The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

A new workbook developed by the Housing Assistance Council can help nonprofit housing groups improve their chances for grant funding.

January 18 - Housing Assistance Council

A review of the book "How Cities Work: Suburbs, Sprawl, and the Roads Not Taken" by Alex Marshall.

January 18 - MetropolisMag.com

The American Planning Association publishes its biweekly update on legislative and public policy issues.

January 18 - American Planning Association

California has a baffling maze of localgovernments -- 58 counties, 473 cities, 1,000 school districts and 4,800 special districts.

January 18 - Alliance For Redesigning Government

This survey compares the market niches of 14 top high tech metro areas.

January 17 - The Brookings Institution

The radical Earth Liberation Front is evidently using arson to oppose sprawl.

January 17 - The Washington Post

We've all heard about naming rights for sports, even skyscrapers. So why not subways?

January 17 - USA Today

As more and more Americans fly every year, the nation's airports are feeling the pinch.

January 17 - Wall St. Journal

While many cities have turned to corporate America to revitalize Main Street, the city of Tustin is looking to mom-and-pop's to help rebuild its downtown.

January 17 - Orange County Register

As one of his final acts as President, Clinton creates 6 additional national monuments. One is in central California.

January 17 - The Los Angeles Times

The dot-com invasion is causing housing prices to soar in Santa Cruz, CA.

January 17 - San Jose Mercury News

After two decades of study and contention, the Twin Cities are gettinglight rail.

January 17 - Star Tribune

What is it like to live in a house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright? And how much does a Wright house cost today?

January 17 - Chicago Sun-Times

Urban adventurers are exploring forbidden buildings, abandoned subway tunnels, and other forgotten modern ruins, and using the Internet to chronicle their written and photographic records of historical places about to be lost forever.

January 17 - Salon

Because of decades of urban sprawl, a place most people consider a lush tropical paradise actually ranks among the least shady landscapes in the nation.

January 17 - The Miami Herald

Atlanta's Downtown Connector expressway splits the city and divides residential neighborhoods. Now the city is looking at ways to stitch the city back together.

January 16 - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

The Supreme Court rules that an abandoned gravel pit isn't navigable water.

January 16 - Wall St. Journal

Learn the 6 "P's" of parks promotion -- people, positioning, price, place, promotion, and planning.

January 16 - Urban Parks Online

One of the nation's largest public-private redevelopment projects can be found outside the "happiest place on earth".

January 16 - Planning Magazine

Residents fear that Yucca Mountain, in western Nevada, will become the burial ground for nuclear waste.

January 16 - The Los Angeles Times