The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Joel Kotkin offers an analysis of which cities will be most damaged by the recession, and which cities will come through unscathed.

January 22 - REIS

D.C. officials are interested in a revival of the streetcar to tackle transportation problems.

January 21 - The Washington Post

With 4,000 new housing units needed yearly to meet the demand, the $100 million trust fund is hailed for Los Angeles.

January 21 - The Los Angeles Times

When the interstate came to Texas' rural Comal County, it was suddenly in communting distance of San Antonio, San Marcos and Austin.

January 21 - The Houston Chronicle

Is urban planner Omar Akbar trying to poison the historical memory of the most important design movement of the 20th century?

January 21 - Indiana Daily Student

Will the new 640,000-square-foot retail complex in Hollywood, CA, become a tourist destination?

January 21 - The New York Times

Charleston, for years rated one of America's best-mannered cities, has a new court to ensure it.

January 21 - CNN

A coalition of architecture, planning, and design organizations has prepared a report describing seven principles for rebuilding Lower Manhattan.

January 21 - New York New Visions

Dan Garcia, who has served on nearly every significant commission in Los Angeles, offers his vision for planning in L.A.

January 21 - The Planning Report

Efforts to control growth in South Barrington -- a Chicago suburb --become expensive as lawsuits mount.

January 21 - Daily Herald

Katherine M. Lapp is appointed the new executive director of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

January 21 - Metro Magazine

State and local politics complicate decisions about much-needed airport expansion in the Chicago.

January 20 - Planning Magazine

Eugene planners develop a plan to revitalize an unsuccessful pedestrian mall.

January 20 - Eugene Register-Guard

Opening arguments are made in a suit challenging state goals for the inland Southern California region.

January 20 - Press-Enterprise

A planning coalition offers suggestion for reshaping downtown New York.

January 20 - The New York Times

Former Virginia Gov. Douglas Wilder's plan to build a national slavery museum is facing issues of siting and commercialization.

January 20 - Washington City Paper

The Iowa Chapter of the American Planning Association recently cosponsored a "box city festival" in Cedar Rapids where children participated in the development of a city, including obtaining necessary permits for construction.

January 19 - Iowa Chapter American Planning Association

Transportation planners across the U.S. are replacing stop signs with roundabouts designed to slow drivers. The impact is precisely the opposite.

January 19 - Wall St. Journal

Many of the challenges that urban infill housing presents are myths

January 19 - Urban Land Magazine

Proposed ordinances in San Francisco are a result of the city's "growing impatience" with people living in the streets.

January 19 - The New York Times