The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>Advocates for the preservation of historic homes in Houston's 6th ward, east of downtown, have posted video testimonials on the Web to help gain support for their cause.</p>

January 10 - The Houston Chronicle

<p>While programs for moderate-income first-time homebuyers are popular with residents, support for low-income rental housing remains low.</p>

January 9 - The Tennessean

<p>Megapolitans are regions that combine at least two, and often several, metropolitan areas. Researchers Robert E. Lang and Arthur C. Nelson developed the megapolitan concept in part to depict where the next 100 million Americans will live.</p>

January 9 - Planning magazine, American Planning Association

<p>In the first large scale residential building to incorporate universal design principles, integration of disabled residents and mixed income households are keys to success.</p>

January 9 - The New York Times

<p>The New York Times offers an online tour of the Fulton Street transit hub, which planners hope will straighten out the tangle of platforms and mezzanines below Lower Manhattan.</p>

January 9 - The New York Times

<p>Argentina's capital has placed a moratorium on new construction due to failing infrastructure and concerns over the pace of neighborhood change.</p>

January 9 - The Miami Herald

<p>In his new job as the executive director for recovery management in New Orleans, Ed Blakely brings decades of experience and a few potentially controversial ideas.</p>

January 9 - The Times Picayune

<p>A local architect and developer is making plans to provide affordable homes using recycled steel shipping containers.</p>

January 9 - In Business Las Vegas

<p>Anger over parking difficulties in the city has spawned attacks between motorists and enforcement officers, and even led to the death of one resident.</p>

January 9 - The New York Times

<p>Community development corporations were created about a generation ago to build housing in impoverished neighborhoods of New York City where private developers had given up. Now that these areas are flourishing, these CDCs face an uncertain future.</p>

January 9 - The New York Times

<p>Naples, Florida is a "poster child" for the speculative frenzy that helped drive up housing costs in the Sunshine State and elsewhere. New research indicates a higher level of speculative buying in the U.S. than previously thought.</p>

January 9 - The Wall Street Journal

<p>Governor-elect Martin O'Malley wants to redirect the state down the path of smart growth charted by former Governor Parris Glendening.</p>

January 8 - The Baltimore Sun

<p>Janice Woodcock, the executive director of the city Planning Commission, is charged with the task of updating the historic city's archaic zoning code.</p>

January 8 - The Philadelphia Inquirer

<p>In October 2005, New Yorkers were smelling pancakes all over the city; on Monday another mysterious unknown smell was being widely reported across the city.</p>

January 8 - CNN

<p>"Aqua Lodge" houseboats docked at a marina are houses according to Virginia state agencies. But they are boats according to the Tennessee manufacturer.</p>

January 8 - Richmond Times Dispatch

<p>An interview with Greenpeace USA executive director, John Passacantando on the unusually warm winter in Northeast, Exxon Mobil's funding of global warming skeptics, and the squelching of the views of U.S. government scientists on climate change.</p>

January 8 - Democracy Now

<p>Two City of Los Angeles senior traffic engineers are charged with breaking into traffic control computers and disabling traffic signals at busy Los Angeles intersections.</p>

January 8 - The Los Angeles Times

<p>Findings from a recent planning survey contradicts the plan to rebuild the community from scratch.</p>

January 8 - Associated Press via Kansas City Star

<p>Chris Williamson offers advice on how to make sure you don't confuse Census Bureau projections with actual planning.</p>

January 8 - Planning magazine, American Planning Association

FEATURE

From green building to the housing bubble, the editors of Planetizen review the most talked about stories of 2006.

January 8 - Planetizen Team