The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Richard Carson writes about his planning agency -- the Clark County, Washington Community Development Department -- used performance audits to reinvent itself .

January 15 - Planning Magazine

Bush plans to reduce and cut crucial HUD programs.

January 15 - The Washington Post

Are skyscrapers back in favor with the public again?

January 15 - The Seattle Times

William Ruckelshaus and K.C. Golden argue that it is about time we started address the problem of global warming.

January 15 - The Seattle Times

Transportation emerges as a key issue as Turin, Italy, transform itself for the Winter Olympics.

January 15 - The New York Times

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In advance of a <a href="http://www.unisdr.org/wcdr/">conference</a> on natural disasters this week in Kobe, the United Nations is warning city-makers to...beware what lies beneath! Okay, so they're probably not flacking the kind of eldritch horrors that our friends in the Fantastic Four dealt with in their very first issue, but according to this <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4162799.stm">article</a> from the BBC they are concerned about concentrations of subterranean development in the same places that get hit with tsunamis and earthquakes.

January 14 - Anonymous

A recent study reveals the market potential of middle-income households in the nation's inner cities.

January 14 - MSNBC

Microsoft plans to add 2.2 million s.f. new office space on its Redmond campus over the next 20 years.

January 14 - The Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Does climate change have anything to do with the strange weather we have been experiecing lately?

January 14 - Democracy Now!

The "Downtown Brooklyn Plan" anticipates 4.5 million s.f. of new office space and up to 15 new towers in what is the city's third-largest business district.

January 14 - The Slatin Report

Scientists have concluded that the amount of sunlight reaching the earth's surface has been declining. Paradoxically, this could mean worsen the impact of global warming.

January 14 - BBC News

Historic Dublin is feeling pressure to increase density. Will Dubliners end up living in high-rise city center towers?

January 14 - The Irish Times

Across the nations, homeowners are battling developers' use of eminent domain.

January 14 - MotherJones.com

Los Angeles Mayoral candidate Robert Hertzberg offers a 'Commuters' Bill of Rights'.

January 14 - The Los Angeles Times

High-end "lifestyle centers" are appearing all over the country.

January 14 - CNN

Grist Magazine features a special series investigating the alleged 'Death of Environmentalism'.

January 14 - Grist Magazine

The countries now suffering from the effects of the recent tsunami are the very ones scientists say will bear the brunt of rising sea levels brought on by climate change.

January 13 - The Boston Globe

Is the hydrogen-powered Hummer a vision of the future or contempt for environmentalism?

January 13 - The Los Angeles Times

Mangrove forests -- coastal trees and shrubs -- saved hundreds by absorbing the impact of the tsunami.

January 13 - The Christian Science Monitor

Prince George's County officials put the brakes on unchecked residential growth.

January 13 - The Washington Post