The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>Mexico City has announced plans to dedicate some of its transit system buses for use by women only -- a move made in response to increasing reports of women being groped on crowded buses.</p>

January 23 - Reuters

<p>Libertarian groups Cato Institute and Show-Me Institute are scrambling to convince Kansas City to end talks to consider building a light rail system in the city.</p>

January 23 - The Kansas City Star

<p>Hundred-year-old historic Sugar House buildings have been razed to make way for a controversial new development project in Salt Lake City.</p>

January 23 - Utah Stories

<p>The decay of America's infrastructure and the Bush Administration's repeated excuse, "Nobody could have foreseen..." reveals how much of America's planning tradition has been lost to free market ideology, writes Sarah Robinson.</p>

January 23 - Campaign for America's Future

<p>The launch of the Tata microcar has raised concerns about a huge magnification of traffic congestion and pollution. But without changes in the developed world, such criticisms are hypocritical, write Brendan Smith, Tim Costello and Jeremy Brecher.</p>

January 23 - Common Dreams

<p>Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has announced plans to bring the city to a zero-waste policy by 2030.</p>

January 23 - The Daily Breeze

<p>This series from <em>The Detroit Free Press</em> looks at the state of the city that is both struggling and succeeding.</p>

January 23 - The Detroit Free Press

<p>The middle eastern country of Qatar is hoping to boost its chances of securing the 2016 Olympics by building an extensive light rail system throughout its capital city of Doha.</p>

January 23 - TradeArabia

<p>Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and best-selling author David Cay Johnston talks recently on NPR's Fresh Air about government subsidies for big box stores.</p>

January 23 - NPR

<p>The city of Pasadena, California has enlisted a groups of more than 100 volunteers to walks and evaluate its streets to rate the city's walkability.</p>

January 22 - Pasadena Star-News

<p>A 2,300-unit development near a Maine lake is facing an environmental test to determine its carbon footprint. Environmentalists say the impact is too great, but developers dispute the analysis.</p>

January 22 - The Christian Science Monitor

<p>This paper shows how urban development may be considered in terms of musical categories, and associates spontaneous and informal urban actions with their analog in musical discourse: improvisation.</p>

January 22 - The Urban Reinventors Online Urban Journal

<p>While the Canadian provincial governments in British Columbia and Ontario have committed tens of billions of dollars to improving public transit, a corresponding federal investment in transit has yet to materialize.</p>

January 22 - The Globe & Mail

<p>Cleveland, which last week filed suit against 21 banks to regain revenues lost from a massive wave of foreclosures, epitomizes the extent of America's housing crisis.</p>

January 22 - The Globe & Mail

<p>The City of Venice, Italy, has just opened a new waterbus for its canals that is reserved for use by local citizens only -- part of an effort to make the tourist-heavy city more friendly to its own people.</p>

January 22 - International Herald Tribune

<p>Canals dug for oil and natural gas extraction and service may have played a significant role in the weakening of the Mississippi River Delta -- a negative effect of the oil industry's Gulf operations that worsened the impact of Hurricane Katrina.</p>

January 22 - Associated Press via Wired

<p>Controversial plans to include an elevated enclosed pedestrian bridge as part of a major development in downtown Salt Lake City will face a vote before the city's planning commission this week. The vote, however, is not expected to be the final word.</p>

January 22 - The Salt Lake Tribune

<p>America's infrastructure is struggling, but from where will the funding and political will come to fix it?</p>

January 22 - Stateline

<p>Downtown L.A. is redeveloping into a residential neighborhood. But is it baby-friendly?</p>

January 22 - L.A. Downtown News

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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial">Like many world cities, Vancouver has a growing discussion on the issue of &quot;iconic&quot; architecture, one that I&#39;ve been a part of and encouraging. This despite the fact that, like many urbanists, the word iconic actually makes me nervous. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial"> </span></p>

January 21 - Brent Toderian