The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

A complete list of all 93 local and state measures for conservation and parks is available from Land Vote 2002, a service of LTA and TPL.

November 6 - The Trust for Public Land

La Plaza Mercado in the eart of Hispanic Detroit demonstrates the new flavor of downtown revitalizations.

November 6 - The Detroit Free Press

A Los Angeles architecture and urban design group launches a "dead mall" idea competition.

November 6 - Los Angeles Forum For Architecture and Urban Desig

Is rural residential development is a net fiscal loss for county governments? Planning & Markets features research about this question.

November 6 - Planning and Markets

With the cheap flight boom in the UK continuing, the UK government looks like having an uphill battle with some of its airport expansion proposals.

November 5 - The Guardian Unlimited

A Maori tribe in New Zealand has halted construction of a multimillion dollar highway because it is too close to the home of a "swamp monster" capable of causing traffic deaths.

November 5 - CNN

Danger lies in the potential roll out of a new Walmart convenience-store (C-store) prototype.

November 5 - REIS

Scientists warn that meeting energy needs while preventing global warming will require a research effort of a magnitude on par with the project to put man on the moon.

November 5 - The New York Times

An unprecendented project to photograph the entire California coastline and make it available on the Web is aimed at helping efforts to fight coastal threats like seawalls and development.

November 5 - San Jose Mercury News

California Secretary of Resources, Mary Nichols, discusses the development of the Malibu coastal plan imposed on the city by the state Coastal Commission.

November 5 - The Metro Investment Report

It is ranked 67th in terms of population, but after it merges with a county, it will be the 16th largest city in the nation. Is merging cities a national trend?

November 5 - USA Today

Critics complain that an executive order by President Bush speeds up environmental reviews of transportation projects to help Republican candidates.

November 5 - ABC News

U.S. Transportation Secretary Norman Y. Mineta today announced an initial list of seven transportation construction projects around the country that will receive accelerated environmental review under President Bush's executive order.

November 5 - U.S. Department Of Transportation

Bruce Katz identifies the key challenges the smart-growth movement needs to address if it is going to succeed.

November 5 - The Brookings Institution

The Globe and Mail compares Los Angeles and Toronto and asks how large a city can get before it starts to fall apart. Does LA's secession foreshadow things to come?

November 4 - The Globe

Debate rages over whether Cornell's College of Architecture, Art and Planning should be saved. Are the three disciplines too far removed from one another?

November 4 - Cornell University

Secession efforts in the nation's second-largest city appear doomed to failure.

November 4 - The Los Angeles Times

Allowing deregulated telecommunications companies the power of eminent domain to build-out the "Information Superhighway" abrogates the Constitutional contract of just compensation.

November 4 - Planning and Markets

This is the question facing voters in communities throughout California: To grow or not.

November 4 - The Los Angeles Times

A University of Minnesota professor has received funding to test an electric-powered, automated system of small cabs.

November 4 - Star Tribune