The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>The effort to repeal Mecklenburg County's half-cent transit tax was defeated by a wide margin at the polls on Tuesday.</p>

November 8 - The Charlotte Observer

<p>Rebuilding and redevelopment continues is New Orleans, with a wide variety of architectural styles creating a patchwork in the city. Some say this free-form redevelopment is good for the city, but others are calling it a mistake.</p>

November 8 - The New York Times

<p>Ambitious effort to restore the Florida Everglades faces lack of funds and political complications.</p>

November 7 - The New York Times

<p>Take a tour inside what may be the skinniest house ever built -- the bite-sized answer to the McMansion.</p>

November 7 - Ah Boon

<p>Volunteer-run neighborhood councils in Los Angeles are gaining political power and showing what a new kind of politics could look like.</p>

November 7 - The Los Angeles Times

<p>Oregon voters yesterday approved Measure 49 -- a property rights initiative that scales back the development rights landowners were granted by the state's Measure 37 in 2004.</p>

November 7 - The Oregonian

<p>Despite loft conversions and a rash of casino developments, Detroit continues to lose population and seems unlikely to recover any time soon, writes Lisa Rochon.</p>

November 7 - The Globe and Mail

<p>Cities across the world are investing in their libraries as opportunities to create world-class architecture and tourist attractions.</p>

November 7 - The Toronto Star

<p>The government in the UK has announced plans to create "healthy towns" that encourage exercise through urban design. Is this idea going too far to control peoples' activity?</p>

November 7 - Spiked

<p>In this interview, civil rights leader and environmentalist Van Jones talks about the interconnections between urban sprawl, racism and the "prison-industrial complex".</p>

November 7 - AlterNet

<p>The city of Toronto has approved design guidelines for future development of parking lots within the city. The guidelines call for more trees and better drainage, but as of now are not included in any mandatory city policies.</p>

November 7 - The Toronto Star

<p>After a <em>New York Times</em> real estate article points out that on top of being one of America's most livable cities it is also one of its most affordable, there could be mass migration to Portland.</p>

November 7 - The New York Times

<p>Architect Frank Gehry is sued for providing "deficient design services" for MIT's Strata Center.</p>

November 6 - Abhijeet Chavan

<p>The St. Joe Company appears to be streamlining its real estate operations as work begins on a new regional airport that could open up the The Florida Peninsula.</p>

November 6 - The Slatin Report

<p>As federal and state funds dry up, beachfront communities seek their own solutions to protect against coastal erosion and storms.</p>

November 6 - The New York Times

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<p>The strike has begun! Negotiations have broken down between the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, forcing Hollywood&#39;s TV and movie writers into a strike. <br /><br />What, you may be asking yourself, does this have to do with planning? Well, to put it bluntly, this strike is arguably the most important opportunity in American history for the widespread development of infrastructure and public works projects.<br />

November 6 - Nate Berg

<p>With a glut of existing development already completed or underway, another major redevelopment is being planned on nine city blocks in Miami.</p>

November 6 - The Miami Herald

<p>Fifteen months after Israeli bombers destroyed Lebanon's coastal oil tanks, the damage to ecosystems, economies and human health remain "devastating."</p>

November 6 - Inter Press Service

<p>Citing the need for more public input, rebuilding Boston's Storrow Drive tunnel is going to take longer than expected. Local residents and officials raise concerns about safety risks and rising costs.</p>

November 6 - The Boston Globe

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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">I first learned of </font><a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ockham's%20razor"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3" color="#800080">Okham’s Razor</font></a><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> in an undergraduate economics class. Also called the Law of Parsimony, the idea states that the simplest of two competing ideas or theories is preferable to the more complicated one. </font></p>

November 6 - Samuel Staley