The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Nashville may have many great qualities, but what it doesn't have -- and what Charlotte does -- is a revitalized urban core.

September 30 - Nashville City Paper

The city is trying to make up for past urban planning mistakes by returning to its riverfront roots, and using modern architecture inspired by Chicago's riverfront success.

September 30 - The Chicago Tribune

The ideologically-loaded debate over what kind of history can be permitted at the former World Trade Center site has put an end to the proposed International Freedom Center.

September 30 - The New York Times

The Los Angeles Conservancy has entered the realm of Hollywood cause celebrity, with stars like Jack Nicholson, Steve Martin, Ben Stiller, and Ellen DeGeneres joining the organization devoted to preserving historic architecture.

September 30 - The Los Angeles Times

Reviews of Michael Crichton's appearance before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works ranged from 'silly' to 'notable for its nuttiness'.

September 29 - The New York Times

While the core of historical New Orleans remains, the buildings and architecture of Biloxi have been completely destroyed.

September 29 - Newsweek

Policy makers look for creative ways to retain middle class workers and families in areas afflicted by housing price surges.

September 29 - The New York Times

The National Science Foundation is funding research teams to go to the Gulf Coast region to draw as many lessons as possible from the Hurricane Katrina disaster before evidence is lost.

September 29 - National Science Foundation

A bill rapidly moving through the House favors land developers over species.

September 29 - The Christian Science Monitor

Fort Worth City planner Fernando Costa has been tapped to lead an APA-formed team of five planners in advising New Orleans' city staff as they regroup after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.

September 29 - Star-Telegram

A new King County, WA study shows that residents in the most walkable neighborhoods are over twice as likely to be physically active than people who live in the least walkable neighborhoods.

September 29 - The Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Too few buses didn't work for New Orleans, and too many cars didn't work for Houston. Rail is the third way.

September 29 - The New York Times

Man and his dog leaves New Orleans on foot, and rides the rest of the way on a donated bike.

September 29 - Lamar Daily News

FEATURE

September 29 - Ken Snyder

The village of Huangbaiyu will be part of an innovative joint U.S.-China development project to create an ecologically-balanced area. Could this be a model for China's new urbanism?

September 28 - Newsweek

Famous for its oil wealth and the "prosperity cheques" being handed out to every resident, the Canadian Province of Alberta is actually a classic example of rapacious growth, dangerously poor planning and poor performance on social development indicators.

September 28 - The Globe and Mail

The article, which first appeared in 1990, details plans made after the September 8, 1900 hurricane to reshape the city of Galveston to prevent vulnerability to flooding.

September 28 - American Heritage

University of California, Irvine administrators cite structural deterioration in their decision to demolish a building designed by famed architect Frank Gehry.

September 28 - New University Paper

Are developers seeking to rebuild New Orleans planning to develop a new, whiter and richer city?

September 28 - AlterNet

Since the 1950s, developers have done more to shape the city of San Diego than architects, for better and worse.

September 28 - The San Diego Union-Tribune