The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>With constant complaints from the public and consistent reports of drug dealing and prostitution, Seattle's automated public toilets may be on their way out.</p>

September 18 - Los Angeles Times via San Francisco Chronicle

<p>A proposal to combine the planning and development services departments could give San Diego's planning director the power to plan for the long-term -- or perhaps lead to more political scandal.</p>

September 18 - San Diego Union Tribune

<p>A plan by city officials to trade public land to a developer in exchange for a new firehouse and library is under fire from residents and activists who believe the deal shortchanges the city.</p>

September 17 - Christian Madera

<p>Forgotten in the ongoing debate about new high-density development is the city's long history of multi-family and mixed-use housing.</p>

September 17 - The Los Angeles Times

<p>Property taxes along Atlanta's proposed Beltline -- a 22-mile loop of park and trails ringing downtown -- are rising sharply, threatening to displace the poor that live in adjacent areas.</p>

September 17 - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

<p>Buffalo is grappling with a blight of abandoned homes - which are directly correlated to crime rates in neighborhoods. It shares much in common with other cities well past their heyday, such as St. Louis, Detroit, and Youngstown.</p>

September 17 - The New York Times

FEATURE

With Americans living in ever larger homes, the growth of the self storage industry demonstrates the irony of an American solution to an American problem -- overabundance.

September 17 - Sriram Khe

<p>Two buildings in Baltimore were recently approved by the city's historic preservation commission as being worthy of historic designation. The only problem is that the owners don't want it.</p>

September 17 - The Baltimore Sun

<p>The Washington D.C. Council is expected to pass legislation that will require bicycle parking at apartment buildings.</p>

September 17 - San Francisco Examiner

<p>The report couldn't have come at a worse time, as Chicago prepares for fare hikes and transit cuts to make up for budget shortfalls.</p>

September 17 - The Chicago Tribune

<p>The nationwide slump in the housing market is manifesting itself in the shrinking square footage of new McMansions.</p>

September 17 - The Wall Street Journal

<p>Washington D.C.'s Cultural Development Corporation is pushing condo conversions to create affordable housing for low-income artists.</p>

September 17 - The Washington Post

<p>This illustrated list outlines the 10 simple steps to designing the city of the future.</p>

September 17 - The New York Times

BLOG POST

<p><img src="/files/u4/lvmonorail2.jpg" border="0" alt="Los Vegas Monorail" title="Los Vegas Monorail" hspace="5" vspace="5" width="362" height="362" align="right" />I was visiting Las Vegas for a wedding and, rather than blow my salary on the blackjack table, I was eager to try the new <a href="http://www.lvmonorail.com/">Las Vegas Monorail</a>. As the world&#39;s only city-scale example of a technology that was once envisioned as the future of mass transit, the Las Vegas Monorail has seven stops along a route that roughly parallels Las Vegas Strip, with stations connected to major hotels. <br />

September 16 - Chris Steins

<p>Soon to be the tallest building in the world, the Burj Dubai is only a small piece of Dubai's unprecedented and spectacular $100-billion construction boom.</p>

September 16 - The Globe & Mail

<p>Predictions that our high-tech age of connectivity and wire-free communications would drain big cities, the world's financial centers remain heavily populated and their economies are thriving.</p>

September 16 - The Economist

<p>Planned construction on Storrow Drive yields a lose-lose situation for Boston's Back Bay neighborhood residents.</p>

September 16 - The Boston Globe

<p>World agricultural productivity could decline between 3-16% by 2080. Developing countries will experience the biggest drop.</p>

September 16 - Center for Global Development

<p>The second phase of Sao Paulo, Brazil's strict advertising and signage ban has begun, and is resulting in the renovation and preservation of the city's historic facades.</p>

September 16 - The Christian Science Monitor

<p>Transportation Secretary Mary Peters is taking a lot of heat from cycling advocates for citing bicycle infrastructure funding for the deteriorating state of the country's highways and bridges.</p>

September 15 - Salon