The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

'Sometimes the best incentive you can give is to get out of the way.' -- Con Howe, Los Angeles Planning director, reflecting on his strategy for spurring more housing Downtown.

January 17 - Los Angeles Downtown News

More high rise construction is planned in the heart of a quintessential college town.

January 16 - Athens Banner-Herald

Toxic spills by Mexico's oil company, Pemex have turned a coastal area into 'one of the most contaminated regions in the world.'

January 16 - The Los Angeles Times

Former EPA administrator Christie Whitman's forthcoming book assails GOP's rightward lurch.

January 16 - Grist Magazine

San Diego's regional planning and transportation agencies are studing the impacts of border wait times on the economy of the San Diego and Baja California border regions.

January 16 - The San Diego Union-Tribune

Milwaukee aims to attract more Chicago passengers.

January 16 - The Chicago Tribune

Richard Carson writes about his planning agency -- the Clark County, Washington Community Development Department -- used performance audits to reinvent itself .

January 15 - Planning Magazine

Bush plans to reduce and cut crucial HUD programs.

January 15 - The Washington Post

Are skyscrapers back in favor with the public again?

January 15 - The Seattle Times

William Ruckelshaus and K.C. Golden argue that it is about time we started address the problem of global warming.

January 15 - The Seattle Times

Transportation emerges as a key issue as Turin, Italy, transform itself for the Winter Olympics.

January 15 - The New York Times

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In advance of a <a href="http://www.unisdr.org/wcdr/">conference</a> on natural disasters this week in Kobe, the United Nations is warning city-makers to...beware what lies beneath! Okay, so they're probably not flacking the kind of eldritch horrors that our friends in the Fantastic Four dealt with in their very first issue, but according to this <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4162799.stm">article</a> from the BBC they are concerned about concentrations of subterranean development in the same places that get hit with tsunamis and earthquakes.

January 14 - Anonymous

A recent study reveals the market potential of middle-income households in the nation's inner cities.

January 14 - MSNBC

Microsoft plans to add 2.2 million s.f. new office space on its Redmond campus over the next 20 years.

January 14 - The Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Does climate change have anything to do with the strange weather we have been experiecing lately?

January 14 - Democracy Now!

The "Downtown Brooklyn Plan" anticipates 4.5 million s.f. of new office space and up to 15 new towers in what is the city's third-largest business district.

January 14 - The Slatin Report

Scientists have concluded that the amount of sunlight reaching the earth's surface has been declining. Paradoxically, this could mean worsen the impact of global warming.

January 14 - BBC News

Historic Dublin is feeling pressure to increase density. Will Dubliners end up living in high-rise city center towers?

January 14 - The Irish Times

Across the nations, homeowners are battling developers' use of eminent domain.

January 14 - MotherJones.com

Los Angeles Mayoral candidate Robert Hertzberg offers a 'Commuters' Bill of Rights'.

January 14 - The Los Angeles Times