The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Land use critic Jill Stewart compares Los Angeles' Playa Vista development to the disasterous Belmont school development site.

January 5 - New Times-LA

There is less oil in the ground each year. But knowledge, and not natural resources, is the critical resource in the new economy.

January 5 - The Atlantic Monthly

King County is experimenting with sustainable agriculture in the midst of sprawl.

January 5 - The Seattle Times

This editorial suggests that land use practices are doomed to failure because they rely on zoning that ignores natural resources.

January 5 - Planetizen

A new federal rule will prevent any major expansion of logging in the national forest system.

January 5 - The Los Angeles Times

Transit planners in Silicon Valley are faced with rapidly rising costs -- and $300 million for a mile of new road is a good deal.

January 5 - San Jose Mercury News

Forty-four highway projects have been delayed as talks among the state and environmental groups break down.

January 5 - The New York Times

With a focus on enhancing a sense of neighborhood and not style, Polyzoides and Moule bring New Urbanism to L.A.

January 4 - The Los Angeles Times

Diverse Californians hold similar views of California's changing social landscape.

January 4 - The San Francisco Chronicle

The FAA is looking at El Toro, the former Marine airfield, in Orange County as a possible new international airport.

January 4 - The Los Angeles Times

An editorial in the Seattle Times argues that Seattle should bite the proverbial bullet and build light rail.

January 4 - The Seattle Times

Springfield, Ill., is the nation's most affordable housing market and San Francisco is the nation's most expensive.

January 4 - National Association of Home Builders

A vigilante anti-urban sprawl group has claimed responsibility for vandalism of three luxury homes on Long Island.

January 4 - The New York Times

Bush's Choices for Energy, Interior Secretaries are condemned by a conservation group as a step backwards.

January 4 - League of Conservation Voters

The director of Smart Growth America, disputes a New York Times article about a splinter in the smart growth community.

January 4 - The New York Times

FEATURE

Current land use practices are doomed to failure because they rely on zoning that ignores the capacity and function of the community's natural resources.

January 4 - William B. Honachefsky, P.L.S., P.P.

As new malls and condos replace buildings of historic significance, Chicago struggles with the question: What is more important, property rights and progress or preserving architectural heritage?

January 3 - San Jose Mercury News

Some cities in Georgia are creating their own long-term strategies to combat urban sprawl. Critics argue that some "smart growth" ordinances violate property rights and cause other problems.

January 3 - Savannah Morning News

Soaring housing prices are driving the middle class out of the Bay Area; experts and economists warn that the crisis could spread to other parts of California.

January 3 - The San Diego Union-Tribune

Vacant land and abandoned buildings can be an economic development resource for cities.

January 3 - The Brookings Institution