The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>While few of the world's 50,000 multinational corporations are reporting in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative's Sustainability Reporting Guidelines, many that are reporting are going beyond the requirements.</p>

October 27 - Grist

<p>As a formerly small town grows into a city, it looks to the creation of a performing arts theater to bring it back above the surface of the flood of suburban blight.</p>

October 27 - The Toronto Star

<p>An automobile tour through Mumbai (Bombay) reveals the extreme contrasts in India's financial capital.</p>

October 26 - Urban Tours by Rental Car

<p>Ann Forsyth, the Dayton Hudson Chair of Urban Design and director of the Metropolitan Design Center at the University of Minnesota, offers advice to academics aspiring for tenure on the importance and process of publishing.</p>

October 26 - Randall Crane's Urban Planning Research Blog

<p>Anthony Townsend experiments with two powerful tools from Google that make it possible to visualize the view impacts of a new 26-story building in New York.</p>

October 26 - Institute for the Future

<p>A grant has been awarded to a large dairy operation in a Michigan County to build a bio-digester to both produce electricity and reduce pollution that officials hope will become widespread in the future.</p>

October 26 - Muskegon Chronicle

<p>Pittsburgh leaders who had spent more than a year creating standards for everything from how a casino should look to where it could be located are furious about a bill enacted by the State House that removes zoning authority from cities.</p>

October 26 - Pittsburgh Post Gazette

<p>New York City's Department of Transportation says that it will have five new high speed bus lines up and running by 2008.</p>

October 26 - Streetsblog

<p>When an architectural firm decided to locate their office in the Tenderloin District in San Francisco, residents vowed to keep the gritty integrity of their neighborhood from changing.</p>

October 26 - Wall Street Journal via The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

<p>Millions of middle-class homeowners may lose their life savings if the economy slides into a severe recession, so why aren't more politicians, bankers, economists and policy analysts taking the threat of a housing market collapse seriously?</p>

October 26 - Truthout

<p>Consultants find that city officials held back a glaring report detailing the city's failing finances to clear the way for municipal bond sales for a new downtown baseball stadium.</p>

October 26 - The San Diego Union-Tribune

<p>Urban planners in New York City are proposing that the historic 42nd Street be transformed into a pedestrian mall that would cross the entire city.</p>

October 26 - amNew York

<p>Why is Silicon Valley the birthplace of successful startups?</p>

October 25 - The New York Times

<p>Over the past 30 years, eastern Massachusetts has seen a remarkable combination of rising home prices and declining supply of new homes. Edward L. Glaeser and Bryce A. Ward examine whether reductions in new supply reflect a real lack of land or a response to man-made restrictions on development.</p>

October 25 - Harvard Institute Of Economic Research

<p>Harvard Professor Gregory Mankiw lists seven reasons why he would like to see Congress incrementally increase the gas tax by $1 per gallon over the next decade.</p>

October 25 - The Wall Street Journal

<p>Nonprofit organizations are offering foreclosure prevention programs to assist people when their mortgages have become unmanageable.</p>

October 25 - Shelterforce Magazine

<p>A plan to revive downtown Cleveland by creating an design district that would make the city a center of consumer-product design is attracting the support of local experts and officials.</p>

October 25 - The Cleveland Plain Dealer

<p>With a diverse economy no longer dependent on military spending, the city is trying to lessen Uncle Sam's influence in its affairs and exert more control over its own destiny.</p>

October 25 - Voice of San Diego

<p>The City of Detroit and its suburbs continue to battle over one of the nation's largest water and sewer systems.</p>

October 25 - Michigan Land Use Institute

<p>As the city's core continues to gentrify, many low-income families are being left with few if any options for affordable housing.</p>

October 25 - The Los Angeles Times