The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>Ed Blakely, New Orleans' recently named recovery czar, will have his hands full as a research fellow studying climate change as he manages the city's planning and reconstruction.</p>

January 26 - AP via The Times Picayune

<p>In October, Planetizen reported on the "largest real estate deal in US history". Profits of the $5.4 billion sale in NYC could be reduced by 6%, or $324 million, if tenants win their suit that 25% of the 12,232 apartments were illegally deregulated.</p>

January 26 - The New York Times

<p>Low parking meter collection rates have shocked public officials in San Francisco, where parking is so valuable people are literally killing for it.</p>

January 26 - The San Francisco Chronicle

<p>Indonesia's private airplanes and trains are not subject to stringent regulation officials say. As a result, the government compromises safety.</p>

January 26 - BBC World

<p>As Cleveland and the Ohio Department of Transportation make plans for a reconstruction of an urban stretch of highway without a bike lane, it seems the transportation agency doesn't care about the quarter of the city's residents who don't drive cars.</p>

January 26 - The Cleveland Free Times

<p>In an effort to put a modern face on Calcutta, the Indian state of West Bengal has outlawed rickshaw pulling.</p>

January 26 - The Globe and Mail

<p>This editorial calls on public officials in South Carolina and Georgia to work together to build a river port that will benefit them both.</p>

January 26 - Savannah Morning News

<p>Passage of an ordinance making it illegal to sit or lie on sidewalks in Portland, Oregon, has been delayed by the city's mayor until more benches and public restrooms have been installed.</p>

January 26 - The Portland Tribune

<p>Do we need new carpool lanes or just new rules for the existing ones?</p>

January 25 - The Los Angeles Times

<p>Wendell Cox and Ronald Utt suggest that smart growth abuses are creating a "Rent Belt" of high-Cost areas.</p>

January 25 - The Heritage Foundation

<p>Plans to demolish New Orleans' largest public housing complexes face strong opposition from residents.</p>

January 25 - The Los Angeles Times

<p>A proposed regional plan in Reno, Nevada, is looking to make big steps towards increasing the area's density and environmental friendliness. But opponents are worried that a rise in density will create major infrastructure problems.</p>

January 25 - Reno Gazette-Journal

<p>Growing demand for the innovative service is sustaining three competing car-sharing companies.</p>

January 25 - The San Francisco Chronicle

<p>An 18 million square-foot hotel and commercial resort in Las Vegas is set to become the largest LEED-certified project in the U.S. when it opens in 2009. Other builders are expected to follow the green path in Nevada, where tax breaks are generous.</p>

January 25 - Las Vegas Sun

<p>The city's Port Authority has proposed cutting 25 percent of its bus and rail service and hiking fares by 75 cents to plug an $80 million budget deficit.</p>

January 25 - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

<p>Cheap rents draw many young people into less fashionable neighborhoods -- sparking gentrification -- though sometimes the trade-offs can be more than bargained for.</p>

January 25 - The Wall Street Journal

<p>Wendell Cox discusses the "faulty predictions" of a recent report on the prevalence of asthma in 100 U.S. metropolitan areas.</p>

January 25 - From the Heartland

<p>Equity refuges from the Golden State are driving up home prices, increasing traffic, liberalizing politics and bringing crime to cities in the Interior West.</p>

January 25 - The Economist

<p>The City of Youngstown, Ohio has decided to give up on reviving its industrial era population, and set about the process of shrinking the city down to a size more in line with its economy.</p>

January 24 - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

<p>Amid a flurry of subsidies in other states offered to companies like Microsoft and Yahoo!, Google plans to open a $600 million data center in Lenoir, North Carolina, population 17,000. The city will offer a generous tax break and a state grant.</p>

January 24 - San Jose Mercury News