The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>Civic leaders and city officials in Tucson recently traveled to Portland to get advice about how to improve their city while dealing with an expected population boom. The trip highlighted the big differences between the two cities.</p>

August 14 - Arizona Daily Star

<p>A flea market space located adjacent to a planned expansion of the Bay Area Rapid Transit system in San Jose, California, may be replaced with a mixed use transit village.</p>

August 14 - San Jose Mercury News

<p>The country is stocked with antiquated infrastructure, but this piece from <em>The New York Times</em> says that some of it is only old because it was built to last.</p>

August 14 - The New York Times

<p>Half a million street vendors fill the squares of Mexico City to make their living. The mayor wants to wipe out the vendors, whose businesses contribute no taxes to the city. But the vendors have their own organization that opposes the city's plans.</p>

August 14 - The Los Angeles Times

<p>City and county officials in Milwaukee are reviving efforts to create a regional transportation system. But officials are moving ahead cautiously to avoid the mistakes that halted similar plans in the past.</p>

August 14 - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

<p>A new pedestrian bridge has been added over the Grand Canal in Venice, despite objections from locals that the new modern-designed bridge is out of place.</p>

August 13 - International Herald Tribune

<p>Transportation plans in Memphis are undergoing a major facelift this summer, and the city's metropolitan planning organization is calling on residents to get involved in the process and the future of their city.</p>

August 13 - The Daily News (Memphis)

<p>City officials in a Boston suburb are once again trying to approve building restrictions that would cut down the size of new houses in the city. Builders' groups are lobbying the city to find a compromise.</p>

August 13 - The Boston Globe

<p>San Francisco's Critical Mass bike ride has become an institution in the city, giving cyclists a monthly chance to physically advocate bike awareness.</p>

August 13 - The Los Angeles Times

<p>A lack of attention to the problem of homelessness is turning our public libraries into homeless shelters.</p>

August 13 - Wichita Eagle

FEATURE

Neither the block-level gentrification inspired by the patron saint of city planning nor the wide-scale mega-project redevelopment advocated by New York City's infamous planning czar are useful models for the realities of 21st century cities.

August 13 - Neil Smith

<p>A mixed-use village on a prime parcel of land in downtown Spartanburg, South Carolina, known as Renaissance Park may be the first major project to result from the city's recently adopted master plan.</p>

August 13 - Spartanburg Herald-Journal

<p>The real estate market is reportedly down in many major metropolitan areas, but within them pockets of high-value properties are flourishing.</p>

August 13 - The Baltimore Sun

<p>Getting neighbors together for community events does more than prevent crime, according to the Project for Public Spaces.</p>

August 13 - Project For Public Spaces

<p>Louisiana's eroding and sinking coastline also happens to be the site of a major proportion of America's oil infrastructure.</p>

August 13 - Fortune Magazine

<p>Residents in small-town, suburban Boston are on edge about the impending demolition of historic housing to make room for what they fear will be a national chain retailer -- a first for the town.</p>

August 13 - The Boston Globe

<p>Preparations are underway to take Oregon's land use legislation Measure 37 back to the ballot this November, but the property rights case that became the face issue still remains unsettled.</p>

August 12 - The Portland Tribune

<p>The Central California town of Arvin exceeds federal ozone standards more often than any other city in the nation, according to EPA figures. But for Arvin residents, the smog has only local effects, not local sources.</p>

August 12 - Associated Press via The York Dispatch

<p>Architects and housing experts look to the future of housing and predict increases in the amount of gadgets and furnishings rather than square footage.</p>

August 12 - The Washington Post

<p>Housing advocates in Sacramento are up in arms over proposed changes to the city's housing policy that would shift responsibility for building affordable units from the developer to the city -- changes they say will limit the policy's effectiveness.</p>

August 12 - The Sacramento Bee