - National Low Income Housing Coalition

The Supreme Court will rule on whether cities must pay for blocking expansion of wireless phone networks.

January 20 - The Los Angeles Times

Public transit use in greater Montreal has risen by 7.8% since 1998 according to new origin-destination survey.

January 20 - The Montreal Gazette

A push by developed nations could cut poverty in half within a generation, the UN says.

January 20 - The Christian Science Monitor

Threatened bald eagles make their home in the an unlikely urban wildlife refuge.

January 20 - The Washington Post

Los Angeles-based KB Home offers to brand the suburban community in ABC's popular soap opera, 'Desperate Housewives'.

January 20 - The Los Angeles Times

The network of bike paths and lanes around Orlando is growing funded in part by federal money for bike and pedestrian traffic.

January 20 - The Orlando Sentinel

“Pathetic” sums up a critic’s opinion of city planners’ goals for the redevelopment of Manhattan’s Hudson Yards.

January 20 - The New York Times

Projects will double the tax budget of one of the nation's poorest cities, but the jump in taxes is not a net gain.

January 20 - Miami Today

Miami developer Craig Robins' high-end Aqua community is a milestone forNew Urbanist precepts; for one thing, it's actually (almost) urban.

January 20 - The Slatin Report

D.C considered private funding option for major league baseball stadium.

January 19 - The Washington Post

The first 12 models of homes at Prairie Crossing represent the firstcommunity-scale demonstration project for the U.S. Department ofEnergy's Building America program.

January 19 - Terrain

Toronto's mayor shares his ideas on how to make the city a more beautiful place.

January 19 - The Toronto Star

What happens when a community puts up 'No Trespassing' signs on public open space?

January 19 - The Los Angeles Times

Photographs of one of the most densely populated metropolitan areas in the world.

January 19 - Michael Wolf Photographer