The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>A California man reduced his waste to zero, so he canceled his garbage collection. But garbage collection is required in his city, so the local government is suing.</p>

February 4 - The Examiner

<p>Orion magazine looks at the lifestyle of nomadic utopian cyclists, who are cranking up for a post-petroleum future.</p>

February 4 - Orion

<p>The settlement comes after a group sued to have $1.2 billion restored to the transit fund after the state shifted funds to balance the budget, paying for transportation-related programs that normally would have been paid from the general fund.</p>

February 4 - The Sacramento Bee

<p>Los Angeles needs to change its carpool lanes to high-occupancy toll lanes, according to this editorial.</p>

February 4 - The Daily News

<p>A new regional planning idea is looking to reduce energy use and greenhouse emissions.</p>

February 3 - New Urban News

<p>Amid the many negative impacts from the fallout of the subprime crisis is an emerging and disturbing trend: foreclosed homeowners are trashing their properties on their way out the door.</p>

February 3 - AlterNet

<p>A new speech by the Prince of Wales this week warns of a "rash" of "carbuncles" destroying tourism assets.</p>

February 3 - INTBAU News

<p>This article from <em>The Atlantic</em> looks at the rising troubles experienced in the nation's suburbs since the foreclosure explosion.</p>

February 3 - The Atlantic

<p>Sustainability is catching on in more cities than New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago. Ventura City Manager Rick Cole explains how his city's land use practice can impact California's climate change efforts.</p>

February 3 - VerdeXchange News

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<p>I&#39;ve always hated songs about cities, particularly mawkish anthems like &quot;New York, New York,&quot; &quot;I Left My Heart in San Francisco,&quot; and the ghastly &quot;I Love L.A.&quot; Lyricists seem to dream them up when there&#39;s nothing else to sing about. Indeed, cities are the setting for life, not the object of it. Singing about them is like performing a play about a theater. </p>

February 2 - Josh Stephens

<p>The world's largest low emission zone will come into effect next week in London.</p>

February 2 - Reuters via Environmental News Network

<p>As a part of its special series of reports on the Alberta tar sands, the Globe &amp; Mail outlines the extreme environmental impacts of the development.</p>

February 2 - The Globe and Mail

<p>London, Ontario's new urban designer describes and debunks some common misconceptions about urban design.</p>

February 2 - London (Ontario) Free Press

<p><em>Reason</em>'s Robert Poole responds to the report from the National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission and argues that despite its many good ideas, the engineer's perspective should be replaced with that of an economist.</p>

February 2 - Reason

<p>How do Utah &amp; the West support population growth without sacrificing living standards?</p>

February 2 - Utah Stories

<p>A grad student in Muncie, Indiana has taken citizen involvement in traffic calming to a whole new level. He was jailed 10 hours for painting a crosswalk near his home. Now free from jail, he plans to complete the three other crosswalks.</p>

February 1 - WRTV - Indianapolis, IN

<p><em>Forbes</em> has released its list of the most miserable cities in America. Detroit is at the top.</p>

February 1 - Forbes

<p>Los Angeles, Portland, and New York City provide interesting case studies into the ways that city governments are building a more sustainable life for their residents.</p>

February 1 - The Planning Report

<p>A group of French academics have written an open letter decrying the latest in a long string of plans to deal with the working-class Parisian suburbs, which saw riots in 2005.</p>

February 1 - Truthout

<p>New York's Traffic Congestion Mitigation Commission has approved the city's congestion pricing plans. It will head to the City Council next.</p>

February 1 - The New York Times