The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

The Financial Times presents an interesting comparative analysis of growth policies and past trends in China and India and comments on their future impacts.

May 23 - The Financial Times

BLOG POST

The always-rewarding <a href="http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2006/05/interview-with-mike-davis-part-1.html">Bldgblog</a> has a fun interview with <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/102-2109421-3874529?search-alias=aps&keywords=Mike%20Davis">Mike Davis</a>, who wrote the iconic history of Los Angeles <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679738061/sr=8-3/qid=1148411041/ref=pd_bbs_3/102-2109421-3874529?%5Fencoding=UTF8"><em>City of Quartz</em></a>. Davis is flacking a new book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1844670228/sr=8-1/qid=1148411041/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-2109421-3874529?%5Fencoding=UTF8"><em>Planet of Slums</em></a>

May 23 - Anonymous

Randal O'Toole blames land use planning for high housing costs in San Francisco in this op-ed column.

May 23 - The San Francisco Chronicle

Hercules, California, known for a recent New Urbanist development, may stop a proposed Wal-Mart by using eminent domain to take its land. This would be the first time that a city took land from Wal-Mart.

May 23 - The San Francisco Chronicle

Why does Los Angeles have an inferiority complex?

May 23 - The Los Angeles Times

Differences between largely rural, conservative northern Maine and the more urban and progressive southern half of the state are growing wider, with conflicts coming to a head over the preservation of Maine's famous North Woods.

May 23 - USA Today

California's November transportation bond is $20 billion, with $4 billion for transit. Yet Gov. Schwarzenegger proposes to use a public transit account for the same amount, to help pay off the bond's debt payments.

May 23 - The Sacramento Bee

Arguably the most popular observatory-museum-planetarium in the world, the newly-restored Griffith Observatory is also one of the most recognizable buildings in Los Angeles.

May 23 - The Planning Report

Many West Virginians must leave the state to find work, but they long for home.

May 23 - The New York Times

FEATURE

May 23 - cate miller

Los Angeles has to choose between luxury condos or more homeless services for skid row.

May 22 - Abhijeet Chavan

After years of delays, a green mega-mall called 'Destiny USA' gets approval to build in Syracuse. Could this be economic development salvation for upstate New York as well as an environmentalist's dream?

May 22 - MSNBC / Associated Press

In addition to a new underground metro project, the city has given final approval to an above-ground monorail.

May 22 - The Times Of India

An astronomical vacancy rate and prices that are far from affordable have prompted government action.

May 22 - Asia Times

The world's largest oil company takes heat from major state government pension fund investors for not owning up to an obligation to address global warming.

May 22 - The Sacramento Bee

Fort Lauderdale's mayor condemned a proposed workforce housing ordinance as unfair to developers and 'communistic'. He said people mistakenly think they're entitled to an affordable single family house on a 40-hour work week.

May 22 - Sun-Sentinel

What was once one of its most productive shipyards is now slated to become a billion dollar urban village on Boston's south shore.

May 22 - The Boston Globe

At the southern tip of California's San Joaquin Valley lies Bakersfield, a city of 312,000, expected to grow to 730,000 in three decades. It has just doubled its sphere of influence and shows little inclination to put restraints on growth.

May 22 - USA Today

As housing prices continue to increase in the New York City metropolitan area, residents are moving farther and farther away to find affordable housing.

May 22 - The New York Times

Cory Booker, the newly elected mayor of Newark, New Jersey, has charged himself with turning around one of America's most dangerous cities.

May 22 - The New York Times