The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

In what could be the largest single shopping center portfolio offer in history, CalPERS is selling 92 properties with a value of $2.8 billion.

January 27 - National Real Estate Investor

Howitzers, explosives, hydrogen-filled balloons, and other solutions exist to prevent avalanches and landslides.

January 27 - Wired

A man attempting suicide parked his SUV in front of a Los Angeles commuter train, then jumped out in time to watch the three-train pile-up that killed 11 and injured 180.

January 27 - The Los Angeles Times

Jem Cohen's movie "Chain" demonstrates the bland, alienating anonymity of contemporary privatized urban landscapes.

January 26 - The Guardian Unlimited

A new GAO report explores improving information on transit projects' benefits and costs and increasing accountability for results.

January 26 - U.S. General Accounting Office

Architect Philip Johnson died at age 98 in his home in New Canaan, Connecticut.

January 26 - The San Diego Union-Tribune

Tennessee town and its university see more students and year-round residents moving to the urban center.

January 26 - Clarksville Leaf Chronicle

Want to improve your downtown? Consider Madonna, and how she reinvents herself every few years.

January 26 - The Sentinel

An upcoming U.S. Supreme Court case ruling could have a major impact on preservation and community revitalization.

January 26 - National Trust For Historic Preservation

Rather than just building 'seats', we should create neighborhood-centered joint-use schools.

January 26 - The Planning Report

In Maryland, development has sprawled into prime farmland targeted for preservation with public tax dollars.

January 26 - The Baltimore Sun

Panel proposes a dedicated funding stream from real estate tax for affordable housing.

January 26 - The Washington Post

Architects, planners, and environmentalists assista a community to recover from the devastating impact of the Asian tsunami.

January 26 - Nature

First Illinois, now New Jersey. Will privatizing toll roads become the next new trend?

January 26 - The Philadelphia Inquirer

BLOG POST

<img src="http://www.planetizen.com/tech/files//falcon.jpg" alt=""width="200" align="right" border="0" hspace="2" vspace="2" />So I'm reading the January 7 issue of the journal <em>Science</em> the other day -- because that's the kind of fun I have -- and I noticed two stories that looked related to me, though apparently not to the editors, who separated them. <em>Science</em> is subscription only on the Web, but I'll put links to the citations, at least.<br /> <br /> The first was from the journal's NetWatch page, where they highlight cool stuff around the Web.

January 25 - Anonymous

In looking to adopt some of the radical approaches employed in London to handle homelessness, Canadian cities like Toronto are courting controversy.

January 25 - The Globe and Mail

The Brookings Institution reports on the progress and success of public housing reform and vouchers.

January 25 - The Brookings Institution

Vibrant mixed neighborhood, or big box condo complexes - residents wait to see what's in store.

January 25 - The Seattle Post-Intelligencer

A high school student tracks the effects of gentrification in her Los Angeles neighborhood with digital pictures and a movie.

January 25 - The Los Angeles Times

Why are Americans so good at making movies and software but so bad at building cars and cities?

January 25 - ChangeThis