The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>Even with variety of housing options for seniors, the state still has a long waiting list for units affordable to low-income people.</p>

November 29 - The New York Times

<p>Profound demographic, economic, and cultural forces are reshaping the nation, and have major significance for urbanization in America, says Robert Puentes, a fellow at the Brookings Institution.</p>

November 29 - The Brookings Institution

FEATURE

By hosting public outreach sessions and design clinics with registered landscape architects, Atlanta-area non-profit Park Pride is giving communities an active role in creating a new vision for their neighborhood greenspaces.

November 29 - Nandita Godbole

<p>A new Canadian company has matched GPS-coordinated street-level camcorder shots of Toronto with mapping software to enable a real-life horizontal view of any coordinate, allowing users to preview a destination before visiting.</p>

November 29 - The Globe and Mail

<p>A landscape district featuring restored historic gardens is planned for downtown Columbia, South Carolina. The project will serve as a critical "connecting point" for several downtown areas undergoing revitalization.</p>

November 29 - The State

<p>Los Angeles water officials are restoring year-round flow to 62 miles of the Lower Owens River, with hope that the waterway will once again support plant and wildlife and become an eco-tourist attraction for ailing Inyo County.</p>

November 28 - The Los Angeles Times

A YouTube video features a nine-part talk given by Andres Duany in 1991 in San Antonio, Texas, after visting downtown and RiverWalk.

November 28 - You Tube

<p>Plans for the Chinese capital's metro system fall just shy of 350 miles of track over 19 lines, which would surpass London's Underground by 2020.</p>

November 28 - China Daily

<p>Cities are competing for a mobile but vital part of the workforce: the 25- to 34-year olds.</p>

November 28 - The New York Times

<p>Travel writer Matt Gross reports on the state of tourism in New Orleans.</p>

November 28 - The New York Times

<p>Bruce Katz, Director of the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institute, highlights the need for set of new policies for managing the complexity of 21st century cities.</p>

November 28 - The Brookings Institution

<p>As the ranks of Mexico's rich swell, the haves and the have-nots in Mexico City are living increasingly separate lives. Walled cities are being built to separate the upper and lower classes in Mexico's capital, while bullet-proof evening wear is selling briskly.</p>

November 28 - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

<p>A proposal to charge drivers $7 for entering Manhattan below 60th Street, previously rejected by Mayor Bloomberg, is being floated again by a diverse group of a civic and community groups.</p>

November 28 - The New York Times

<p>A new report suggests that Vancouver, widely regarded as the world's "most livable" city, is facing a growing population of working poor, inaccessibly expensive housing, and increasing social inequities among minority groups.</p>

November 28 - The Tyee

<p>Voters in Michigan and elsewhere are increasingly supportive of public expenditures for transit and open space, but many public officials don't seem to be paying much attention to shifting taxpayer priorities.</p>

November 28 - Michigan Land Use Institute

<p>The nation's transportation alternatives are not limited to continue driving as we have or privatizing roads. Neal Peirce wonders if there is a third alternative.</p>

November 27 - The Washington Post Writers Group

<p>As an apparently successful experiment, several European cities are doing away with traffic signs in hopes that drivers, pedestrians and bicyclists will interact in a free and humane way.</p>

November 27 - SPIEGEL Magazine

<p>Households looking for alternatives to building a new home from scratch are discovering the possibilities and cost effectiveness of modular homes.</p>

November 27 - The New York Times

<p>Joel Kotkin makes the case for the coming decline of dense, coastal metropolises and the rise of second- and third-tier suburban cities of the Sunbelt.</p>

November 27 - The American

<p>A new conference and exhibition at the Pratt Center for Community Development examines the relationship betweens artists and the struggles over urban space.</p>

November 27 - The Gotham Gazette