The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>Plans to redevelop New York City's West Side rail yards are underwhelming, according to this review.</p>

November 25 - The New York Times

<p>A landowner who insisted on selling his property to a local municipality at the market rate had his land seized through eminent domain. Many are calling for a condemnation of the city's action.</p>

November 25 - The Denver Post

<p>Plans to build a supermarket in a small English town have put locals on the defensive, arguing the market will destroy the area's character. Company officials say the market will revive the town.</p>

November 25 - BBC

<p>Environmentalists and hunters have teamed up to fight against developers of a geothermal power plant who want to use the water from a California aquifer that sustains a large swath of vegetation and an active hunting ground.</p>

November 24 - The Los Angeles Times

<p>On November 21st, Britain's "No Music Day" showed why taking a break from ubiquitous music in public spaces is a badly-needed means of reclaiming the ability to actually listen to your surroundings, writes Kevin Berger.</p>

November 24 - Salon

<p>With residents pushing for new rules to prevent tear-downs, a measure to temporarily restrict construction of new homes goes before the city council.</p>

November 24 - The News & Observer

<p>Border walls along the U.S.-Mexico are being called out by environmentalists for creating negative impacts on the area's environment and local ecology.</p>

November 24 - The New York Times

<p>In the arid and frequently drought-stricken southwestern city of Phoenix, plans are moving forward to build a 125 acre water park.</p>

November 24 - The Guardian

<p>The university's plans, which are subject to approval next week, are strongly opposed by local residents, who city decades of poor relations with the elite institution.</p>

November 23 - The Guardian Unlimited

<p>Governor Jon Corzine finally explained that a key strategy to reduce New Jersey's staggering $32 billion debt will be to substantially increase tolls on the 3 major state toll roads, using the revenue to form a public corporation to issue bonds.</p>

November 23 - The New York Times

<p>A major impact of the tumbling real estate market has the developers of an unfinished $224 million mixed-use project in Florida walking away from their project. The developers have no plans to fight a foreclosure suit against them.</p>

November 23 - Daily Business Review

<p>Detroit city officials have approved a plan to recycle the city's waste sludge into fertilizer.</p>

November 23 - The Detroit Free Press

BLOG POST

<p>Over the last few weeks, I have participated in two panels on Social and Environmental Sustainability. The first one was at the Ringling School of Art’s &quot;Designing for Life&quot; conference, the second was at BuildBoston where Adaptive Environments organized a day long symposium on Universal Design. In both cases, design took center stage. Design as a means towards change, and design as a business force. This is good news for advocates of Universal Design. </p>

November 23 - Barbara Knecht

<p>Mexico City and its 20 million people get water from many sources, some nearly 100 miles away. The city has announced plans to achieve water self-sufficiency by 2020, a task sure to be a challenge.</p>

November 23 - Treehugger

<p>This article from <em>Metropolis Magazine</em> takes a look at the redevelopment (or not) in New Orleans today.</p>

November 22 - Metropolis Magazine

<p>Mixed use developments are reeling in residents, but struggle to attract retailers.</p>

November 22 - The New York Times

<p>A vortex of winds has concentrated garbage and plastic flotsam into a huge island of garbage in the middle of the Pacific Ocean -- an unintentionally man-made mass that is growing at a rapid pace.</p>

November 22 - The Tyee

<p>In 2008, Maryland voters will consider a plan to allow slot gambling machines in the state. But local zoning regulations could trump the state law, giving communities control over whether the machines are allowed or not.</p>

November 22 - The Baltimore Sun

<p>The dedication of a piece of public art in San Francisco inspires this reflection on the not-so-welcoming arms of the city's progressive population to public art projects in the past.</p>

November 22 - The San Francisco Chronicle

<p>Vancouver has been named one of the world's "smartest" cities in a recent list, which also includes cities from Australia, Ohio, Scotland, and India.</p>

November 21 - The Vancouver Sun