The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>City life edges back towards normalisty in Baghdad where residents are noticing improvements in security and lower rates of violence. More people are traveling across the city and staying out at night, and even the liquor stores are opening back up.</p>

November 20 - The New York Times

<p>Retirees are less inclined to move out of their homes as they ages, so a cooperative group in Connecticut is creating a network amongst retirees and service providers to enable people to stay put.</p>

November 20 - The New York Times

<p>The first (of four) phases of the infamous Second Ave. subway is ready to begin construction thanks to the approval of $1.3 billion in federal financing, enabling the long-delayed line to be built from 92nd to 63rd streets in Manhattan.</p>

November 20 - The New York Times

<p>Development is booming in Dubai -- so much so that its pace is causing concerns about carbon emissions. In response, numerous green efforts have been launched to bring sustainability into the planning and design process.</p>

November 20 - Arabian Business

<p>The development patterns of New York and Berlin have some striking similarities, according to a new exhibition looking at the circumstances influencing each of the cities.</p>

November 20 - The New York Times

<p>Maryland residents are being pushed farther and farther away from Washington D.C. due to rising house prices.</p>

November 20 - The Washington Post

BLOG POST

<p class="MsoNormal" align="left">Many families move to sprawled, automobile-dependent suburbs because they want a safe place to raise their children. They are mistaken. A smart growth community is actually a much safer and healthier place to live overall.</p>

November 20 - Todd Litman

<p>A measure that would have increased funding for Milwaukee-area commuter transit was recently voted down, fueling a push for neighboring cities to break away and form their own transit agencies.</p>

November 20 - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

<p>The Transit Riders' Union of Edmonton has challenged city councilors in Edmonton, Alberta to give up their private vehicles. Four councilors will rely exclusively on public transit for the next week.</p>

November 20 - CBC News

<p>The latest report on America's most dangerous cities has been released, and Detroit is once again at the top. Critics are bashing the study, saying the FBI crime statistics it is based on do not tell the whole story of each city.</p>

November 19 - CNN

<p>Despite predictions of heavy use, a mere 200 vehicles a day are using a high-capacity expressway U-turn intended to ease traffic on the city's surface streets.</p>

November 19 - The Boston Globe

<p>The Pittsburgh City Council is unanimously backing legislation to allow LEED-certified buildings to be taller and bigger than zoning ordinances would normally allow.</p>

November 19 - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

<p>The scene of white-clad lawn bowlers playing amid highrises, long an icon of downtown Victoria, will soon vanish, as the city plans to turn a long-established club's greens into underground parking and a hard-surfaced urban plaza.</p>

November 19 - Victoria Times Colonist

<p>'Retail incubation' is finding footing in New Jersey and nationally as a downtown revitalization tool.</p>

November 19 - New Jersey Herald

FEATURE

November 19 - Nate Berg

<p>Kansas City's ambitious urban-renewal effort to reinvent its downtown is being captured on film.</p>

November 19 - The Los Angeles Times

According to new analysis of satellite data, Hurricane Katrina destroyed 320 million trees. Dead trees will release about 367 million tons of carbon dioxide as they decompose.

November 19 - Los Angeles Times

The daylight savings time change earlier this month has been blamed for a rash of pedestrian deaths and injuries from car collisions in Toronto. The city is looking to police to step up enforcement to cut down the number of injuries.

November 19 - The Toronto Star

<p>Demographers are estimating that the population of Alaska will surpass 800,000 by the year 2030. The population 65 and older is expected to grow the fastest between now and then.</p>

November 19 - Anchorage Daily News

<p>Housing affordability is becoming a major issue in Washington, where workers increasingly have to "drive to qualify".</p>

November 19 - The Columbian