The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Population loss continues for Cleveland and its inner-ring suburbs.

March 17 - The Cleveland Plain Dealer

As the Fort Worth Dallas Region anticipates the addition of four million people in the next 25 years, the region's transportation planners take a multimodal approach to planning needed improvements.

March 17 - Fort Worth Star Telegram

"Soft-core urbanism" and gentrification are changing Atlanta's demographics and local politics.

March 16 - The New York Times

Music giant EMI may sell the famous Capital Records building in Hollywood to a housing developer. Converting landmark corporate buildings to housing has become a trend in Southern California.

March 16 - The Los Angeles Times

The administration espouses a 'Housing First' approach, yet cities lack the resources necessary for implementation.

March 16 - Seattle Weekly

No, according to an op-ed in the San Francisco Bay Guardian, which lists alternative strategies for preserving affordable housing.

March 16 - The San Francisco Bay Guardian

Hundreds of children are growing up in an area Police Chief Bratton refers to as the biggest social disaster in America.

March 16 - LA Weekly

Planners hope that Detroit's Airport City will take off, lifting the fate of Detroit, and even Michigan, with it.

March 16 - Detroit Metro Times

Although the future Washington Nationals' stadium successfully breaks from the retro design trend in stadium architecture, it ultimately disappoints, according to critic Benjamin Forgey.

March 16 - The Washington Post

In his annual state of the city address, Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick looks to build on the success of last summer's MLB All-Star Game, Superbowl XL, and the recent boom in downtown housing starts.

March 16 - The Detroit Free Press

There has been little to equal the speed and extent of the development of the Chinese city of Chongqing, which is growing so rapidly, a population equivalent to that of Luxembourg is added each year.

March 16 - The Guardian Unlimited

Downtown locations for many of the social service and training opportunities immigrants need may no longer make sense in rapidly-growing cities such as Calgary.

March 16 - The Globe and Mail

Cities and counties across California have struggled to find money for reinforcing bridges to protect them during earthquakes.

March 15 - Abhijeet Chavan

Opposition to an energy boom in Silt Colorado is building among environmentalists, property-rights advocates, ranchers, county commissioners, and mayors.

March 15 - The Christian Science Monitor

Volunteers work from midnight to four in the morning in the bitter cold to find the maximum number of street dwellers.

March 15 - The Village Voice

Former EPA chief Christine Todd Whitman touts smart growth in Indiana.

March 15 - The Courier-Journal

A new study shows that the number of households entering some stage of foreclosure is up 45% over this time last year -- one for every 1,117 U.S. households.

March 15 - MSN Real Estate

While research has yet to conclusively prove a link between neighborhood design and childhood obesity, studies do show that urban design considerations can facilitate healthy child outcomes.

March 15 - The Future of Children (Princeton-Brookings)

Stacked wood and concrete frame boxes create new immigrant homes in a San Diego suburb. Squatter housing south of the border inspired Architect Teddy Cruz.

March 15 - The New York Times

Energy concerns aside, suburbia has become unsustainable as an environment of debt and economic apartheid, writes John Barber.

March 15 - The Globe and Mail