The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

A former mill town, Post St. Joe, FL. is now a top beach destination.

March 31 - CNN

Scotland has dramatically modified land ownership laws by entitling small-scale tenant farmers to buy the land they rent.The new law will probably change the way Scotland is farmed and hiked

March 31 - The Los Angeles Times

The future of architecture includes interactive structures that change shape.

March 31 - The Globe and Mail

A suspect featured on 'America's Most Wanted' is arrested by police after not paying his fare on L.A.'s Blue Line.

March 31 - The Los Angeles Times

War can be devastating to the environment but sometimes nature benefits from human conflict.

March 31 - The Economist

Sunday was the first day of the national American Planning Association conference in Denver, Colorado. 5,000 are expected.

March 31 - Planetizen

Jersy City is hip and prospering.

March 31 - The New York Times

A scorecard system being discussed in Denver offers a market-based alternative to zoning for encouraging smart growth.

March 31 - The Denver Post

General Motors Canada has pulled an ad campaign suggesting that transit buses are full of "creeps and weirdos."

March 31 - The Vancouver Sun

FEATURE

How government policies have inadvertently sabotaged public transit.

March 31 - Michael Lewyn

A documentary explores the life of the great American architect Louis I. Kahn.

March 30 - The New York Times

Homeless advocates say New York City's estimate of 1,780 homeless living in the streets of Manhattan is too low.

March 30 - The New York Times

Requiring Los Angeles housing developers to include low-income units is good policy, a report concludes.

March 30 - The Los Angeles Times

The Charleston Council of 2002 featured an open discussion on the issue of style and building.

March 30 - The Town Paper

After 16 years of drafting, spending, and defending, part of the Big Dig opens Sunday, stoking an urban revolution.

March 30 - The Christian Science Monitor

Nearly all of Md. 32 to the south and east of the "new town" of Columbia has been upgraded to a freeway - should the section west and north of Columbia also be upgraded?

March 29 - The Baltimore Sun

Robert Norfleet, a retired banker, asks if local governments in the Richmond, Virginia metropolitan area can cooperate across jurisdictional boundaries, even when conflicts and disputes arise.

March 29 - Richmond Times-Dispatch

Military installations are being threatened by uncontrolled land development and states are reacting with a number of sound approaches.

March 29 - National Governor's Association

Broward County officials are concerned about the overdevelopment along the county's 23-mile shoreline.

March 29 - Sun-Sentinel

Especially relevant in light of current world events, this essay examines Byzantine and Islamic building codes that have provided the legal andcultural foundations of Mediterranean urbanism.

March 29 - The Town Paper