The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

How the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (DWP) is trying to reverse this desertification of Owens Lake.

June 4 - MetropolisMag.com

Joel Hirschhorn examines the power of the "sprawl lobby", and its impact on the American landscape.

June 4 - Newtopia Magazine

Neal Peirce compares 20th-century renewal plans with Detroit's New Urbanism-based formula for a massive urban renewal.

June 4 - The Washington Post Writers Group

The conventional enclosed mall is in decline as developers around the nation replace it with a new retail attraction that aims to recreate the atmosphere of a vibrant downtown.

June 4 - The Los Angeles Times

Project to use van equipped with digital cameras aims to to build a nation-wide database of 15 million buildings.

June 4 - The New York Times

There are a host of obstacles which, when taken together, render building smart growth projects both more difficult and less profitable than building conventional sprawl.

June 4 - Newtopia Magazine

There is a growing preference of retirees for "traditional neighborhood developments" which are intended to resemble actual "traditional neighborhoods" in many ways.

June 4 - The Christian Science Monitor

Among America's largest cities, Chicago seems to have captured the green championship.

June 3 - Newtopia Magazine

Higher gas prices may be the only way to force concern about fuel efficiency.

June 3 - The Washington Post

Assemblyman Darrell Steinberg analyzes the recent deal struck between Governor Schwarzenegger and the League of Cities, lamenting that the deal fails to include the reform necessary to fix the system.

June 3 - The Metro Investment Report

In hard economic times, Detroit cannot afford at $1 billion conventiion center.

June 3 - The Detroit News

Before the developers came, Bunker Hill was an impoverished but proud and thriving community.

June 3 - The Los Angeles Times

Observers say it is part of a larger pateern of "atomization of America".

June 3 - The Washington Post

Even though retirement money is pouring into the inner-city for retail development, the risk may still outweigh the gain.

June 3 - Business Week

Macomb County's new $15 millio-dollar recreation center is part of a new trend towards large recreation facilities.

June 3 - The Detroit News

Neal Peirce discusses how cities with faltering economies can benefit from immigration.

June 3 - The Washington Post Writers Group

Once home to 20,000 Jews, the North Bund of Shanghai is facing the pressure of an expanding metropolis. Two developers are battling over how much of the historic district to save.

June 3 - The San Francisco Chronicle

BLOG POST

San Francisco - We've got a newish mayor here in SF, Gavin Newsom, who worried some of the town's liberal voting block when he beat a fellow county supervisor, Matt Gonzalez, to win the top spot. Gonzalez was a Green, way left; Newsom was perceived to be allied with the city's establishment, specifically the politically efficient machine built by former mayor Willie Brown (term-limited out) and a group always referred to in the press as "downtown developers." As far as I can tell, these are the people who want to build tall buildings.

June 2 - Anonymous

Once a commercial dinosaur, the shopping center gets a new lease on life from redevelopment, reinvestment, and a rebounding economy.

June 2 - The Indianapolis Star

Shanghai's plan to move 500,000 people into 'Disneyland developments.'

June 2 - The Guardian Unlimited