The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

The plan seeks to expand the city's mixed use development and improve transit options. An alternative version of the plan, recommended by the City Plan Commission, was voted down as the city council opted for the original, slightly amended plan.

June 22 - Dallas Morning News

Globalization and suburbanization have boosted Sydney's economy, despite the protests of "enemies" of such trends.

June 22 - The New City (Australia)

Wendell Cox argues for the "upside of sprawl", or "suburbanization" as he prefers to call it, in Montreal.

June 22 - The Montreal Gazette

The toll cordon around central Stockholm has reduced weekday motor vehicle traffic. Will voters support its continued operation in an advisory referendum vote in September 2006?

June 22 - The Local

A novelist takes on Gehry's gargantuan Atlantic Yards project, proposed for Brooklyn.

June 22 - Slate

Due to the ever-growing presence of Wal-Mart, Benton County, Arkansas, is seeing a rising population of Jewish families, and generally high religious diversity.

June 22 - The New York Times

We are entering the "urban century": the majority of the world's population now lives in an urban setting. Is this good or bad? An article presents the cases for and against cities.

June 22 - The Ottawa Citizen

Georgia law targetting illegal immigrants drives legal residents away from buying homes.

June 21 - The Los Angeles Times

The Supreme Court rules that the federal government does not have the power to reach far upstream to protect every wetland in a watershed. Depending on your choice of news source, the decision protects the environment, or limits regulation.

June 21 - Christian Science Montior

A small Louisiana island community faces the inevitability of losing their homes to the ocean, while the federal government plans a levee system that will exclude them.

June 21 - The New York Times

Since 2002, the combination of falling incomes and rising rents has significantly increased the burden housing costs impose upon New York City's households, especially those earning less than 80% of the median income.

June 21 - The New York Times

In the context of the World Urban Forum, a Canadian columnist says that the "higher education industry" could be the most important industry in the world, and could have a dramatic impact on the relationships between cities worldwide.

June 21 - The Toronto Star

Adjustable Rate Mortgages (ARMs) have traditionally been lower than fixed rates, but recent slowing in housing markets has led to an increase in rates and decrease in affordability.

June 21 - MSNBC.com

Even with projections that call for a large increase in students, faculty, and therefore congestion, officials at Florida International University are rejecting the Miami-Dade Transit Authority's best laid plans for alleviating traffic.

June 21 - The Miami Herald

In downtown Seattle and Portland, white gentrification leads to black flight to the suburbs.

June 21 - The Washington Post

The affordable housing crisis in Florida, arising from the state's booming real estate market, has pushed moderate income residents out of the housing market. Florida's legislature passed a bill in 2006 to create new programs addressing the problem.

June 21 - Sun-Sentinel

The midterm elections to take control of the House may hinge on "close-in" suburbs, once seen as strictly the domain of Republicans. These older suburbs may now give the Democrats a slight advantage due to changing demographics.

June 21 - The New York Times

Major environmental decision by the U.S. Supreme Court could limit the federal government's protection of wetlands.

June 20 - The San Francisco Chronicle

Affordability problems are escalating even as the housing market cools, according to a new report published by Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies. House prices will continue to appreciate in 2006.

June 20 - Harvard University

A new guide to the best cities to live in without driving.

June 20 - Auto-Free Livable Cities Guide