The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Even before approval of an official ban, nearly 200 bars and restaurants have prohibited smoking on their own.

January 10 - The Washington Post

A new website streamlines the home buying process, threatening realtors and their 6% commission.

January 10 - The New York Times

Governor Schwarzenegger's new strategic growth plan does not include any funding for the ambitious 700-mile route.

January 10 - The Sacramento Bee

Loudoun County, Virginia, developers have little time to get approval for hundreds of new homes before a revised zoning ordinance is passed.

January 10 - The Washington Post

MultiCare Health System wants to buy the property for $6 million -- twice the appraised value -- while a small group of preservationists object.

January 10 - Tacoma News Tribune

A raging fire guts Adler & Sullivan's 1891 K.A.M./Pilgrim Baptist Church in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood and, in silencing the rich echoes of over a century of human aspiration, offers a potent reminder of how architecture channels urban memory.

January 9 - Repeat

New alliances and collaborations are winning community benefits agreements that dramatically improve the lives of low-income residents.

January 9 - Shelterforce Magazine

With rising energy costs have come booming oil revenues for western and eastern Canada, while central Canada may be facing "brownouts" and a difficult future -- how will energy change the Canadian landscape?

January 9 - The Globe & Mail

After sowing investment in their locales, a growing number of universities in urban centers are reaping vibrant near-campus districts.

January 9 - The Washington Post

Roger K. Lewis argues that there's no way to safely rebuild New Orleans the way it was. Let nature take its course, and build over the water instead of building in harm's way.

January 9 - The Washington Post

Without the Suburbs, our parents and grandparents would have paid rent most of their lives, and the equity that so much of the American Dream depends on would simply not have developed, suggests Wendell Cox.

January 9 - Demographia / PA Township News

New Orleans' official plan for rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina is expected to be released Wednesday, and may conflict with recommendations in the state plan.

January 9 - The New York Times

The Governor's Commission on Recovery, Rebuilding, and Renewal and Urban Design Associates publishes a 'Pattern Book' offering details and techniques for building and renovating Gulf Coast houses.

January 9 - Governor's Commission on Recovery, Rebuilding, and Renewal

For some New York families the move from the city to the suburbs is not all that it is cracked up to be.

January 9 - The New York Times

Gail Goldberg, head of San Diego's planning department, will become the General Manager of the Los Angeles City Planning Department, replacing Con Howe, who departed months ago.

January 9 - The Los Angeles Times

Nearly 100 years after the city's devastating 1906 earthquake, San Francisco's architecture still leaves it particularly vulnerable to another temblor.

January 8 - The Los Angeles Times

Want to see what follows a housing bubble? Look to China's largest city, Shanghai.

January 8 - The Los Angeles Times

The Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research summarizes a recent study by Harvard University economist Edward L. Glaeser that charges that zoning is major cause of the crisis in Massachusetts' housing affordability.

January 8 - The Boston Globe

A law professor publishes an article discussing how to teach a course on sprawl and the law.

January 8 - Social Science Research Network (SSRN)

Gov. Rendell, chair of the bi-state Delaware River Port Authority, has threatened a PATCO shutdown if the NJ delegation does not approve funds for dredging the Delaware's main shipping channel.

January 8 - The Philadelphia Inquirer