The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

The wetlands of Southern Iraq, the largest wetland ecosystem in the Middle East and considered to be the Biblical location of the Garden of Eden, could disapper in five years.

April 1 - United Nations Environment Programme

A builder hired private investigators to go undercover, gain trust, and secretly tape city officlals for two years.

March 31 - The Star-Ledger

A former mill town, Post St. Joe, FL. is now a top beach destination.

March 31 - CNN

Scotland has dramatically modified land ownership laws by entitling small-scale tenant farmers to buy the land they rent.The new law will probably change the way Scotland is farmed and hiked

March 31 - The Los Angeles Times

The future of architecture includes interactive structures that change shape.

March 31 - The Globe and Mail

A suspect featured on 'America's Most Wanted' is arrested by police after not paying his fare on L.A.'s Blue Line.

March 31 - The Los Angeles Times

War can be devastating to the environment but sometimes nature benefits from human conflict.

March 31 - The Economist

Sunday was the first day of the national American Planning Association conference in Denver, Colorado. 5,000 are expected.

March 31 - Planetizen

Jersy City is hip and prospering.

March 31 - The New York Times

A scorecard system being discussed in Denver offers a market-based alternative to zoning for encouraging smart growth.

March 31 - The Denver Post

General Motors Canada has pulled an ad campaign suggesting that transit buses are full of "creeps and weirdos."

March 31 - The Vancouver Sun

FEATURE

How government policies have inadvertently sabotaged public transit.

March 31 - Michael Lewyn

A documentary explores the life of the great American architect Louis I. Kahn.

March 30 - The New York Times

Homeless advocates say New York City's estimate of 1,780 homeless living in the streets of Manhattan is too low.

March 30 - The New York Times

Requiring Los Angeles housing developers to include low-income units is good policy, a report concludes.

March 30 - The Los Angeles Times

The Charleston Council of 2002 featured an open discussion on the issue of style and building.

March 30 - The Town Paper

After 16 years of drafting, spending, and defending, part of the Big Dig opens Sunday, stoking an urban revolution.

March 30 - The Christian Science Monitor

Nearly all of Md. 32 to the south and east of the "new town" of Columbia has been upgraded to a freeway - should the section west and north of Columbia also be upgraded?

March 29 - The Baltimore Sun

Robert Norfleet, a retired banker, asks if local governments in the Richmond, Virginia metropolitan area can cooperate across jurisdictional boundaries, even when conflicts and disputes arise.

March 29 - Richmond Times-Dispatch

Military installations are being threatened by uncontrolled land development and states are reacting with a number of sound approaches.

March 29 - National Governor's Association