The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

A new report says public-private partnerships are often misunderstood and fall prey to misinformation and misperceptions.

February 3 - National Council For Public-Private Partnerships

Historic preservation? It's just so yesterday.

February 3 - Seattle Weekly

Home & Garden Television features a special series on home owners who refuse to sell, despite being surrounded development, office buildings or urban sprawl.

February 3 - Home & Garden Televsion

Chinese developers market American-style subdivisions with California themes.

February 3 - The New York Times

Mixed use projects can revitalize a city, but not all cities see the light.

February 3 - KCRW

Fred Silva of the Public Policy Institute of California analyzes the impact of Governor Davis' proposed budget and looks at what lies ahead.

February 3 - The Metro Investment Report

Hollywood Boulevard is ground zero in the new battle against crime and urban blight.

February 3 - The Los Angeles Times

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is considering new safety standards for sport utility vehicles and pickup trucks.

February 3 - The New York Times

Is it rational to try to improve the jobs-housing balance in urban areas or should people, not plans, decide where people live and work? (Link corrected.)

February 3 - Planetizen

After more than a decade, Boston's Central Artery is about to come down. What will take its place is becoming a citywide debate on land use.

February 3 - The Boston Globe

FEATURE

Is it rational to try to improve the jobs-housing balance in urban areas or should people, not plans, decide where people live and work?

February 3 - Wendell Cox

Civil engineers are stepping into the limelight and competing with architects.

February 2 - The New York Times

The "burden" of providing housing and services to low income residents is shifting to Prince George's County as DC remodels various projects with HOPE VI monies.

February 2 - Gazette Extra

The old real estate maxim "location, location, location" is being replaced with the mantra "water, water, water."

February 2 - The Rocky Mountain News

The CEO of Southern California transit agency Metrolink offers his response to three fatal commuter rail vs. auto collisions within the last few weeks.

February 2 - The Los Angeles Times

New public opinion research suggests that broad regional coalitions against urban growth might be difficult to create.

February 2 - Reason Public Policy Institute

University of Arizona cutbacks include a recommendation for elimination of the School of Landscape Architecture and School of Planning.

February 1 - The Arizona Republic

An economic boom enjoyed by Glasgow and Edinburgh will stagnate unless planning officials address transport infrastructure, abandoned land and rising house prices.

February 1 - The Scotsman

Atlanta's water privatization was the largest privatization of infrastructure in the United States. Now that the contract is cancelled, what does this say for the future of water privatization?

February 1 - Reason Public Policy Institute

At a conference titled "Great Universities and Their Cities" the the president of Yale University said that universities are "uniquely poised to strengthen urban America."

February 1 - The Cleveland Plain Dealer