The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

40 years after the height of urban renewal, politics and real estate market swings have caused a prime 13-acre oceanfront parcel to remain vacant in Hull, Massachusetts. What gives?

March 15 - The Boston Globe

On the eve of her introduction into the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame, music superstar Deborah Harry of Blondie says that her "future will be in architecture and urban planning".

March 15 - Newsday

As California's housing boom continues, finding sufficient land to enable businesses to expand is becoming increasingly challenging. The potential impacts on California's economy will be dramatic.

March 14 - The Los Angeles Times

The San Juan municipal government (Puerto Rico's capital city) will penalize anyone who uses public structures such as lampposts and bridges to display posters and ads.

March 14 - Puerto Rico Wow

It's not okay for government to evict property owners in the name of "over-reaching redevelopment," a Los Angeles Times editorial warns.

March 14 - Abhijeet Chavan

Home sales have come to a near standstill in Shanghai, whose 20 million residents account for two percent of China's population, but 20 percent of the country's property value.

March 14 - The Los Angeles Times

The state has begun to consider imposing limits on emissions, but some are concerned that they will not meet EPA standards, let alone surpass them.

March 14 - The Austin Chronicle

Can you say Super Transit Oriented Development?

March 14 - Michigan Land Use Institute

Kalamazoo, Michigan, has developed a unique plan for revitalization: free college tuition for any student who enters the school system by ninth grade.

March 14 - Wall Street Journal via Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Many Southern Californians find the grass isn't greener elsewhere, and the very housing market they cashed in on to finance an out-of-state move is now making a return back home much more difficult.

March 14 - Riverside Press-Enterprise

Earlier studies have looked at the effects of global warming on individual species. A new study shows that global warming is changing the entire northern Bering Sea ecosystem.

March 14 - The Los Angeles Times

In San Diego's new downtown plan, population would soar to 90,000 and employment to 170,000 in a smart growth scheme that includes many new parks and neighborhood centers.

March 14 - San Diego Union Tribune

Housing booms along the corridor of a two-year-old light rail line, decades faster than expected.

March 13 - Directions Newsletter

The Katrina disaster exposed the major fault lines of American society and politics: class and race. It offers lessons for urban scholars and practitioners, writes Peter Dreier of Occidental College in this academic journal article.

March 13 - Urban Affairs Review

With few restrictions imposed by land use plans, northeast Los Angeles has been like the Wild West for developers. That may be about to change.

March 13 - The Los Angeles Times

Without access to the kind of community support they once knew in their homelands, otherwise successful recent immigrant women to Canada are finding themselves socially isolated and depressed in suburbia.

March 13 - The Globe & Mail

Los Angeles Times editorial supports property rights in a dispute between a landowner and a group that has created a sustainable community garden in Los Angeles' South Central area.

March 13 - The Los Angeles Times

The Georgia Department of Transportation proposes adding eight lanes to the already 15 lane wide stretch of Interstate Highway 75 that runs through the northern Atlanta suburbs.

March 13 - Atlanta Journal Constitution

A recent controversy in Montreal might shed light on how to tame gentrification.

March 13 - Maisonneuve

FEATURE

March 13 - Michael Lewyn