The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

The new study says that L.A.'s underserved areas need parks the most, preferably within one mile of homes, although more parks alone may not be enough to promote adequate levels of exercise.

February 4 - The Los Angeles Times

The son of Hitler's architect has been hired to design the 300,000-person 'Detroit of the East' in Changchun.

February 4 - Spiegel Online

President Bush said that new technology will cure the nation's oil addiction. Technology is already here; the will to use it is missing.

February 3 - The Los Angeles Times

As thousands of visiting Super Bowl fans converge on downtown Detroit, city officials are going to great lenghts to cover up the city's blight.

February 3 - The Los Angeles Times

Report concludes that the world's poorest countries are most vulnerable to the impact of greenhouse gases.

February 3 - Abhijeet Chavan

It may turn out that the first line of defense for coastal cities isn't the levee in your backyard, but that marsh in your backyard that the city built on top of.

February 3 - BBC

Boston's Violence-Free Zone Initiative will put hundreds of children and families in parks in an effort to flush out recent violence.

February 3 - The Boston Globe

A host of international factors could have prices rising to $262 a barrel.

February 3 - CNNMoney.com

Only one day after President Bush used the State of the Union address to promote alternative energy sources, his energy secretary and national economic adviser are backing away from the comments, saying, 'the president didn't mean it literally.'

February 3 - Knight-Ridder Washington Bureau

The state Public Utilities Commission creates the California Solar Initiative, but does it have enough power to popularize the alternative energy course?

February 3 - LA Weekly

Advanced archaeological technology is shedding new light on what motivated the prolific builders of early America in southwestern Colorado.

February 3 - Denver Westword

Dallas becomes the largest metro area in the U.S. to adopt the 'verified response' to business burglar alarms, meaning that local police will not respond unless business security guards tell them to.

February 3 - The Dallas Observer

Armed with 14,000 signatures, a community group petitions to restrict city's eminent domain authority to a 'strictly defined public use'.

February 2 - San Diego Union Tribune

Hosted by Carol Coletta, the popular Smart City radio show enters its fifth year.

February 2 - Commercial Appeal

Researchers around the world debate when it will be too late to reverse the impact of global warming.

February 2 - The Washington Post

Facing a doubling of passengers at the aging and space-constrained LAX, new Mayor Villaraigosa outlines plans to focus international flights at LAX, and push domestic flights to other regional airports.

February 2 - The Los Angeles Times

In advance of President George W. Bush's State of the Union address, William Rivers Pitt looks at widespread poverty and the ruins of New Orleans to state, "the state of this union is not good."

February 2 - Truthout

In an eight-part series, Gannett compiles three months of analysis to expose the serious problems of unchecked growth along the country's shores, along with a host of counterproductive public policies.

February 2 - Gannett News Service

How the tenants movement of the 1970s and 1980s evolved into the housing and community development movement of today.

February 2 - Shelterforce Magazine

The nation's largest urban park needs some sprucing up, and Melendrez landscape architects has recently submitted its draft master plan.

February 2 - The Planning Report