The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>Canada's new federal budget allocates $500 million for public transit and makes a "permanent" commitment to allocating a portion of the gas tax to municipalities for infrastructure-related spending. But is it enough?</p>

March 5 - CBC News

<p>This opinion piece from <em>The Boston Globe</em> calls for an end to the special treatment and unfair taxes levied on city residents.</p>

March 4 - The Boston Globe

<p>With high traffic and no ability to expand existing runways, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is redeveloping an old Air Force base into the region's fourth major airport.</p>

March 4 - The Wall Street Journal

<p>The long-running tri-state battle over water rights between Florida, Alabama and Georgia have yet to be resolved, so the federal government has announced its intentions to impose its own solution.</p>

March 4 - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

<p>This editorial from <em>The Washington Post</em> argues that re-planning the Washington D.C.-Dulles International Airport corridor for buses rather than trains is an idea that just won't work.</p>

March 4 - The Washington Post

<p>As the city of San Diego prepares to consider a new general plan, the <em>San Diego Union-Tribune</em> looks back at the last 100 years in city planning.</p>

March 4 - The San Diego Union-Tribune

<p>The age of the suburbs may be coming to an end in America, and conditions in Canada are even more ripe for this transition to urban density.</p>

March 4 - The Toronto Star

<p>According to a recent poll, one out of every five people in Syndey, Australia, is considering moving out of town. Many city high costs and a loss of job opportunities in the city.</p>

March 4 - The Sydney Morning Herald

<p>This report from <em>NPR</em> examines the controversy and battle brewing between the federal government and small towns in Texas over a Department of Homeland Security plan to build more than 700 miles of fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border.</p>

March 4 - NPR

The machine-city envisioned by Le Corbusier, and made into practice in decades of modernist bureaucracy, has ultimately produced, according to Simon Richards' essay, an antisocial environment, against which urban planning seems to be now reacting.

March 4 - The Urban Reinventors Online Urban Journal

<p>At a recent conference in Southern California, Long Beach Mayor Bob Foster argues for the federal government to stay out of the way of good work and to sponsor an "Apollo Project" for renewable energy.</p>

March 4 - VerdeXchange News

<p>A proposal to sell the naming rights of Chicago's Wrigley Field is being seen as a relaxation of the ballpark's historic landmark restrictions and may open the door for city-wide landmark designation challenges, according to this commentary.</p>

March 3 - The Chicago Tribune

<p>This report from <em>NPR</em> looks at how climate change may affect the future of the Panama Canal.</p>

March 3 - NPR

<p>In his 1.5 billion square-foot master plan for a waterfront city in Dubai, architect Rem Koolhaas has proposed a dense and elaborate city, but one that doesn't try to rely too much on flashy high-end architecture.</p>

March 3 - The New York Times

<p>In the San Francisco Bay Area, two public transit agencies are conducting trials with "Zero Emission Buses", or ZEBs. They are using different types of hydrogen fuel cell technologies, with very different results.</p>

March 3 - San Jose Mercury News

<p>Ubiquitous access to GPS data and social software is generating a whole new breed of cartographers who are empowering themselves and others by mapping everything from community assets to occurrence of disease.</p>

March 3 - In These Times

<p>In certain isolated pockets of India, energy use is skyrocketing. But because the country's per capita use remains low, there is little movement to curb usage in new highly-energetic cities.</p>

March 3 - The New York Times

<p>Transportation planners and public officials have begun to consider ways to reconfigure cities and alter driving patterns in order to reduce vehicle miles traveled and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.</p>

March 3 - InTransition Magazine

<p>Suburban Torontonians will get a $6 billion light rail service, thanks to a newly-announced extension funded by the provincial and federal governments.</p>

March 3 - The Globe and Mail

<p>John White, executive director of the Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technology (CEERT) describes the obstacles that must be overcome for states and municipalities to reach their renewable energy targets.</p>

March 3 - VerdeXchange News