The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez takes the city's Deputy Mayor for Transportation to task for driving a Hummer. 'It's smaller than a Yukon.'</p>

January 22 - The Los Angeles Times

<p>Was pre-Katrina New Orleans unable to support its former population, and thus now -- as a smaller city -- better-positioned economically? Or is it in danger of losing its cultural identity without that population?</p>

January 22 - The New York Times

<p>This article from <em>The Phoenix</em> looks at Boston's reputation for being a walkable city, why that reputation is fading, and who is helping to bring it back.</p>

January 22 - The Phoenix

<p>Toronto, Ontario, is on its way to meeting a goal of adding 500,000 residents by 2031. Many see the dense growth as a positive move for Canada's most populous city, but trading sprawl for compact growth is creating strain on its infrastructure.</p>

January 22 - The Toronto Star

<p>Land rights and high costs are proving to be major hurdles in Kansas City's bid to build a 27-mile light rail system.</p>

January 22 - Kansas City Business Journal

<p>Philip Langdon covers two new urban projects, Holiday neighborhood in Boulder, CO, and Beerline B in Milwaukee, WI, that achieve an intriguing mix of approaches and styles.</p>

January 22 - New Urban News

FEATURE

Airports connect us to the world, generate enormous economic benefits, and provide an important first impression of a city. It's high time the airports shed their bad rap and are planned not as nuisances, but assets.

January 22 - Ryan N. Hall

<p>The long and convoluted tale of the demise of a container port and the planned rebirth of a piece of Brooklyn waterfront.</p>

January 22 - The New York Observer

<p>There are many things to like about Boston, but this article lists of 27 things to not like about it, including inconvenient bus routes, short subway operating hours, and a lack of street signs.</p>

January 22 - The Phoenix

<p>A New York chef lays in on the policy failures, lost local economies, damaged environments, and the bland food that have resulted from the U.S. Farm Bill, which will have its every-half-decade facelift in Congress this year.</p>

January 21 - The New York Times

<p>In a rerun of a failed 1999 plan to build a high-rise near the city's Town Lake, officials in Austin, Texas, are looking to increase downtown density. The City is hoping this try works, but the original plan's opponents are still opposed.</p>

January 21 - The Austin Chronicle

<p>In the face of an "inaccurate claim" that city neighbors are less friendly than their suburban counterpart, Robert Steuteville of <em>New Urban News</em> provides comments on the University of California study "Social Interaction and Urban Sprawl".</p>

January 21 - New Urban News

<p>The City of Santa Cruz and its University of California campus are struggling to come to terms with the university’s ambitious plans for growth and its impact on the city.</p>

January 21 - The New York Times

<p>According to Census data and growth projections, Texas appears to be on track to gain between two and four seats in the U.S. House of Representatives when the seats are reallocated in 2010. The rise in population will also increase federal funding.</p>

January 21 - The Houston Chronicle

<p>Growth, education and jobs/wages/employment are the top concerns identified in public policy survey conducted recently by Boise State University's social science research center.</p>

January 20 - BSU Social Science Research Center

<p>An unlikely group of Republicans and Democrats, the Union Sportsman's Alliance, will be formed on Jan. 23 to protect lands in the Rocky Mountain West for hunting and fishing that are largely threatened because of energy exploration.</p>

January 20 - The Washington Post

<p>Residents of Picher, Oklahoma, must leave the town contaminated by lead and zinc mines. Although contaminated since the 1970s, only recent threats of cave-ins have convinced hold-outs to leave.</p>

January 20 - The Washington Post

<p>The design of schools should account for advances in technology and consider how those changes will affect the way students learn, according to learning advocates who discuss the future of school design in this article from the <em>BBC</em>.</p>

January 20 - BBC

<p>Fast-food chicken baron Albert Okura purchased Route 66 town of Amboy, home to a well known landmark of roadside architecture.</p>

January 20 - The Los Angeles Times

<p>The Pittsburg, California, City Council has unanimously approved an extension of the city's urban growth boundary to include 1,600 more acres of foothills. This extension was approved by voters in 2005, but some argue the initiative was deceptive.</p>

January 19 - The Contra Costa Times