The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

The council names the top 10 tall building projects completed during 2005. Only one (Bloomberg Tower in New York) of the top 10 is in the US.

March 17 - The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat Studies

Parking requirements can overwhelm a housing development, particularly an affordable one. Design Advisor offers several design ideas to help reduce the impact of parking on development and your residents. [Includes photos and examples.]

March 17 - Affordable Housing Design Advisor

The redevelopment of Houston from four perspectives: the developer, the artist, the power broker, and the former mayor.

March 17 - Governing Magazine

Los Angeles' downtown lofts used to be low-rent, bohemian spaces. A lot more than the rent has changed. Now there are "demi-lofts and soft lofts, new-construction lofts, condo lofts and townhouse lofts."

March 17 - Los Angeles Times, West Magazine

NorthWest Crossing employs design principles such as a grid of interconnected narrow streets, a mix of architectural styles, and shops, pocket parks, and schools within walking distance of most homes.

March 17 - Terrain.org - A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments

Who will succeed Gale Norton as head of the Interior Department? Grist Magazine speculates.

March 17 - Grist Magazine

The New York Times reviews a new book whose author traveled around the world interviewing people about the effects of global warming.

March 17 - The New York Times

Population loss continues for Cleveland and its inner-ring suburbs.

March 17 - The Cleveland Plain Dealer

As the Fort Worth Dallas Region anticipates the addition of four million people in the next 25 years, the region's transportation planners take a multimodal approach to planning needed improvements.

March 17 - Fort Worth Star Telegram

"Soft-core urbanism" and gentrification are changing Atlanta's demographics and local politics.

March 16 - The New York Times

Music giant EMI may sell the famous Capital Records building in Hollywood to a housing developer. Converting landmark corporate buildings to housing has become a trend in Southern California.

March 16 - The Los Angeles Times

The administration espouses a 'Housing First' approach, yet cities lack the resources necessary for implementation.

March 16 - Seattle Weekly

No, according to an op-ed in the San Francisco Bay Guardian, which lists alternative strategies for preserving affordable housing.

March 16 - The San Francisco Bay Guardian

Hundreds of children are growing up in an area Police Chief Bratton refers to as the biggest social disaster in America.

March 16 - LA Weekly

Planners hope that Detroit's Airport City will take off, lifting the fate of Detroit, and even Michigan, with it.

March 16 - Detroit Metro Times

Although the future Washington Nationals' stadium successfully breaks from the retro design trend in stadium architecture, it ultimately disappoints, according to critic Benjamin Forgey.

March 16 - The Washington Post

In his annual state of the city address, Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick looks to build on the success of last summer's MLB All-Star Game, Superbowl XL, and the recent boom in downtown housing starts.

March 16 - The Detroit Free Press

There has been little to equal the speed and extent of the development of the Chinese city of Chongqing, which is growing so rapidly, a population equivalent to that of Luxembourg is added each year.

March 16 - The Guardian Unlimited

Downtown locations for many of the social service and training opportunities immigrants need may no longer make sense in rapidly-growing cities such as Calgary.

March 16 - The Globe and Mail

Cities and counties across California have struggled to find money for reinforcing bridges to protect them during earthquakes.

March 15 - Abhijeet Chavan