The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>An old Navy base presents the San Francisco suburb of Alameda with a great opportunity. However, a long-standing city policy that prohibits high-density development could quash that opportunity.</p>

February 21 - California Planning & Development Report

<p>The recent phenomenon of housing abandonment in the suburbs is only the beginning: projections now estimate that by 2025 40% of large-lot homes will be standing vacant.</p>

February 21 - Atlantic Monthly

<p>The best way to improve automobiles is to improve cities, according to this article from <em>Business Week</em>.</p>

February 21 - Business Week

<p>In a recently released report, it has been found that Minnesota's transportation funding cannot keep pace with the state's infrastructure needs -- leaving only enough to maintain existing roads, not build any new ones.</p>

February 21 - Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune

<p>The government of British Columbia has announced a carbon tax system for the province -- the first in North America.</p>

February 21 - The Globe and Mail

<p>The use of eminent domain by the Denver-area Regional Transportation District is coming under increasing scrutiny from homeowners and public officials.</p>

February 21 - The Denver Post

<p>As the population booms, the need for housing and development will become even greater over the next 20 years. Many are arguing for a shift away from the cookie-cutter land use patterns of the past.</p>

February 21 - The New York Times

<p>After years of boom-and-bust economic see-sawing, the city of Anchorage, Alaska, is showing signs of steady growth and economic stability.</p>

February 21 - The Seattle Times

<p>City rankings can be double-edged sword.</p>

February 21 - Governing

<p>Subdivisions that were approved under Oregon's Measure 37 in 2004 and then overturned by the passage of Measure 49 last November are moving forward, but only a few houses at a time -- a result Measure 49's proponents say is a victory.</p>

February 21 - The Oregonian

<p>Los Angeles is moving forward with plans to institute one of the country's strictest green building ordinances.</p>

February 20 - The Los Angeles Times

<p>The City Creek Center is touted as the means to revitalize Main Street in Salt Lake City. However, there are many critics of the claim that a skybridge over Main Street is "critical to the success of the project."</p>

February 20 - Utah Stories

<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