The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

A mountain valley known for its bucolic lifestyle is about to become the largest winter resort community in the Sierra Nevada.

October 18 - The Los Angeles Times

The growing efforts to revitalize downtown Phoenix with a new ASU campus, light rail, and Civic Plaza expansion is now without its challenges.

October 17 - The Arizona Republic

A six year drought uncovers a town from 1865 that has been underwater since it was flooded. Similar finds are occurring across the U.S.

October 17 - The Los Angeles Times

A program for older home owners is a win-win arragement.

October 17 - Buckeye Institute

Photographs and a review of architect Frank Gehry's new Stata Center for MIT.

October 17 - City Of Sound

Can Mobile, AL make a successful transition from an industrial harbor, to a tourist destination?

October 17 - Mobile Register

Richard Muller argues that poor math undermines evidence linking global warming to human activity.

October 16 - Technology Review

Fifteen years after Loma Prieta, the Chronicle describes how a devastating earthquake forced squabbling Santa Cruz factions to come together to save downtown.

October 16 - The San Francisco Chronicle

Neal Peirce on the communication gaps that undermine the security of America's cities.

October 16 - The Washington Post Writers Group

The New York Times reports that Segway is increasingly popular with people who are mobility-impaired.

October 16 - The New York Times

2004 has seen the lowest ozone levels in over 30 years, according to Joel Schwartz.

October 16 - Tech Central Station

Author Wendell Berry mourns the stripping of rural America for its resources, and the gutting of its cities through perverse incentives, thoughtless subsidies, regulatory malfeasance and other "economic weapons of mass destruction."

October 15 - Orion Online

A new film explores the impact a decline in oil supplies will have on the 'American Dream' and the suburban lifestyle.

October 15 - End Of Suburbia

Amphibian populations around the world are in rapid decline. This is bad news for us humans.

October 15 - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Finland leads the list of the World Economic Forum's most competitive economy in the world. The U.S. is number two.

October 15 - BBC News

The Bush administration supports a controversial drilling technique that favors Halliburton, Dick Cheney's former employer, even as some complain that the practice puts drinking water at risk.

October 15 - KTLA

An 1800s-style gas station design will become a blueprint for future gas station designs in Mandeville, Louisiana.

October 15 - The Times-Picayune

Viewers will be asked to identify Britain's worst building and it will be demolished live on television in a new architecture-themed reality show.

October 15 - The Guardian Unlimited

The new "Green Communities Initiative" will help produce environmentally friendly and affordable homes around the United States.

October 15 - The American Institute of Architects

Zipcars -- the cars you can rent for a few hours at a time -- are gaining traction at Harvard.

October 15 - Harvard Crimson