The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>Proposed state legislation in Arizona will punish cities that offer subsidies to retail projects. Kansas City's new mayor was elected on an anti-TIF platform. Increasingly, public financing for urban revitalization is coming under attack.</p>

April 5 - The Wall Street Journal

<p>A large loss of mobile home parks in Florida has legislators asking whether the state or the municipalities should take responsibility for the thousands of misplaced low-income residents.</p>

April 5 - The Miami Herald

<p>A researcher has cited the preponderance of luxury amenities in cars as decreasing the amount of carpoolers and making it easier for drivers to "adapt" to and accept gridlock.</p>

April 5 - CBC News

<p>The provincial government in British Columbia has purchased 11 residential hotels in an effort to improve its handling of a rapidly increasing homeless population.</p>

April 5 - The Tyee

BLOG POST

<p class="MsoNormal">Getting stuck in traffic is fast becoming one of those necessary evils that everyone complains about but seldom does anything about it.<span> </span>Or at least anything that seems terribly effective.<span> </span>Neither additional road building nor public transit seemed to have had a major impact on traffic congestion in places where these types of remedies have been attempted.</p>

April 5 - Lance Freeman

<p>The British government has proposed lifting planning barriers that hindered the domestic installation and use of energy generating devices such as small wind turbines and solar panels.</p>

April 5 - Building

FEATURE

Many say Los Angeles is a city that grew without any rational planning. In reality the planning was there -- but much of the best planning never quite materialized.

April 5 - Christian Peralta

<p>Western states suffering from prolonged drought get proactive about water problems in the face of increasing demand. Projects include desalinization plants and a 280-mile pipeline to Las Vegas, but the fight over water is escalating.</p>

April 5 - The New York Times

<p>In response to the loss of local businesses in some of Salt Lake City's neighborhoods, Mayor Rocky Anderson is proposing a ban on chain stores in neighborhoods valued for their local character and businesses. But support for the ban is sparse.</p>

April 5 - The Salt Lake Tribune

<p>The town of Blue Springs, Missouri, has turned to a form-based code to help revitalize its downtown and improve predictability for residents and developers alike.</p>

April 5 - The Kansas City Star

<p>Global warming is causing significant long- and short-term problems for the highly populated Mediterranean island of Malta, many parts of which would be submerged by rising sea levels, and whose water supply would be contaminated by sea water.</p>

April 5 - BBC

<p>While public transit trips have been increasing, funding the systems remains a chronic problem, illustrated by the woes facing the Chicago El. This editorial urges Congress to increase the gas tax to provide all transit systems more revenue.</p>

April 4 - The New York Times

<p>Diesel school buses are typically high polluters. But production has begun on environmentally-friendlier electric-diesel hybrid buses, and school districts in 11 states have made orders.</p>

April 4 - The Christian Science Monitor

<p>A new high-speed rail line exceeded 357 miles per hour in a recent test, nearly matching a record set by magnetic levitation technology.</p>

April 4 - The New York Times

<p>Nostalgia for the red tile roofs and stucco exteriors of 1980's SoCal suburbia.</p>

April 4 - The Los Angeles Times

<p>The nation's population trends can give planners insight into the demand for housing in the coming decades.</p>

April 4 - The Brookings Institution

<p>Debate over the future of an elevated railway in Philadelphia is missing a key ingredient that has helped pushed New York's High Line project forward -- leadership and vision.</p>

April 4 - The Daily Pennsylvanian

<p>What library schools don't cover: The fact that public libraries are now de-facto homeless shelters, and librarians are having to act not only as social workers but also as frontline medical staff.</p>

April 4 - AlterNet

<p>With developable land all but gone in Manhattan, developers are now setting their sights on the open space many modernist housing towers reserved for basketball courts, plazas, and parks.</p>

April 4 - The New York Sun

<p>One London borough has taken to charging higher parking fees to the owners of high-emission vehicles.</p>

April 4 - BBC News