The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Could forced relocation to safer ground improve the city's communities, or will its costs disproportionately impact the poor?

February 24 - The San Diego Union-Tribune

Planners look to connect the nation's third largest park system through a vast array of greenways.

February 24 - The Miami Herald

Austin Energy is using new technology to monitor energy use more carefully, in the hopes of developing a 'smart energy network'.

February 24 - The Austin Chronicle

A challenge to the Clean Water Act currently before the Supreme Court could endanger the nation's streams.

February 23 - San Jose Mercury News

The Florida Department of Community Affairs recommends that Miami-Dade County reject all development projects on the county's fringes until the county identifies sufficient drinking water.

February 23 - The Miami Herald

China announces new rules aimed at enforcing environmental protection.

February 23 - The Los Angeles Times

To architect Cameron Sinclair, the bigger the problem, the more ways there must be to solve it. His goal is to find low-cost solutions that inspire.

February 23 - The Christian Science Monitor

President Bush's visit to a major renewable energy laboratory inadvertently uncovered inconsistencies between his State of the Union address supporting alternate energy and actual federal funding for such efforts.

February 23 - The Los Angeles Times

Will Oregon's famously tough urban-growth boundaries be breached? It appears so, as Oregon's sweeping property-right law is upheld by the state's Supreme Court.

February 23 - The Oregonian

Recent studies have called into question the popular crime-fighting technique, suggesting that larger urban trends have a greater impact.

February 23 - The Boston Globe

In downtown Ann Arbor, dense high rise development has traditionally been thought of negatively. However, a recent shift in political will has the City approving projects that will add greater density and housing to its commercial core.

February 23 - Ann Arbor News

In his new book, 'The Destruction of Memory: Architecture at War', Robert Bevan examines why significant architecture is so often targeted in armed conflict.

February 23 - Times Online

Cuyahoga County's woes figure prominently in a new report that calls for addressing the growing needs of older suburbs.

February 23 - The Cleveland Plain Dealer

A case before the Supreme Court which tests the limits of Federal control under the Clean Water Act could have a major impact on development around the country.

February 22 - The Washington Post

Surprising even fellow Republicans, President Bush defends plans by a foreign company owned by the United Arab Emirates to manage operations at six large U.S. ports.

February 22 - The Los Angeles Times

Mining companies are blasting away the tops of Appalachian mountains causing severe ecological damage and devastating communities.

February 22 - Grist

Dense, arty neighborhoods have failed to attract talent and capital, writes Joel Kotkin. What people really want is affordable space.

February 22 - The Australian

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa imagines a future Los Angeles with transit-oriented development, high-rises, and scores of pocket parks. Critics say the vision is impractical.

February 22 - The Los Angeles Times

Will the frenzy of New Orleans' 'defiantly idiosyncratic character' be replaced by a few tame, touristy neighborhoods like the 'Disneyfied Vieux Carre'?

February 22 - U.S. News & World Report

'The Boys of Baraka' chronicles the lives of four at-risk boys as they travel from their crime-infested neighborhood to a special school in Kenya.

February 22 - San Francisco Weekly