The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

The APA website presents questions answered by attorney John Bredin, author of the "Common Problems with Zoning Ordinances."

January 11 - American Planning Association

Changes in Minnesota tax law, and potential for 50% return on investment prompt conversion of Duluth neighborhood to student rentals.

January 10 - Duluth News

Louisville proposes an Urban Services District that would deliver the same services to residents in Louisville's old city limits without raising taxes.

January 10 - Louisville Courier-Journal

A lifelong railroader wants to provide a private passenger rail service. It could be the nation's first privately owned commuter railroad in decades.

January 10 - New Jersey Record & Herald News

The latest online technology games are attempting to create multi-player online cities.

January 10 - Technology Review

This annual report sizes up the accomplishments and failures in the pursuit of a sustainable world economy.

January 10 - Worldwatch Institute

Reason's Bob Poole shows how outside-the-box thinking and entrepreneurial action can help Wisconsin (and other states) expand personal automobility by rebuilding decaying roads.

January 10 - Reason Public Policy Institute

As governor of Maryland, Parris Nelson Glendening, launched a visionary initiative to combat sprawl.

January 10 - The Washington Post

Critics say Quebec Square, a shopping center in northeast Denver planned for the New Urbanist redevelopment of the city's former airport is a "paean to the automobile."

January 10 - The Rocky Mountain News

The California budget crisis has gotten so bad some cities are considering charging owners of new homes annual assessments for basic services.

January 10 - The Sacramento Bee

An Op-Ed by Bruce Katz in the Baltimore Sun calls on Congress to provide states and cities necessary fiscal relief and to reverse its drift toward unfunded mandates and programmatic inflexibility.

January 10 - The Brookings Institution

Controversial television campaign links gas-guzzling sport utility vehicles (SUVs) to international terrorism.

January 9 - CBS News

Jeremy Rifkin writes that the "hydrogen economy" is within our grasp if we are committed to abandoning fossil fuels.

January 9 - E-The Environmental Magazine

Preservation magazine editors selected the year's top events in historic preservation.

January 9 - Preservation Online

Philadelphia looks to Los Angeles as a model for preservation of historic theaters.

January 9 - The Philadelphia Inquirer

Celebrity architect Rem Koolhaas' unusual design for a skyscraper in Beijing -- his largest project to date -- uses an innovative structural system.

January 9 - Newsweek

If urban areas are to improve, the public must become a more savvy consumer of good architecture.

January 9 - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co will develop the plan for a $500 million community for St. Charles County, Missouri.

January 9 - St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Tall fences are popping up all over Phoenix. The city's solution? Legalize it.

January 9 - The Arizona Republic

Luxury homes in the Aspen area are taxed as part of a plan to finance green projects.

January 9 - The Christian Science Monitor