The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

The vibrant, central Los Angeles neighborhood -- which has been referred to as "the black Greenwich Village" -- is growing in popularity.

March 23 - The Washington Post

A number of books published over the last few years show that scholars and planners have revised the "typical" view of suburbs and sprawl.

March 23 - The Chronicle of Higher Education

The planning pundits can agree on some ideas, but have both failed to address a key point, writes C. Kenneth Orski.

March 23 - The Slatin Report

Discussion over whether to replace the aging viaduct with a tunnel, and the potential impact on the city’s waterfront, will only intensify as a November advisory election approaches.

March 23 - The Seattle Stranger

Many suburbanites purchasing dream homes soon find that weak soil wreaks havoc on their foundations, yet with the high demand for housing, hundreds of homes are continually constructed in such areas.

March 23 - Phoenix New Times

At long last, Boston's Columbus Center will break ground this year. Upon completion, the 35-story mixed-use project will finally reconnect four blocks of the Back Bay and South End neighborhoods, which have long been separated by Interstate 90.

March 23 - The Boston Globe

As the city struggles with garbage collection, an all-volunteer force rises to the challenge.

March 22 - The Los Angeles Times

Officials, in a stalemate, struggle to find money for repairs - despite rising warnings of failing levees.

March 22 - The Christian Science Monitor

A clean air regulation by the Bush administration that would have allowed power plants to avoid installing new pollution controls was overturned by a federal appeals court.

March 22 - New York Times via Spartanburg Herald Journal

The Los Angeles Housing Department and its director, Mercedes Marquez, take a thorough, systematic approach to protecting renters and helping find and develop properties for workforce housing.

March 22 - The Planning Report

New York and California have the most toxic air in the nation according to a new study released by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

March 22 - The Los Angeles Times

Housing peculators are taking their profits from Southern California and investing in hotter markets in Las Vegas and Arizona.

March 22 - The Los Angeles Times

The New York City Department of City Planning releases a new, easy-to-use handbook to make zoning understandable -- at least compared to the old, arcane Zoning Resolution.

March 22 - The New York Times

Are current zoning laws in Indian cities forcing their outward growth? Are these new developments creating more strain on public services than what already exists? What will be the economic impacts of such government policies?

March 22 - International Herald Tribune

Despite years of efforts on the part of planners and governments to promote "smart growth", census data shows that the fastest-growing counties in the U.S. are "suburban, rural or a mixture of both."

March 22 - MSNBC

Three months ago Gov. Schwarzenegger announced a landmark $222 billion plan to invest in California's infrastructure. Yet the state legislature has dealt a blow to crumbling bridges and congested freeways by failing to agree on a bond measure to fund it.

March 22 - The Metro Investment Report

Environmentalists urge a Senate committee to restore and protect the five Great Lakes.

March 21 - The Chicago Tribune

Sixty million acres -- nearly one acre per five people in the country -- are unprotected, unzoned, roadless areas. Author T.A. Barron looks at efforts to protect these lands.

March 21 - The Los Angeles Times

Rutgers planning professor Wansoo Im uses powerful GIS tools and mapping software to track down public restrooms in New York City.

March 21 - The New Yorker

A common plant has the potential to become generate enough fuel to supply electricity to a third of India's villages.

March 21 - BBC