The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Philadelphis is attempting to reduce concentrations of poverty and increase property values through the development of suburban style homes. But is following this national trend right for the city of brotherly love and its most needy residents?

December 5 - The Philadelphia Inquirer

Historic office buildings are increasingly being reinvented as condominiums in CBDs (central business districts) across the country.

December 5 - ArchNewsNow.com

The prominence of the Congress for the New Urbanism in the Katrina rebuilding effort seems to be making some professionals -- such as architect Eric Owen Moss to author Mike Davis -- nervous.

December 4 - The Los Angeles Times

His last project was the famous Hamptons 'Houses at Sagaponac' development.

December 4 - The New York Times

The Northwest is home to several prominent environmentally friendly architecture and development firms that are paving the way for a 'green' renaissance.

December 4 - The Oregonian

Did public housing play a role in the recent French riots?

December 4 - NPR

The top candidate to run San Francisco's Municipal Transportation Agency would make $322,450 per year, slightly less than the national average.

December 4 - The San Francisco Chronicle

Several 'starchitects' are clamoring to build Denver's new Civic Center -- but the city shouldn't forget about the important principles of 'public' and 'place'.

December 3 - The Denver Post

With the shelving of the proposed LAX improvement plan, the city of Los Angeles is now free to consider feasible ideas to modernize the airport.

December 3 - The Los Angeles Times

If the Bush Administration continues to refuse to fund coastal wetland restoration, then New Orleans is doomed and should be abandoned, argues Mike Tidwell.

December 3 - Orion Magazine

Las Vegas hospitality industry lure away Los Angeles' luxury market.

December 3 - The Los Angeles Times

To be a fully functioning citizen in this country today, a car is a virtual necessity; so the federal government should subsidize a set of wheels and the commute to work.

December 3 - Washington Monthly (via Alternet)

Mazda is recommending employees walk rather than drive to work.

December 2 - New York Times, AP.

New data suggest that condo converters are buying apartments with near-religious fervor. The Slatin Report rundowns the top 20 markets.

December 2 - The Slatin Report

At a U.N. climate conference in Montreal, nations seek to earn carbon credits for projects that avoid deforestation.

December 2 - BBC

Are 'New Markets Tax Credits' the vehicle to improve community and economic development in ways America has never seen?

December 2 - Planning Magazine

Neil Pierce writes about a struggle that may shape the nation's economy for a century.

December 2 - The Washington Post Writers Group

The San Jose Mercury News compiles a list of the 'worst of the worst' rodas in Northern California, according to it readers.

December 2 - The Mercury News

The world's media is criticized for negative coverage of environmental issues.

December 2 - BBC

A special six-member team of planners assembled by the APA put published its report, "Charting the Course for Rebuilding a Great American City," which includes short-and long-term recommendations for improving the city's planning.

December 2 - American Planning Association