The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

A coalition will pool resources to buy and renovate dilapidated HUD properties, and resell them to low-income buyers.

January 10 - The Los Angeles Times

A PG&E proposal to auction its hydroelectric assets could bring about a new land rush in the Sierra Nevada.

January 10 - California Planning and Development Report

Why flexible rules and reasonable regulators are a builder’s worst nightmare.

January 10 - Reason Online

Many baseball stadiums help bolster sagging downtowns -- but only when they're built as part of a larger revitalization effort, economists say.

January 10 - The Miami Herald

The proposed plan would give more power to local government, but critics declare the plan vague.

January 10 - The Tampa Tribune

The Public Purpose publishes updated statistics and suggests that doubling US public transit ridership is an impossible task.

January 10 - The Public Purpose

Is a superefficient and clean sport-utility vehicle possible?

January 9 - Wall St. Journal

The Twin Cities' transit hubs draw retail and hosing development.

January 9 - BizJournals

If there is an economic slowdown, nobody told Pasadena. A building boom is ongoing there, with no end in sight.

January 9 - The Los Angeles Times

Companies are rushing to downtown Chicago and driving down vacancy rates to lowest in 20 years.

January 9 - Chicago Sun-Times

The Urban Land Institute's smart growth toolkit shows best practices for success.

January 9 - Urban Land Institute

California has only 15 more years to receive Colorado River water surplus. Where to get water then is the issue.

January 9 - The Los Angeles Times

A review of the work of architect Morris Lapidus.

January 9 - MetropolisMag.com

The long and twisting road to getting signs installed in a city with 22 million visitors a year.

January 9 - The Washington Post

A New York Times editorial discusses President Clinton's plan to ban road-building and logging in nearly one-third of the nation's forest land.

January 9 - The New York Times

A review of some of the good and bad developments in architecture and planning for the Washington D.C. region.

January 9 - The Washington Post

What would happen if Los Angeles took a lesson from New York City and developed a federation of boroughs? Would it work?

January 8 - The Los Angeles Times

NewsHour with Jim Lehrer has created a website featuring detailed interviews and images about new urbanism.

January 8 - PBS

Anthony Downs argues that there is no way to reduce peak-hour traffic congestion that Americans will accept.

January 8 - The Brookings Institution

The Lone Mountain Compact: Principles for preserving freedom and livabilityin America's cities and suburbs.

January 8 - Policy Experts