The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

New housing developments in the Palm Springs desert capitalize on Modernist styles popularized in the 1950s, while adding newer sustainable touches.

May 5 - The Los Angeles Times

NBC movie depicts California falling into the ocean after a 10.5 earthquake. The U.S. Geological Service separates fact from fiction contained in this Hollywood fantasy.

May 5 - The San Bernardino Sun

An American designer wants to create humanistic spaces amidst China's frenzied mall-building boom.

May 5 - Time

Urban sprawl negatively impacts the lives of persons with disabilities.

May 4 - Yahoo! Newswire

Former Calfiornia Resources Secretary Mary Nichols opines on her legacy and the environmental challenges facing the Schwarzenegger administration.

May 4 - The Planning Report

San Francisco to offer housing and counseling instead of cash to its 2,500 homeless people.

May 4 - The San Francisco Chronicle

Edinburgh may be the first Scottish city to try congestion pricing, but others will surely follow.

May 4 - The Herald (UK)

Unlike products, places can’t just be "discontinued, modified, withdrawn from the market, re-launched and re-positioned or replaced by improved products".

May 4 - Brandchannel

The American Enterprise Institute questions the American Lung Association's recent State of the Air 2004 report, which identified the most polluted cities in the U.S.

May 4 - Tech Central Station

Sacramento's most influential leaders want the city to grow without sprawling.

May 4 - The Sacramento Bee

Retro alleys are the new hot trend in metro Atlanta. Especially if you call them 'mews'.

May 4 - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

An interview with Doug Kelbaugh, dean of the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.

May 4 - Michigan Live

Does changing the built environment by making it more 'walkable' prompt people to change their travel habits?

May 4 - Institute Of Transportation Studies

The use of autos as status objects is losing ground to a more environmentally and socially benign item -- phones.

May 3 - The Economist

Cleveland hopes to generate jobs, spark residential, retail and other development, generating jobs and revive it's shrinking tax base with the Euclid Corridor project.

May 3 - The Cleveland Plain Dealer

Despite a new law to make traffic better, Beijing's traffic is so bad, city leaders are considering changing the layout of the entire urban city.

May 3 - Shanghai Daily - English Eastday

An innovative new private equity fund s dedicated to building homes in Los Angeles's inner city.

May 3 - Wall St. Journal

The five-year dry spell in the western U.S. may be climatic norm instead of a passing drought. Was the rapid development of the western states a "colossal miscalculation?"

May 3 - The New York Times

Does the design of the new Oklahoma City federal building answer the question about how to balance security and openness?

May 3 - The Chicago Tribune

East coast cities are becoming old school as the American West exemplifies new urban patterns.

May 3 - The Arizona Republic