Next City interview of a preeminent expert and author on planning and housing http://nextcity.org/daily/entry/interview-arthur-c.-nelson-winners-and-losers-in-housing-market The Reshaping Metropolitan America author talks[Read More...]

. . . says Atlantic Cities article. http://www.theatlanticcities.com/jobs-and-economy/2013/05/forgotten-urban-transportation-problem-we-should-be-trying-fix/5672/ Freight is crippling metro areas, but it’s rarely part of city planning.

http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/may/21/tp-lifestyles-of-gen-y-not-as-retailers-assumed/ A lot of popular assumptions about the Generation Y are dead wrong, experts said at an Urban Land Institute[Read More...]

http://www.architectmagazine.com/urban-design/spacial-politics-and-food.aspx Food service is crowding out retail in well-to-do parts of America’s downtowns, while poor city areas suffer from a[Read More...]

http://theoldhousefair.weebly.com/ About the Old House Fair, held each June in historic South Park neighborhood near Balboa Park in San Diego,[Read More...]

http://voiceofsandiego.org/2013/05/16/a-case-of-planning-fatigue-in-city-heights/ There’s plenty of money for studying how to improve City Heights streets, but not much for actually making improvements.

Former South Carolina congressman Bob Inglis bucking the Tea Party re climate change science, from NPR http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/09/26/161824667/new-groups-argue-a-conservative-take-on-climate-change Two new Republican[Read More...]

http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/may/17/preservation-soho-awards/ Preservation’s a thankless but rewarding occupation for 31st annual award winners

From Pacific Standard: http://www.psmag.com/culture/why-is-china-stealing-cities-towns-and-buildings-57969/ Hallstatt, Austria, is in China. So is the Eiffel Tower, the Taj Mahal, Christ the Redeemer,[Read More...]

From NY Observer http://observer.com/2013/05/pathfail/ The Port Authority used to set records in good ways. The George Washington Bridge was a[Read More...]