The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Trees provide an important part of the urban infrastructure. This case study examines Seattle's use of urban forests.

October 31 - Landscape Architect

The new town of Prospect in Colorado is equal parts daring, eclectic and utterly livable.

October 31 - The Town Paper

Should an agency in Colorado charged with preserving open space be allowed to borrow $115 million for additional purchases?

October 31 - The Denver Post

Herbert Muschamp comments on architect Norman Foster's design for the Hearst Corporation headquarters building in New York.

October 31 - The New York Times

Traffic problems in Southern California are expected to get worse as the population of Riverside and San Bernardino counties continues to grow.

October 31 - The Los Angeles Times

Subway lines damaged by the attacks on the World Trade Center will reopen ahead of schedule.

October 31 - The New York Times

A professor of Architecture and Planning from Germany's Bauhaus University offers the European perspective on Ls Angeles.

October 31 - The Planning Report

A number of tried and true principles are needed to guide city projects in the developing world.

October 31 - Urban Land Magazine

Baltimore planners are proposing what the Maryland Sun calls 'the future of suburban development.'

October 31 - Sun Spot

Do dense cities or sprawling suburbs make the best defense against terrorism?

October 30 - The Philadelphia Daily News

More than 50 trees gracing roadway medians in Fort Lauderdale, FL, must give way to a parade of small airplanes, part of the convention of the Aircraft Owners and Pilot Association that is anticipated to bring up to $10 million to Broward County

October 30 - Sun-Sentinel

Artist Bill Cochran links new urbanism with public art to promote diversity and join neighborhoods.

October 30 - The Town Paper

Somerville is a test case for the proposition that a community can be committed to smart growth in hard economic times.

October 30 - The Boston Globe

After two years of intense planning, Delray Beach's efforts to approve a $36 million, 59 foot high, mixed-use redevelopment complex, with 219 units, 12,300 square feet of shopping and 207 parking spaces -- came to a grinding halt.

October 30 - Sun-Sentinel

Tenants in a mobile home community in Kingston, MA say rent control is the best tool to prevent huge increases in leases on their properties.

October 30 - The Boston Globe

Analysis of the Environmental Impact Statement of the West Eugene Parkway project in Oregon warns of the environmental impacts of the project.

October 30 - Eugene Weekly

In Massachusettts, property taxes for an average single-family home increased by 5.5 percent in 2001, according the numbers released by the Massachusetts Department of Revenue.

October 30 - The Boston Globe

Paper outlines the Los Angeles, CA, business and development community's strategies to solve the affordable housing crisis at all levels: affordable housing, workforce housing and homeownership.

October 30 - Central City Association Of Los Angeles

A strong residential component in an urban mixed-use neighborhood is completing Nashville's downtown renaissance.

October 30 - Urban Land Magazine

Herbert Muschamp comments on the efforts to rebuild Lower Manhattan in New York and discusses the architectural culture of the city.

October 29 - The New York Times