The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

City leaders in New Orleans are looking to the stars of architecture to help recreate the city's all-but ignored riverfront at the mouth of the Mississippi River.

October 2 - The Times-Picayune

<p>As more wealthy Bay Area residents purchase second homes to vacation in the Tahoe basin, long-time residents and workers find themselves priced-out, moving to less expensive, rural Nevada and commuting long distances, or out of the area entirely.</p>

October 2 - The San Francisco Chronicle

Joel John Roberts looks to Hong Kong for a solution to Los Angeles' homelessness problem.

October 2 - The Los Angeles Times

Pressed for land, cemeteries in Orlando, Florida, and elsewhere are being more efficient with space.

October 2 - The Orlando Sentinel

In an unusual role reversal, Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger has Democrat Phil Angelides on the defensive on environmental issues. Republicans in other states are also using the environment to appeal to voters.

October 2 - The Los Angeles Times

FEATURE

October 2 - Erik Kancler

As sales slump in New York City and the inventory of unsold real estate swells, there are signs that the once-profitable career of real estate brokerage may have had its day.

October 2 - The New York Sun

If Los Angeles is to finally get its subway to the sea, local officials will need a new definition of cost-efficiency, argues the L.A. Times.

October 2 - The Los Angeles Times

As Tempe, Arizona moves ahead with plans for more urban style growth, its neighbor Phoenix is not thrilled.

October 1 - East Valley Tribune

Across the country home sales are slowing and prices are dropping. The trend is causing most production home builders scale back their development plans. However, Lennar views the slowdown differently.

October 1 - The Miami Herald

A new high-rise mall on San Francisco's Market Street may provide a model for reviving other downtown shopping districts.

October 1 - The Los Angeles Times

A proposed commercial development on the Hawaiian Island of Kaua'i has been denied by a county planning commission. The site is located in a flood zone and construction would require the removal of many exotic trees. The developer plans to sue.

October 1 - The Garden Island

Fractured transportation plans from different Toronto area municipalities make regional transit planning a challenge.

October 1 - The Toronto Star

As the U.S. population ticks ever closer to the 300 million mark -- 299,800,000-plus and counting -- many environmentalists worry that the rising numbers will amplify existing environmental problems.

September 30 - The Christian Science Monitor

A Rhode Island Planning Board has approved regulations requiring developers to build affordable houses in all projects over 6 units.

September 30 - The Providence Journal

In New Jersey, developers have broken ground on a housing development created with the interests of the predominantly Orthodox Jewish community in mind.

September 30 - The New York Times

As more and more African's move to cities, experts fear the growth of huge slum-filled mega cities, unable to meet the demand for basic services.

September 30 - Business in Africa

Contrary to American housing markets, Canadian housing sales have continued to grow this year.

September 30 - Times Colonist

A local police call in Port St. Lucie Florida reporting one man chasing another with a machete led to a multi-state federal investigation of a sophisticated ring that recruited marijuana growers with the promise of free home financing.

September 29 - TCPalm

Infrastructure as tourism: The massive, 1.4-mile long Three Gorges Dam is rapidly becoming a hot tourist destination, with three reputable cruise lines now visiting the dam.

September 29 - The New York Times Style Magazine