The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

As Tempe, Arizona moves ahead with plans for more urban style growth, its neighbor Phoenix is not thrilled.

October 1 - East Valley Tribune

Across the country home sales are slowing and prices are dropping. The trend is causing most production home builders scale back their development plans. However, Lennar views the slowdown differently.

October 1 - The Miami Herald

A new high-rise mall on San Francisco's Market Street may provide a model for reviving other downtown shopping districts.

October 1 - The Los Angeles Times

A proposed commercial development on the Hawaiian Island of Kaua'i has been denied by a county planning commission. The site is located in a flood zone and construction would require the removal of many exotic trees. The developer plans to sue.

October 1 - The Garden Island

Fractured transportation plans from different Toronto area municipalities make regional transit planning a challenge.

October 1 - The Toronto Star

As the U.S. population ticks ever closer to the 300 million mark -- 299,800,000-plus and counting -- many environmentalists worry that the rising numbers will amplify existing environmental problems.

September 30 - The Christian Science Monitor

A Rhode Island Planning Board has approved regulations requiring developers to build affordable houses in all projects over 6 units.

September 30 - The Providence Journal

In New Jersey, developers have broken ground on a housing development created with the interests of the predominantly Orthodox Jewish community in mind.

September 30 - The New York Times

As more and more African's move to cities, experts fear the growth of huge slum-filled mega cities, unable to meet the demand for basic services.

September 30 - Business in Africa

Contrary to American housing markets, Canadian housing sales have continued to grow this year.

September 30 - Times Colonist

A local police call in Port St. Lucie Florida reporting one man chasing another with a machete led to a multi-state federal investigation of a sophisticated ring that recruited marijuana growers with the promise of free home financing.

September 29 - TCPalm

Infrastructure as tourism: The massive, 1.4-mile long Three Gorges Dam is rapidly becoming a hot tourist destination, with three reputable cruise lines now visiting the dam.

September 29 - The New York Times Style Magazine

With private car ownership increasing, can the bicycle making a comeback in China?

September 29 - China Daily

A public awareness tour sponsored by the Indiana government is trying to put child care on the agenda of economic development agencies.

September 29 - Fort Wayne Journal Gazette

Post 9/11, America is entering a bold new era of skyscraper construction.

September 29 - The San Francisco Chronicle

A recent editorial encourages the Washington State legislature to take the first step towards highway congestion pricing.

September 29 - The Seattle Times

The results of a recent statewide growth visioning exercise show a continuing desire to reign in sprawl by focusing development in urban areas along transit lines.

September 29 - The Baltimore Sun

Looking to its past as a quaint post-World War II suburb, the now-urban village of Ballston in Arlington, Virginia, is considering an unconventional approach to improving economic and social activity: miniature golf.

September 29 - Arlington Connection

Architectural award bestowed upon an eco-friendly California McMansion in a neighborhood of bungalows.

September 29 - The Los Angeles Times

The majority of London residents oppose a proposal to grant increased power to the city's mayor to more tightly control the planning process.

September 29 - eGov Monitor