The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Chicago can now be added to the list of cities wary of Wal-Mart's arrival.

May 8 - The New York Times

The Population Reference Bureau offers a primer on the impact increasing urbanization will have on the environment.

May 8 - Population Reference Bureau

Jane Jacob's new book, "Dark Age Ahead" a 'treat to read', even if you don't buy into the theme.

May 8 - The San Francisco Chronicle

Asbury Park, N.J., was known as 'Beirut by the shore' until a $1.2 billion redevelopment project sparked the creation of a gay mecca.

May 8 - Wall St. Journal

Streets should be both a physical and social part of our living environment.

May 7 - Architecture Week

Is San Francisco's BART being used as to recruit new members into local rival gangs?

May 7 - San Francisco Examiner

A wave of upscale residential building has residents wondering whether the old blue-collar neighborhood can survive.

May 7 - The Baltimore Sun

The absence of a regional governing agency in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, may result in the loss of an international trade center.

May 7 - The Sun News

A national test program aims to make rail travel safer.

May 7 - The Baltimore Sun

Many immigrant women in New York travel up to four hours a day for low paying jobs.

May 7 - The New York Times

Architect Frank Gehry's new research center for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology pushes the envelope for architecture, academia, and science. (Includes links to photos, plans, and webcams.)

May 7 - Wired

Are suburban housing policies intentionally limiting housing options for parents with children to keep school costs low?

May 7 - USA Today

Locals worry that redevelopment of cavernous underground mall will just replace one monster with another.

May 7 - Reuters

Two new technologies -- automated toll collection and market pricing for roadways -- make market-based toll systems even better at relieving traffic congestion.

May 7 - Forbes

What Cleveland can learn from Minneapolis-St. Paul.

May 6 - The Cleveland Free Times

Urban planning departments are experiencing a revival in cities across the nation. Governing Magazine profiles Andy Altman as a model of the 'new planner.'

May 6 - Governing

Parisians plan large-scale urban renewal efforts in Les Halles, known as the "belly" of the city.

May 6 - Yahoo! Newswire

Can the completion of this week's major construction hurdle provide a necessary vote of confidence that Greece is indeed ready for the Games?

May 6 - The New York Times

The 1967 group "Choose an Effective City Council" (CHECC) reshaped Seattle city politics just in time to reshape its physical growth as well.

May 6 - The Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Twenty years after Prince Charles' tirade on Modern architecture, a look at the effect it has had on British architecture.

May 6 - The Guardian Unlimited