The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>Home to Chinese immigrants before becoming a town known for vice and sin, Garden City, Idaho, is planning a rebirth that leaders and residents hope will transform the community into a desirable and prosperous part of Metro Boise.</p>

July 23 - The Boise Weekly

<p>Director Rita Robinson discusses the Bureau of Sanitation's pursuit of a cleaner, greener, and landfill-free L.A.</p>

July 22 - The Metro Investment Report

<p>A trip to Baja California -- with its ubiquitous taco stands -- inspires one resident of a New Urbanist community to deal with his neighborhood's lack of eateries by developing a plan for a taco stand.</p>

July 22 - A Taco Stand in Every Neighborhood

<p>Politicians in Toronto are looking to large-scale developments centered around casinos to help boost the city's economy. But the provincial legislation in Ontario may prevent the approval of any new casinos.</p>

July 22 - The Toronto Star

<p>The State of California has approved a plan to clean mercury from the San Francisco Bay. Due to the high concentration of the harmful toxin, the extensive effort has a 70-year timetable.</p>

July 22 - The San Francisco Chronicle

<p>For a host of environmental and aesthetic reasons, roof-top vegetation and gardens are catching on -- though there are still many questions about how and when to apply the technique.</p>

July 22 - The Salt Lake Tribune

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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">I couldn’t wait to use the new word, <strong>ginormous</strong>, which Merriam-Webster recently added to the Collegiate Dictionary.<span>  </span>My spell checker has been trained and now I can get about the business of saving ginormous amounts of energy.<span>  </span>Recent bouts of ecoterrorism in the form of Hummer vandalism in Washington D.C. and the growing media attention to the environmental hypocrisy of the travel and housing habits of card-carrying carbon footprint club members (take a gander at the 10,000 sq. ft. home of Al Gore or the 28,200 sq.

July 21 - Steven Polzin

<p>New York and San Francisco are the American cities to make the list, compiled by the editors of Travel + Leisure magazine. Florence, Italy tops this year's list.</p>

July 21 - MSNBC

<p>With the reopening of Ralph's Grocery Store -- the first full service supermarket in Downtown Los Angeles in over 50 years -- planners and developers are ready to declare the area's redevelopment efforts an official success.</p>

July 21 - The Los Angeles Times

<p>With only three enclosed malls built since 2005, it seems safe to say we've seen the last of the shopping mall as we've known it.</p>

July 21 - The Daily Green

<p>In the latest sign that the once suburban county is now increasingly urban, Irvine, California officials have approved plans for a new bus and streetcar line to connect the city's commuter rail station with several new and existing developments.</p>

July 21 - The Los Angeles Times

<p>A San Mateo County supervisor is proposing that the county reward developers of environmentally-friendly projects with faster permit approvals.</p>

July 21 - Palo Alto Daily News

<p>In the wake of a recent wave of people roaming naked in its streets, the Vermont town of Brattleboro is considering imposing a ban on public nudity. Vermont has no state laws against the act.</p>

July 20 - The Boston Globe

<p>While publishers of the recent list of America's Best Places to Live focused on small towns, it seems most places that made the list aren't so much towns but suburban outposts in the suburban sprawl of larger cities.</p>

July 20 - The Los Angeles Times

<p>For 2007, Money Magazine's annual survey focused on small towns with a sense of community. Topping the list? Middleton, Wisconsin -- population 17,400.</p>

July 20 - Money Magazine

<p>The steam pipe explosion in Manhattan is the latest evidence of the coming crisis that infrastructure experts have been warning us about for years.</p>

July 20 - Time Magazine

<p>The idea of aging in community honors the elder stage of life as one with gifts and challenges. It encourages creation of caring neighborhoods and networks that provide for affordable, quality housing to support future needs and new opportunities.</p>

July 20 - Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments

<p>While South Beach today conjures images of upscale urban beach lifestyle and glorious art deco architecture, it has not always been that way.</p>

July 20 - The Miami Herald

<p>A detailed look at Mayor Bloomberg's ill-fated congestion pricing plan reveals a series of serious missteps by the normally adept mayor in dealing with the state legislature.</p>

July 20 - The New York Times

<p>With Lake Mead already down to two-thirds capacity, water officials in fast-growing Southern Nevada have spent over $80 million to 'encourage' residents to rip up sod and "xeriscape" their yards.</p>

July 20 - The New York Times