The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Property rights in Venezuela's largest city continue to be strained by Caracas Mayor Juan Barreto who hopes to seize two elite, private golf courses and convert them to low-income housing to tackle Caracas' chronic housing shortage.

September 6 - The New York Times

High-rise developments are increasing across the country, refuting many critics who predicted the end of the high rise after September 11, 2001. In San Francisco, many planners and developers want to go up in a big way, despite the terror threat.

September 6 - The San Francisco Chronicle

A California architect is trying to recreate cities on a smaller scale in an effort to reduce the negative impacts of global warming facing the world's cities. He is called a 'visionary' by some, but criticized as unrealistic by others.

September 6 - The Contra Costa Times

A detailed look at Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin Fellowship offers new insights about the iconic architect's "unorthodox design process." It also uses "melodrama, spiritualism and sexual innuendo" to reveal rivalries and politics at his studio.

September 6 - The Los Angeles Times

Large housing developments popping up in Washington D.C. are gaining praise from the city's leadership for reinvigorating a once desolate area. But the developments are also garnering criticism for failing to weave residents in with the city.

September 6 - The Washington Post

Bush administration proposals to sell public land face strong opposition even from allies such as the National Rifle Association.

September 6 - The Los Angeles Times

The New York metropolitan region has the highest rate of public transit ridership in the nation, and a new Census Bureau survey reports that ridership is rising.

September 6 - The New York Times

Without a viable mass transit system and concentrated employment centers, Atlanta should reduce allowable density and build more roads, says one columnist.

September 5 - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

In the most important fuel improvement since lead was removed from gasoline a generation ago, 97% of the sulfur from diesel fuel will be removed, dramatically reducing particulate emissions, resulting in improvements to health and longevity.

September 5 - The Oakland Tribune

Prime Minister John Howard says that a lack of residentially zoned land is to blame for Australia's growing affordable housing shortage.

September 5 - Melbourne Herald Sun

Long a magnet for international talent, Hong Kong is struggling to attract overseas workers due to its worsening air quality.

September 5 - Forbes

Businesses and consumers face higher costs as a result of California's ambitious plan to counter global warming.

September 5 - The Los Angeles Times

Treating homelessness as a criminal justice issue not only represents a waste of civic resources, but fails to address the root causes of homelessness, writes Tulin Ozdeger, an attorney at the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty.

September 5 - TomPaine.com

Curtis Moore, a Republican, urges Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to sign global warming bills that could make California's approach a model for addressing the adverse impact of climate change.

September 5 - The Los Angeles Times

FEATURE

While the public and the media like to bring attention to a few controversial cases, rarely does anyone recognize the all the good that has come from the sound use of eminent domain by local officials, says David M. Lewis.

September 5 - David M. Lewis

Can a "mysterious new boss" lead Amtrak's recovery?

September 5 - The Los Angeles Times

Americans are buying bigger homes and on average, to house fewer people. Ironically, their satisfaction in housing choice has eroded somewhat over the last twenty years.

September 5 - The Los Angeles Times

Patt Morrison asks, what if everybody owned a McMansion?

September 4 - The Los Angeles Times

President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, John Holdren believes the threat from global warming is worse than previously believed and crticizes the Bush administration for its response.

September 4 - BBC News

Neither first nor second generation immigrants, those who migrated with their parents to America as children are often caught between the old world and the new.

September 4 - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution