The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

The link between health and sprawl makes 'smart' growth look even smarter.

June 3 - The Miami Herald

Detroit, MI, hopes a new urban park will bring urban vitality and street life to its downtown.

June 3 - The Detroit Free Press

Green technology has been promoted as an environmentally responsible and fiscally sound alternative, but do green technologies really make good business sense?

June 3 - Los Angeles Regional Technology Alliance

Tustin Legacy is the largest reuse of obsolete space and will include townhomes, detached homes and paired homes.

June 3 - The Los Angeles Times

Does Harvard's acquisition of the 91 acres on either side of the turnpike gives the university too much power?

June 3 - The Boston Globe

Municipalities are hiring architects to ensure that new development is architecturally interesting and does not look resemble sprawling cookie-cutter subdivisions

June 3 - The National Post

With this report Harnik has expanded data collection to 55 cities and has expanded the measures of park-system quality to include what he calls the 'seven habits of a highly effective park system.'

June 3 - The Trust for Public Land

Does pouring money in cultural landmarks help revive a declining city?

June 3 - The Guardian Unlimited

Ninety-five percent of Maryland's trips are by way of private automobile. Former Gov. Parris Glendening's smart growth policies are to be overturned.

June 3 - Associated Press

In this unusual theme park visitors can experience the lifestyles of the world's poor and learn how to build low-cost housing.

June 3 - BBC News

An 85-acre, $150-million sports center in Carson, CA, is a new concept in sports center entertainment.

June 3 - The Los Angeles Times

Colin Hubbell is a successfulurban developer who's helped build 1,000 homes in his hometown of Detroit in the last six years.

June 2 - Michigan Land Use Institute

In new tactic, environmentalists in Arizona try to outbid ranchers to protect state land.

June 2 - The Christian Science Monitor

What do you do when the worst and largest substandard housing development in the region sits on sovereign Indian land, and has become commercial.

June 2 - The Los Angeles Times

Flooding begins at China's Three Gorges project. Critics say the project will cause massive environmental damage.

June 2 - BBC News

An intentionally-overlooked tax loophole will allow any self-employed person to claim tax deductions for the purchase of an SUV.

June 2 - The Los Angeles Times

Water levels have started to rise in China's massive Three Gorges project, one of the most ambitious engineering projects ever involving the resettlement of up to two million people. Is this an environmental catastrophe in the making?

June 2 - The Independent

William Fulton explains how a citizen anti-tax initiative passed 25 years ago has turned out to be a major force in shaping the urban and suburban landscape we see throughout the country today.

June 2 - California Planning and Development Report

Are stream buffers effective or is Fairfax County, VA, using environmental ordinances to slow development?

June 2 - The Washington Post

Is light rail better than busses, or just more expensive? The Los Angeles Times investigates.

June 2 - The Los Angeles Times