The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>Detroit city officials have approved a plan to recycle the city's waste sludge into fertilizer.</p>

November 23 - The Detroit Free Press

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<p>Over the last few weeks, I have participated in two panels on Social and Environmental Sustainability. The first one was at the Ringling School of Art’s &quot;Designing for Life&quot; conference, the second was at BuildBoston where Adaptive Environments organized a day long symposium on Universal Design. In both cases, design took center stage. Design as a means towards change, and design as a business force. This is good news for advocates of Universal Design. </p>

November 23 - Barbara Knecht

<p>Mexico City and its 20 million people get water from many sources, some nearly 100 miles away. The city has announced plans to achieve water self-sufficiency by 2020, a task sure to be a challenge.</p>

November 23 - Treehugger

<p>This article from <em>Metropolis Magazine</em> takes a look at the redevelopment (or not) in New Orleans today.</p>

November 22 - Metropolis Magazine

<p>Mixed use developments are reeling in residents, but struggle to attract retailers.</p>

November 22 - The New York Times

<p>A vortex of winds has concentrated garbage and plastic flotsam into a huge island of garbage in the middle of the Pacific Ocean -- an unintentionally man-made mass that is growing at a rapid pace.</p>

November 22 - The Tyee

<p>In 2008, Maryland voters will consider a plan to allow slot gambling machines in the state. But local zoning regulations could trump the state law, giving communities control over whether the machines are allowed or not.</p>

November 22 - The Baltimore Sun

<p>The dedication of a piece of public art in San Francisco inspires this reflection on the not-so-welcoming arms of the city's progressive population to public art projects in the past.</p>

November 22 - The San Francisco Chronicle

<p>Vancouver has been named one of the world's "smartest" cities in a recent list, which also includes cities from Australia, Ohio, Scotland, and India.</p>

November 21 - The Vancouver Sun

<p>The last privately held island in the East River has been transferred to the City of New York using a combination of public and private funds.</p>

November 21 - The New York Times

<p>A mixed-income housing project is one of a handful of housing complexes taking form in New Orleans, where housing availability has been slow to recover to pre-Katrina levels.</p>

November 21 - The New York Times

<p>Western planners and architects have drafted a broad master plan for Kigali, the capital of Rwanda -- one of the least developed nations in the world.</p>

November 21 - Metropolis Magazine

<p>More than controlled burns or flying water tankers, zoning could be the firefighters most powerful tool.</p>

November 21 - The Huffington Post

<p>Developers seek to use the environmental friendliness of their projects to lure second home buyers who may be struggling with the guilt of buying another home and increasing their environmental footprint.</p>

November 21 - The Wall Street Journal

<p>High returns on investments for housing developments in struggling and stagnant Australian city suburbs are helping to convince both developers and public officials to continue the outer-urban renewal efforts.</p>

November 21 - The Australian

<p>The UN agency assigned to climate change known as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that shared a Nobel Prize with former VP Al Gore has issued its final report - and the news is worse than initially thought. Will the world react in time?</p>

November 21 - The New York Times

<p>People who drive in L.A. have a lot of time to think about the urban form while they sit in traffic. Specifically, they wonder why everything in Southern California requires a trip in the car.</p>

November 21 - California Planning & Development Report

<p>The burgeoning increase in foreclosures is leaving some suburban California neighborhoods with multiple abandoned and unguarded homes, which become tempting targets for looters, vandals and thieves.</p>

November 21 - Modesto Bee

<p>Seeking a way to fund the state's many transit and transportation projects, officials in Washington are considering a plan that would put a highway tolling bill in front of the state legislature early next year -- a bill many believe would pass.</p>

November 20 - Crosscut

<p>A new report warns that Canada's municipal infrastructure, much of it many decades old, is in urgent need of investment and upgrading.</p>

November 20 - The Globe & Mail