The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>High-tech traffic signals have been developed that predict and warn drivers of possible collisions.</p>

September 2 - Discovery

<p>More and more young people are leaving Eastern Europe, leaving behind a large population of aging people. Many are predicting tough economic times as fewer workers will make it harder for governments to provide for their aging populations.</p>

September 2 - International Herald Tribune

<p>The quality of the world's soil is rapidly diminishing and many scientists are concerned that by 2050 there will not be enough arable land to grow the food to feed the steadily growing population.</p>

September 1 - The Guardian

<p>The Katrina Cottage, designed as an alternative to the ubiquitous post-Katrina FEMA trailer, is now gaining popularity nationwide as both an affordable housing solution and a quaint vacation cottage."</p>

September 1 - Asbury Park Press

<p>With developers readying to move in on the centrally-located Mumbai slum of Dharavi, residents are organizing protests to try to ensure that displaced residents are adequately compensated.</p>

September 1 - BBC

<p><em>Der Spiegel</em> interviews urban researcher Charles Landry about how cities can harness their creative classes and stay competitive in the global market.</p>

September 1 - Der Spiegel

<p>PBS's NewsHour covers the debate over the future of downtown Seattle's raised highway -- an issue that has a renewed sense of importance after the Minnesota bridge collapse.</p>

September 1 - NewsHour with Jim Lehrer

<p>"ViralKauai" posts a self-made video on YouTube pointing out the problems from overdevelopment of the beautiful island of Kauai.</p>

August 31 - YouTube

<p>An 'urban heat island' effect, fed by the city's growth, is trapping heat and making temperatures soar.</p>

August 31 - The Christian Science Monitor

<p>In a trend being seen across the country, a 316-unit apartment complex will soon replace one of the last remaining drive-in movie theaters in the state of Colorado.</p>

August 31 - The Denver Post

<p>New archaeological findings suggest that ancient Mesopotamian cities did not develop by spreading outward from a central point, but rather by clustering nearby villages into larger cities.</p>

August 31 - New Scientist

<p>As ridership increases on Portland, Oregon's light rail lines, more and more cyclists are bringing their bikes on the trains, which is causing tensions over limited space.</p>

August 31 - The Oregonian

<p>Mumbai is on the verge of becoming the second-biggest city in the world. But to get there, redevelopment will require the displacement of thousands, if not millions.</p>

August 31 - The Economist

<p>This article from the <em>Guardian</em> looks at the feasibility of putting in place a recently-announced proposal to make Britain carbon-neutral by 2050.</p>

August 31 - The Guardian

<p>Sprawling housing developments and shopping center parking lots threaten many historic battlefields, such as the site of Abraham Lincoln's famed Gettysburg Address.</p>

August 31 - The Christian Science Monitor

<p>Transportation planners in metropolitan Atlanta have drawn up a preliminary map that outlines what an ambitious 12-county transit system could look like.</p>

August 31 - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

<p>A proposed rail line connecting the Washington D.C. region to its international airport remains mired in delays. Many are blaming confusion and mixed coordination amongst the project's many stakeholders and backers.</p>

August 31 - The Washington Post

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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Last month, the Mayors’ Institute on City Design hosted a regional session in partnership with the </font><a href="http://www.caup.washington.edu/"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3" color="#800080">University of Washington</font></a><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">, and we were fortunate that the session’s organizers</font><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> were able to secure meeting space in the entry pavilion to the Seattle Art Museum’s </font><a href="http://www.seattleartmuseum.org/visit/OSP/default.asp"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3" color="#800080">Olympic Sculpture Park</font></a><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">.

August 30 - Jess Zimbabwe

<p>With limited funding for historic preservation programs, many states are looking to resident curator programs that allow people to live rent free in historic homes in exchange for preserving them.</p>

August 30 - The New York Times

<p>Engineering and environmental problems abound near China's Three Gorges Dam.</p>

August 30 - The Wall Street Journal