The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>Cairo's first new green space in more than 100 years has opened -- on top of a 500-year old garbage dump.</p>

May 7 - NPR

<p>In an incredible recycling operation that reduces global warming, a waste hauler is building a facility to produce Liquefied Natural Gas from methane emitted from its California landfill to fuel its garbage trucks.</p>

May 7 - The Sacramento Bee

<p>This commentary from the <em>Austin American Statesman</em> argues that the city's aim to become the country's most livable city is undercut by its low number of community gardens.</p>

May 7 - Austin American Statesman

<p>A recent survey of the planning profession in the United Kingdom has found that there likely won't be enough young planners to replaces the aging planners approaching retirement.</p>

May 7 - The Architects' Journal

<p>One of the top political bloggers in Colorado expounds against the planning profession. He lays blame for most cities' ills at their feet.</p>

May 7 - The Wash Park Prophet

<p>From unemployment to rising rents to widespread foreclosures, many major problems face Americans. In his latest column, Neal Peirce argues that planners are the ones who can formulate a broad solution.</p>

May 6 - The Denver Post

<p>Officials in Melbourne, Australia, are so frustrated with the city's lackluster planning process that they are pushing for the creation of a new planning authority -- one they hope will look at the "big picture".</p>

May 6 - The Age

<p>New York City has been expanding its stock of bicycle lanes throughout town, but as many cyclists are finding, the lanes that are supposed to be dedicated to bikes only are often overtaken by parked cars.</p>

May 6 - The New York Times

<p>The agreement trades a massive open space donation and other terms for clearance to conduct exploratory drilling off the coast.</p>

May 6 - The Planning Report

<p>Despite naysayers, Masdar City is moving forward. The goal: to be the world's first modern-day carbon-free city.</p>

May 6 - National Public Radio

<p>This commentary argues that, though it may not be called "zoning", Houston has plenty of land use restrictions and guidelines.</p>

May 6 - The Houston Chronicle

<p>In this opinion piece, Roger Snoble of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority discusses why the region's mobility would benefit from toll lanes on highways.</p>

May 6 - The Los Angeles Times

<p>This article from <em>The Washington Post</em> looks at what local municipalities are doing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.</p>

May 6 - The Washington Post

<p>In this interview from last year, the now newly-elected mayor of London, Boris Johnson, talks about the importance of biking in the city, improving public transportation, and abolishing the city's congestion pricing system.</p>

May 6 - Streetsblog

<p>A year after a tornado destroyed the city of Greensburg, Kansas, the city and its residents are bounding back in an economically and environmentally sustainable way.</p>

May 6 - NPR

<p>The Transit Coalition's Bart Reed and USC planning Professor Peter Gordon debate transit and traffic in L.A. in this five-part point-counterpoint series.</p>

May 6 - The Los Angeles Times

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<p> On the bus this morning I was handed a survey asking me to detail my satisfaction with the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority&#39;s public transit system. As a daily bus commuter, I was more than happy to spend my two cents, but I&#39;m a bit skeptical that those two cents will really do anything.

May 5 - Nate Berg

<p>Small car sales, especially hybrids and subcompacts, are jumping while pickups and SUV sales plummet, contributing to a reduction in gas consumption. The $3.50 gallon mark may have been key to influencing vehicle selection as well as driver behavior.</p>

May 5 - The New York Times

<p>In the mid-1980s New Zealand sold its national rail assets to private industry in hopes of developing a profitable, efficient rail network. With deteriorating infrastructure and a desire for greener transit, the government has decided to buy it back.</p>

May 5 - The New Zealand Herald

<p>Suburban Salt Lake cities are squabbling over who should host a possible station for the area's new commuter rail system. The city seen as the best choice doesn't want a station, while another city is doing all it can to lure the system.</p>

May 5 - The Salt Lake Tribune