The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

The design selected for the WTC site was not the same design the public saw. Both teams were forced to significantly revise their proposals...

March 4 - The Los Angeles Times

Harvard program helps create homeless shelters, low-income rental housing and home ownership programs for middle-income residents.

March 3 - Harvard University

New Urbanists make a plea for saving HOPE -- a program for converting failed public housing projects to mixed-income developments.

March 3 - New Urban News

Houston has never made small plans. Now the city is developing an ambitious plan to retrofit a city that has been shaped by sprawl.

March 3 - The Arizona Republic

A landmark map reveals a link between indigenous peoples and healthy ecosystems.

March 3 - National Geographic

Is ethnic retailing a phenomenon that lasts for only one generation?

March 3 - Urban Land Magazine

The Libeskind plan is an "excellent choice" but...

March 3 - The Washington Post

A new two-year visioning program will examine the demands of anticipated growth in the Southern California region over the next 25 years.

March 3 - The Planning Report

Water wars, common in the western U.S., have hit the East Coast.

March 3 - The New York Times

Joel Hirschhorn offers tips for smart growthers on how to stand your ground against the fine-tuned rhetoric of conservative libertarians.

March 3 - Planetizen

A daring design by landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh could transform the stretch of Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House.

March 3 - The Washington Post

FEATURE

Tips for smart growthers on how to stand your ground against the fine-tuned rhetoric of conservatives and libertarians.

March 3 - Joel Hirschhorn

Portland is considering granting the right to build a casino in exchange for funding for a baseball stadium.

March 2 - The Portland Tribune

Washington D.C. Planning Director Andrew Altman has revitalized Washington D.C's Planning Dept. He explains how.

March 2 - The Planning Report

Plans for the city-owned Navy Base call for a New Urbanist mixed-use development, and not just a high-end, 70-acre office park.

March 2 - The Philadelphia Inquirer

The people have won at Ground Zero. Other cities planning big projects should take note: Rid architecture of its elitism.

March 2 - The Christian Science Monitor

A developer with a national reputation for revitalizing urban districts in Baltimore, Houston, Charleston, S.C., and Detroit wants to come to Rochester.

March 2 - Rochester Democrat And Chronicle

Alexander Garvin, lead planner for Ground Zero, salutes Robert Moses.

March 1 - Topic Magazine

West's hard lessons, Midwest's deteriorating aquifers underline treaty delay.

March 1 - Michigan Land Use Institute

A panel of experts have criticized the Bush administration's proposed plan to research global warming saying it is unlikely to achieve President Bush's stated goals.

March 1 - The New York Times