The Daily Source of Urban Planning News
World's Most Expensive Cities Named
<p>Moscow is the world's most expensive city, at 35% more expensive than living in new York. Asuncion in Paraguay is the least expensive city for the fifth year running.</p>
Designing The Car Of The Future
<p>The car of the future may not come from Detroit but from NASA, MIT's Media Lab or Silicon Valley.</p>
Lack Of Affordable Housing Hits Migrant Workers Hardest
<p>A high supply of jobs is bringing large amounts of migrant workers into the Pacific Northwest. But few affordable housing options exist, leaving many with no place to go.</p>
Google To Fund Plug-in Hybrid Car Development
<p>Internet search giant Google will give $10 million to support the development of plug-in hybrid cars.</p>
Flood Prospect Sparks Violent Opposition To Dam Project
<p>Plans to build a dam on the Nile River have incited protests, outrage, and even violence as Sudanese villagers demonstrate their opposition to a project that would flood them out of their ancient homeland.</p>
Indoor Activities Cut Time Kids Spend Outdoors
<p>A number of studies have detailed the decreasing amount of time children spend outdoors -- a revelation that is prompting policy makers to look for ways to pull kids away from indoor activities such as video games and the Internet.</p>
New York Plans To Pay The Poor
<p>In a move to address poverty in the city, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has started a program that will pay low-income residents for doing things perceived to break the cycle of poverty, such as visiting a doctor and attending school regularly.</p>
Shaping America's Cities: Part 1 - A Debate Over Sprawl
<p>Author Robert Bruegmann and activist Gloria Ohland debate over urban sprawl.</p>
Amazon Tribe Looks To Use Google Earth To Prevent Logging
<p>A Brazilian tribe is in talks with Google to use its satellite imaging program to monitor and prevent illegal logging in the tribal reservation of more than 600,000 acres in the Amazon rainforest.</p>
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"I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help you"
<p>Local officials are rightfully leery of someone who shows up at their doorstep and proclaims, "I'm from the U.S. Government ... and I'm here to help you." That probably goes double for the Environmental Protection Agency. But when a team arrives from the EPA’s Smart Growth office, rather than scrambling to bar the door, local officials greet them with open arms — because they really do provide essential assistance.</p>
Are The Cities Of The Future Destined To Be Mega-slums?
<p>By 2030, an estimated 2 billion of the 5 billion people who will be living in cities will live in slums, primarily in Africa and Asia.</p>
World's Most Powerful Dam Proposed For Africa
<p>Industrialists in Africa are pushing for the creation of a giant dam on the Congo River that would generate enough energy for the half-billion people on the continent without electricity. The huge project has been called "a Marshall Plan for Africa."</p>
U.S. Cities Follow Californian Opposition To Wal-Mart
<p>Many cities are following the lead of various municipalities up and down California that are using any and all possible powers to prevent Wal-Marts from moving in. But despite the growing opposition, business is booming.</p>
Bostoners Most Likely To Walk To Work
<p>Commuters in Boston are the most likely city dwellers to walk to work, but are second-to-last among commuters in 50 American cities to carpool, according to Census data.</p>
Michael Bloomberg: Chairman Of The Big Apple
<p>New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg views citizens as customers and city workers as assets. How does this translate into a new city hall transparency and vastly improved city services?</p>
Documentary Follows Suburban Development Fight In Austin
<p>"The Unforeseen," a new documentary, takes a thoughtful look at the various interests at stake in the development of sprawling real estate in Austin.</p>
The Corruption Of Smart Growth
<p>With many developers touting their various projects as "smart growth", the term is losing much of it meaning.</p>
Seattle Grapples With Tree Losses
<p>A rash of illegal tree cutting in Seattle has prompted local officials to act on the city's decreasing amount of trees and canopy cover. Tree-planting efforts hope to build the canopy back from less than its current city coverage of less than 20%.</p>
The Longest Escalator System In The World
<p>Hong Kong's unique system of escalators, moving walkways, and pedestrian bridges has transformed the neighborhoods it connects.</p>
New US Embassy In Baghdad Looks Like Suburban Sprawl
<p>LA Times architectural critic Christopher Hawthorne examines the depressing-looking new and massive 104-acre U.S. embassy compound being constructed in Iraq within the 'Green Zone'.</p>
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