The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Two St. Louis architects defend Busch Stadium in the face of plans for its demolition and replacement with a 'cheap imitation' of Baltimore's Camden Yards.

December 8 - St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A clever advertising campaign by a region in Southwest France offers a comprehensive package of assistance to residents who leave Paris.

December 8 - The Los Angeles Times

We all know how you can lie with numbers. You can lie with maps much more effectively, as Jonathan Corum demonstrates with a widely-used map of California's recent gubernatorial election results.

December 7 - Style.org

The multi-billionaire is spearheading a drive to shrink many of Ohio's schools by breaking them apart, but not all is going according to plan.

December 7 - The Cleveland Plain Dealer

Employees of the Cincinnati Department of Community Development got a visit from the Fraud Squad as part of an investigation of a series of development scandals in the city.

December 7 - The Cincinnati Enquirer

In the context of using physical solutions to address obesity and other health issues, Ann Lusk makes a case for implementing multi-use paths in urban and suburban settings in the United States, and highlights success stories.

December 7 - Planners Network

Ranch owner puts up 35,000 acres for development amidst implications of groundwater shortages and environmental degradation.

December 7 - The Arizona Republic

Its metropolitan area now includes almost 20 million people; some politicians welcome the influx, but there is a darker side to this manic growth.

December 6 - The Observer

The top environmental issue in most American communities is how to save nearby farmland or build new local parks.

December 6 - The Denver Post

A plant that turns sewage into drinking water is Singapore's latest tourist attraction.

December 6 - BBC News

Some think of Birmingham, England as 'grim, drab, industrial waste,' but a spectacular new building could change everything for the old industrial city.

December 6 - The New York Times

An excess of telephone, fiber-optic and electrical wires criss-crossing the city is just one of the problems related to the city's recent explosion of technological advancements.

December 6 - Star Tribune

Commute times have risen in many areas. Is sprawl to blame?

December 6 - University Of California Transportation Center

A real estate group says banning big-box stores would cause economic pain.

December 5 - Austin American-Statesmen

Conservative writer Thomas Sowell charges that zoning and political meddling with housing markets drives housing prices up and encourages sprawl.

December 5 - Town Hall

In creating the town green and an overarching landscape plan for the new town of WaterColor, Florida, Nelson-Byrd Landscape Architects let the site's diverse native vegetation take the lead role.

December 5 - American Society Of Landscape Architects

A growing minority of gun owners are unhappy with Bush's environmental principles.

December 5 - The Christian Science Monitor

Two government experts say that new evidence leaves "no doubt" that human factors are to blame for global warming.

December 5 - Common Dreams

Peter Park is Denver's new planning director, and formerly lead Milwaukee's Department of City Development.

December 5 - The Denver Post

In a blistering critique of the Bush administration's environmental policies, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says the White House has deceived the American people and weakened the nation's environmental laws.

December 5 - The Independent