The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>Portland's plan for ending homelessness by 2015 has caught the attention of several Canadian municipalities, which are looking to apply the Portland model to their own cities.</p>

February 20 - The Globe & Mail

BLOG POST

<p>How could a new chamber of commerce algorithm drive decisions about employer locations, improve mobility of workers, while reducing pollution accruing from longer daily work trips?  The answer is simple, says the chief economist of the Greater Dallas Chamber, Lyssa Jenkens, “You change the data system to deliver information people never got before.” </p>

February 20 - Anonymous

<p>A regional government report shows a slowdown in traffic growth in Metropolitan St. Louis, but state highway officials still plan to expand highways.</p>

February 20 - St. Louis Post-Dispatch

<p>Vancouver's plans for "EcoDensity" should be better understood by the public before moving forward, according to this opinion piece.</p>

February 20 - The Tyee

<p>This op-ed calls on residents and historians to give more recognition to homes built in the last 50 years as true "historic" sites worth preservation.</p>

February 20 - The Globe and Mail

<p>Plans for a commuter rail system in Central Florida may be disrupted by a federal order to weigh the impact of rerouting freight trains to accommodate the new system.</p>

February 20 - The Orlando Sentinel

<p>This editorial from <em>The New York Times</em> bemoans the absence of discussion about urban policy in the presidential campaigns.</p>

February 20 - The New York Times

<p>Mark Ames, author of "Going Postal", wonders if American gun tragedies like last week's massacre at Northern Illinois University might be at least partially explained by the bleak physical built environments of middle America.</p>

February 20 - AlterNet

<p>Public art in the United Kingdom is coming under increasing scrutiny as artists and the public grapple with the question of who should be memorialized in statue form: significant historical figures or ordinary people?</p>

February 20 - BBC

<p>A group of scientists has blasted the Canadian government for allowing tarsands oil exploration to wreak havoc on the environment, calling it the "most destructive project on Earth".</p>

February 19 - CBC

<p>Architect Teddy Cruz is betting Tijuana-style development will flourish in gentrifying American neighborhoods -- and preserve their lower income populations.</p>

February 19 - The New York Times

<p>Scientists are proposing a plan to buffer the Gulf Coast from the brunt of hurricanes by engineering more than 1000 square kilometers of new wetlands along the coast.</p>

February 19 - New Scientist

<p>Living more sustainably, tackling infrastructure problems and ensuring a more protected way of experiencing natural disasters are among the top challenges of the next 50 years, according to a group of scientists, entrepreneurs and thinkers.</p>

February 19 - The Guardian

<p>A proposal to demolish a local library and replace it with a shopping center has angered and mobilized artists in Atlanta who say the building does more for the community than the new revenue from the redevelopment ever will.</p>

February 19 - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

<p>New York City has made a controversial decision to shut down a Latin American public market -- one of the last of a dying breed of public markets in the city.</p>

February 19 - The New York Times

<p>A civil engineer has proposed a plan to create a "satellite" backup city of the Turkish metropolis of Instanbul -- a city precariously sited in a major earthquake area.</p>

February 19 - Discovery

<p>A new map has been released that shows the extent of the effects human development and lifestyle have had on the world's oceans.</p>

February 19 - The Guardian

<p>Candidates for mayor in London are touting their green credentials in the global city as is continues to win acclaim for progressive and environmentally conscious planning and administration.</p>

February 19 - BBC

FEATURE

Is suburban growth really a product of the natural progression of human development, and if not, could a a different growth pattern better meet our desires and reduce our impact the climate?

February 19 - Ashwani Vasisth

<p>Washington D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty is seeking a public-private partnership to build a new stadium for the city's professional soccer team.</p>

February 19 - The Washington Post