The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Dramatic increases in foreclosures in California, Colorado, Las Vegas and Phoenix are being attributed to an "overwhelming use of creative mortgage products."

August 23 - Central Valley Business Times

Developer's plans to build towers near Los Angeles' Staples Center area fits in with the vision of turning downtown Los Angeles into a sports-entertainment hub.

August 23 - The Los Angeles Times

Old amusement parks don't die, they just ... become housing.

August 23 - Grist Magazine

Where people live has been shown to relate directly to how much they exercise, as well as to excessive child obesity and the increasing incidence of diabetes. Real estate developers are being held to blame for creating auto-reliant, unhealthy towns.

August 23 - The San Francisco Chronicle

Senior researchers at the Centre for Cities discuss whether the UK should look towards Europe or the US when making urban policy.

August 23 - BBC News

New Orleans' leaders have failed the city but it's not too late.

August 22 - The Los Angeles Times

While the California Chamber of Commerce has targeted the Global Warming Solutions Act as a "job killer", predicting higher gas and electricity prices, a new report from UC Berkeley concludes that the legislation could boost the state's economy.

August 22 - University of Califonia, Berkeley

Filmmaker Spike Lee new four-hour documentary "When The Levees Broke" is the "definitive chronicle" of the year following Hurricane Katrina.

August 22 - TV Barn

Researchers at Arizona State University investigate landscape design and human-landscape interaction.

August 22 - Central Arizona - Phoenix Long Term Ecological Restoration

Alberta's surging oil economy is growing so quickly that service industries can't compete, budgets for infrastructure projects can't keep up with rising labour and material costs, and oil companies are building their own housing projects.

August 22 - The Globe and Mail

Hoping to guard against future labor shortages and protect their national identity, many countries with low birth rates are trying to entice couples into having more children with a variety of financial incentives -- including cash payments.

August 22 - Wall Street Journal via The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

What the state of Mississippi has learned in one year of rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina.

August 22 - The Los Angeles Times

The Planning Report features a candid interview with Ken Bernstein, chief of Los Angeles' newly-created Planning Department's Office of Historic Preservation.

August 22 - The Planning Report

A 67-square mile piece of empty desert in Nevada will soon explode into one of the state's biggest cities, housing more than 200,000. Senator Harry Reid pulled various strings over the last four years to obtain approval for the development.

August 22 - The Los Angeles Times

Tips on how to keep projects from getting 86'd by getting smarter than Maxwell Smart.

August 22 - Principal Broker Online

Cities are using cutting edge software combined with aerial photos to survey and assess property quickly and accurately.

August 21 - The New York Times

A new article offers details on The National Trust in Great Britain, one of the most successful land trusts on the planet.

August 21 - Principal Broker Online

Though the central city's numerous building cranes and new developments fueled population-gain assumptions, new government and regional estimates seem to confirm that intown Atlanta is experiencing a continuing renaissance.

August 21 - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Rapid economic expansion has created rampant pollution in China, and officials are determined to clean it up in time for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

August 21 - Reuters via The New York Times

Despite the challenges, one year after Hurricane Katrina, the city's spirit survives in young adults who view the uncertainty as opportunity.

August 21 - The Los Angeles Times