The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>The housing market decline has left many new suburban tract homes in the Phoenix metro area without buyers.</p>

November 9 - The New York Times

<p>Despite its booming growth and the recent announcement of a world-class office tower, downtown Calgary is suffering from a lack of human-scale planning, writes Lisa Rochon.</p>

November 9 - The Globe and Mail

<p>The founder of Burt's Bees is buying land in hopes of creating a new national park in Maine, but locals disagree with the plan to ban snowmobiling, hunting and all-terrain vehicles on 50,000 of her acres.</p>

November 9 - The New York Times

<p>With Houston's housing market on the rise as once-hot U.S. markets head south, some economists argue the city's lax development controls allow housing supply to keep up with demand.</p>

November 9 - The Wall Street Journal

While late to adopt bus rapid transit, San Francisco's Muni is planning to bring fully-fledged BRT lines, complete with dedicated lanes, to the city by 2010.

November 9 - The San Francisco Chronicle

FEATURE

November 9 - John M. Dugan

<p>While the current housing market in decline, analysts are starting to think about meeting the different housing demands and preferences of younger households.</p>

November 9 - RealEstateJournal.com

<p>In a challenge to the popular Google Earth, Microsoft has released a new technology that allows users to view 3D models of cities.</p>

November 9 - CNET News

<p>After years of Beijing's growing middle class buying new flats on the city's outskirts, long commutes are encouraging people to move back into the city's center.</p>

November 9 - China Daily

<p>Two new environmentally-friendly housing projects in Chicago are geared towards the city's homeless population.</p>

November 8 - The New York Times

<p>The new study, which hopes to predict the demand and encourage construction of new transit-friendly homes, comes as the city is in the midst of a major expansion of its light rail system.</p>

November 8 - Denver Business Journal

<p>A city in Ohio is using the lure of free parking in an effort to shoppers in the holiday mood.</p>

November 8 - Toledo Blade

<p>The five newly approved underground and elevated rail transit projects are aimed at easing the notoriously congested traffic of Thailand's capital.</p>

November 8 - International Herald Tribune

<p>Groups of planners, architects, and policy makers descended on downtown New Brunswick, New Jersey, to document the character of the city's urban form as part of a training program in form-based codes.</p>

November 8 - Home News Tribune

<p>The historic South Carolina city is revisiting its preservation strategy as the rapidly growing metropolitan area plows full steam ahead into the 21st century.</p>

November 8 - The Post and Courier

<p>A new affordable housing plan in New York City has solved some problems facing lower income residents, but has also created many woes for people who purhcased shoddy homes through the plan and have been unable to get any help from the city since.</p>

November 8 - WNBC via MSNBC

<p>In downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, a new group of citizens are giving their city's image a boost by providing a variety of services, from picking up litter to redirecting lost visitors.</p>

November 8 - The News & Observer

<p>Seventeen years after moving into a suburban office park, engineering firm O'Brien &amp; Gere announced plans to move hundreds of workers to an environmentally friendly new office complex in downtown Syracuse.</p>

November 8 - Syracuse Post-Standard

<p>Owners of 19th Century homes in Chicago are seeing condo developments moving rapidly into their neighborhoods despite the efforts of preservationists.</p>

November 8 - The New York Times

<p>Former New York City Deputy Transportation Commissioner "Gridlock" Sam Schwartz proposes two ideas to help walkers and bikers get along on NYC's crowded streets.</p>

November 7 - Streetsblog