The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

A study by the United States Environmental Protection Agency rates water quality in U.S watersheds.

January 7 - The New York Times

A report by Dallas urban planner Antonio Di Mambro sets the agenda for an endorsement of the city's next mayor.

January 7 - Dallas News

New Jersey Transit hired top industrial designer Cesar Vergara to transform locomotives, buses, passenger cars, signs, schedules, and transit villages in an ambitious effort to rival mass transit in Europe.

January 7 - The New York Times

In an effort to attract a new Nissan factory, Mississippi severely abused its eminent domain powers.

January 7 - Wall St. Journal

Mass transit systems in New York are suffering after the Sept. 11 attacks.

January 7 - The New York Times

A columnist argues that planners should not try to use San Francisco's BART to fix regional transportation woes.

January 7 - The San Francisco Chronicle

A local mayor in Texas ramrods his beachfront home development, despite state concerns over who owns the property.

January 6 - The Houston Chronicle

A five-year pilot habitat restoration project in California may become the model for new land retirement programs.

January 6 - The Fresno Bee

Joe Sharkey points out examples of "smart" transportation planning in the U.S. and how airport-train links are beginning to resemble those in Europe.

January 6 - The New York Times

Wal-Mart's plan to build a megastore in a historic neighborhood is facing opposition from historic preservationists.

January 6 - The New York Times

Los Angeles officials claim that billboard company violated their contract. Judge halts their work until hearing.

January 5 - The Los Angeles Times

The wealthy homeowners in Malibu have locked the public easements to the beach, and public agencies are doing nothing.

January 5 - The Los Angeles Times

A lawsuit alleges that McHenry County, Illinois imposed illegal school impact fees on homebuilders for over ten years.

January 5 - Crain's Chicago Business

Homelessness is on the rise across the nation but it hits harder in Minnesota, where winter temperatures can fall far below zero.

January 5 - The New York Times

New residents of fast-growing Auburn Township fight to slow growth.

January 5 - Cleveland Live

New York City officials said that tall skyscrapers at the site of the World Trade Center are not "economically practical" and preferred a victims' memorial and smaller structures.

January 5 - Sun-Sentinel

Is Detroit's sour attitude to public transportation finally ending? It looks that way in the city that invented mass production of private vehicles and ardently pursued the nation's sprawling development patterns.

January 4 - Michigan Land Use Institute

To avoid turning into bedroom community, Hartford, WI, embraces New Urbanism.

January 4 - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Los Angeles county and city officials say a major billboard company has violated ordinances by installing billboards along freeways.

January 4 - The San Diego Union-Tribune

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service prepares a proposal to rehabilitate a 16-mile stretch of the Santa Clara River that supports threatnened species.

January 4 - The San Diego Union-Tribune