The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>At the current rate of infrastructure spending for sewer construction and other sanitation measures, there won't be universal access to sanitation in Brazil fore more than 115 years.</p>

December 11 - Inter Press Service

<p>Devastating floods in the southern Washington community of Chehalis have many tracing the roots of the problem back to clear-cut logging and a long pattern of unchecked floodplain development.</p>

December 11 - The Seattle Times

<p>This article from the <em>Warsaw Business Journal</em> looks at how the concept of the Garden City is gladly embraced by developers to market their housing projects, but rarely are its design characteristics included in the actual development.</p>

December 10 - Warsaw Business Journal

<p>The seven western states dependent on the Colorado River for their water are on the verge of coming to an agreement on a management plan to ensure a steady supply of water from the increasingly stressed source. But some say the plan won't do enough.</p>

December 10 - The Arizona Republic

<p>A report by <em>The Boston Globe</em> finds that the Boston area transit system costs less to operate than other major American transit systems -- but it has one of the worst on-time arrival performances in the nation.</p>

December 10 - The Boston Globe

<p>With more and more land receiving federal protection as National Heritage Areas, property rights activists are butting heads with the preservationists they say are taking rights away from landowners.</p>

December 10 - The Washington Post

<p>The city may consider a heavy rail subway system after overturning a light rail ballot initiative.</p>

December 10 - The Kansas City Star

BLOG POST

<p> It seems that global cities across the world are running up against an unforeseen brake on their future growth - airport and airspace congestion. </p>

December 10 - Anthony Townsend

<p>Plans to demolish low income housing and remove FEMA trailers are putting the poor of New Orleans in a tight spot.</p>

December 10 - Bloomberg

<p>UCLA urban planning professor Randall Crane offers his observations on the four options that planning schools have for helping applicants decide to which schools they should apply and attend.</p>

December 10 - Urban Planning Research by Randall Crane

FEATURE

December 10 - Wayne Senville

<p>The City Journal examines lessons from Boston's 35-year, $14.8 billion Big Dig project and asks how can American invest in infrastructure -- and do it intelligently?</p>

December 10 - City Journal

<p>In this new report from the Cato Institute, Randal O'Toole writes that regional growth management plans make housing unaffordable and that states with these laws should repeal them.</p>

December 10 - Cato Institute

<p>This article from <em>Utne Reader</em> looks at a green housing complex that aimed at an atypical market: low-income residents.</p>

December 10 - Utne Reader

<p>Urban planners and developers in the Western United States could learn a lot from Munich, Germany, argues one online commentator.</p>

December 9 - UtahStories.com

BLOG POST

<p>It&#39;s often said that in America, urban development issues are decided at the local level. In general the rule of thumb is accurate, explaining a country home to cities as different in form as Houston, Texas and San Francisco, California. The notable exception to the rule is the country&#39;s interstate highway system, build with extensive involvement of the federal government. However, under closer inspection we can find a number of areas where federal funding and policies has a strong impact on urban development. A survey of what the leading presidential candidates are saying about urban policy suggests what priorities our next president may have.</p>

December 9 - Robert Goodspeed

The new slogan for bicyclists and pedestrians across America is gaining attention, as well as weight, from a number of municipalities.

December 9 - New Urban News

<p>The first new residents of the Clublands subdivision were promised a neighborhood. Instead they live among half-finished homes, unpaved roads, and darkened street lights as the community's developer wrestles with bankruptcy.</p>

December 9 - The Chicago Tribune

<p>Subways are proliferating across the globe as metro status symbols and attracting new forms of urban investment.</p>

December 9 - Business Week

<p>The actor-turned-developer announced plans to build 150 environmentally-friendly homes for low-income families in New Orleans's Lower Ninth Ward.</p>

December 9 - CNN