The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

A joint planning agreement in Daytona Beach could have eased development, saved money, and encouraged smart growth.

March 11 - Daytona Beach News Journal

Critics say the $2.5 million "Smart Growth" handbook sponsored by HUD and developed by the APA will weaken property rights and hurt small businesses.

March 11 - The Cincinnati Post

Now Hollywood is also talking about secession. Will it be on the ballot in November with the Valley and harbor areas?

March 11 - The Los Angeles Times

South Ranch is a success story of a 195-home community developed and maintained by lower-income, first-time homeowners.

March 11 - The Arizona Republic

The second-largest city in the U.S. is transforming itself as it grows inward and upward. Planners praise new anti-sprawl projects inside the city.

March 11 - The New York Times

Amtrak is losing its funding and its president. Is it the end for Amtrak?

March 11 - Time

By pushing the homeless out of public spaces, these San Francisco plazas have gone from bad to worse. John King offers a case study.

March 11 - The San Francisco Chronicle

An editorial in the Wall Street Journal charges that funding at the EPA is out of control.

March 11 - Wall St. Journal

Scottsdale and Phoenix are fighting over a prime mall site worth millions in development and tax revenues.

March 11 - The Arizona Republic

Conversationists say a plan to build a golf course community would hurt efforts contain sprawl in Prince William County.

March 10 - The Washington Post

Is the state of Michigan allowing too much development on wetlands?

March 10 - The Detroit Free Press

Outside of Beijing there is an American suburb called Orange County. It is a gated community with homes American-style.

March 10 - The Los Angeles Times

What eats up more acreage in the Phildelphia suburbs than sprawling homes? New schools.

March 10 - The Philadelphia Inquirer

Amtrak's outgoing president comments on the financial and political troubles of the nation's passenger railroad.

March 9 - The San Diego Union-Tribune

According to the National Academies of Science, a $3 million computer planning model to assess the environmental impact of development in the Florida Keys may produce "misleading results."

March 9 - Sun-Sentinel

Chandler, Arizona struggles with how to keep its quaint feel as the number of diverse residents grow.

March 9 - The Arizona Republic

After 15 months of work, a mayoral task force has created a $363 million plan to breathe life into the moribund Downtown Pittsburgh retail corridor bounded by Fifth and Forbes avenues and Market Square.

March 9 - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

According to emagazine, it's thanks to the Highway lobby that we’re all now stuck in traffic.

March 9 - Emagazine

George D. Warrington will resign as Amtrak President to become the executive director of New Jersey Transit.

March 8 - The Washington Post

A former Atlanta developer now specializes in guiding other developers through tricky historic urban infill projects.

March 8 - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution