The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

It's the latest hip trend in the entertainment world: carbon neutrality.

May 25 - The Guardian Unlimited

What happens to the original downtown after a Cleveland developer builds a New Urbanism-inspired suburban downtown?

May 25 - The Cleveland Plain Dealer

In a "full sacle reversal" Black Americans are leaving major cities and moving to the South.

May 25 - The Los Angeles Times

NPR's Anne Hawke reports on the problems faced by communities left with empty big boxes.

May 25 - National Public Radio

Insufficient funding has meant aging facilities, overgrown trails, and a decline in crucial staff members.

May 25 - The Christian Science Monitor

A research on new tools, from national programmes to local plans.

May 24 - Planum: European Journal Of Planning

Latinos are expected to be a majority of Los Angeles County residents by 2014 and of Californians by 2040.

May 24 - Hispanic Business

Virginia transportation officials recommend the state enter into negotiations with a private firm to build toll lanes on a 13-mile stretch of the capital beltway.

May 24 - The Washington Post

What happens when a developer tries to avoid local zoning by selling land to an Indian tribe? Could this be a new trend?

May 24 - The Slatin Report

Neal Peirce discusses how older cities can make make a comeback with "smarter state policy-making and a dose of ingenuity"

May 24 - The Washington Post Writers Group

After a generation of concern about tall buildings, the British have rediscovered the skyscraper -- for better or worse.

May 24 - Gabion

James Howard Kunstler nominates a prominent architect's latest project as the "Eyesore of the Month."

May 24 - James Howard Kunstler

Studies show that accessory apartments could provide very large numbers of affordable rental units in good neighborhoods, without subsidy or rent controls.

May 24 - Planetizen

William Rees argues that to avoid a possibly unprecedented human crisis in coming decades, people should be urging their governments to allow the price of oil and natural gas to rise even higher than they are now.

May 24 - Common Dreams

A whole generation of new, novice drivers in China is hitting the streets. They are called benbenzu, but nicknamed 'road killers.'

May 24 - The Los Angeles Times

FEATURE

May 24 - Patrick H. Hare

Land acquistion, site clean-up, codes, even NIMBYism make new development in existing neighborhoods difficult.

May 23 - Smart City

A new project maps greenways in the Chicago region.

May 23 - The Daily Telegraph

An initiative turns seniors into landlords.

May 23 - The Christian Science Monitor

Home owner who prefers to breeze-dry her laundry and a developer of multi-million dollar homes clash.

May 23 - Sun-Sentinel