The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>We shouldn't be blaming biofuel production for rising food prices and environmental degradation while ignoring the immense harm of industrial meat production, writes Frances Cerra Whittelsey.</p>

August 6 - AlterNet

<p>The National Bridge Inventory completed in the wake of the I-35W collapse in Minneapolis has revealed numerous gaps in data and delayed inspections at the State level.</p>

August 6 - MSNBC

<p>This commentary from <em>Reason</em> looks at the prospect of a national infrastructure bank and argues that much more needs to be done.</p>

August 6 - Reason

<p>Boing Boing reports on Axel Peemoeller's award-winning parking lot design, which has giant words that snap into focus when you stand (or drive) in the right position. </p>

August 6 - Boing Boing

<p>Mom-and-pop shops in New York are being rapidly replaced with chain stores, according to a new count that shows more than 5,700 chain outlets in the city.</p>

August 6 - The Daily News

<p>A new high-speed rail line has opened in China, just in time for the Olympics.</p>

August 6 - BBC

<p>Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels recently announced a plan to close off certain roads to cars on Sundays starting this month. Local business owners are worried that closures will keep people away.</p>

August 6 - The Seattle Post-Intelligencer

<p>San Francisco has passed some of the strictest green building requirements in the nation, for new construction and renovations.</p>

August 6 - The San Francisco Chronicle

<p>A Montreal business group sold sponsorship rights to Budweiser for an outdoor event on a closed street, but restauranteurs setting up outside think the deal goes too far as they are forced to sell the watery beer to their patrons.</p>

August 6 - The Globe and Mail

<p>Early buyers in new housing developments are finding themselves stranded in virtual ghost towns as developers go belly up.</p>

August 5 - Wall St. Journal

<p>Streetsblog reports that Hillary Clinton has followed the lead of Congress and introduced a version of their recent transit bill.</p>

August 5 - Streetsblog

<p>Alex Steffen of WorldChanging proposes that globalization could soon change direction as transportation costs increase.</p>

August 5 - WorldChanging

<p>Simmons Buntin tours metropolitan Denver with local planner Carolyn Dooling and finds a host of vibrant developments.</p>

August 5 - The Next American City

<p>In Boston, architecture firm Utile and non-profit developer Urban Edge bring a new, stylish look to affordable housing.</p>

August 5 - The Boston Globe

<p>Wendell Cox looks at commuting patterns, and finds that the old supposition that most commuters are going from suburban housing to urban jobs no longer holds water.</p>

August 5 - newgeography

<p>In the aftermath of a grisly and unprovoked murder on a Greyhound Bus, Transport Canada and municipalities are looking at how to improve security on buses and trains.</p>

August 5 - The Montreal Gazette

<p>Southern Maine planners, who have long subscribed to the idea that they worked in rural, car-dependent communities, are beginning to embrace density, mixed-uses, and transit.</p>

August 5 - Portland Press Herald

<p>Official sources show that Minnesota had been long diverting bridge repair funds to build new highways.</p>

August 5 - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

<p>The Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission, the MPO for the Philadelphia metropolitan region, has introduced an innovate way of making people aware of the benefits of older, established suburbs: market them.</p>

August 5 - The Philadelphia Inquirer

<p>Neal Peirce sums up the movement across the country in cities like Houston, Denver, and Charlotte towards improved transit systems, while latecomer Atlanta wakes up to their transit deficit.</p>

August 4 - Citiwire.net