The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>Four decades ago, Harold Hay invented a way to heat and cool a home without using electricy. Why won't the world listen?</p>

November 12 - The Los Angeles Times

<p>The state of Florida has backed out of a water agreement with Georgia and Alabama that would have cut the state's water supply in an effort to aid drought-stricken Georgia.</p>

November 12 - The Ledger

<p>This article looks at Fort Belvoir, the mixed use military base.</p>

November 12 - The Washington Post

<p>Construction of a road through a dangerous part of Afghanistan is the U.S. Military's attempt to stabilize the Taliban-controlled area.</p>

November 12 - NPR

<p>With the passage of Oregon's Measure 49, some development projects already approved under the now-overturned Measure 37 may be in limbo as the courts determine whether they can be completed.</p>

November 11 - Associated Press via Worldlink

<p>Chicago struggles to overcome its battle with "food deserts" -- areas in the city with little or now access to groceries.</p>

November 11 - Chicago Sun-Times

<p>Is your city addicted to caffeine? Need Coffee Dot Com shares a study commissioned by HealthSaver to determine the most and least wired of America's cities. And no, it's not Seattle.</p>

November 11 - Need Coffee Dot Com

<p>This post from <em>Dwell</em>'s blog shows the floating housing project that has been constructed in New York to provide a habitat for the area's bird species.</p>

November 11 - Dwell Blog

<p>Seattle has approved a new 10-year bicycle master plan that advocates hope will encourage more biking in the city. Seattle's plan stands out from other cities' bicycle plans, as much of its necessary funding has already been approved.</p>

November 11 - The Seattle Times

<p>Toll booths should be eliminated from the country's toll roads, according to Robert Poole.</p>

November 10 - The Wall Street Journal

BLOG POST

<p>Yes, yes. We all want to save the children. They are our most precious resource and hold the key to our future. Let them lead the way, and please, lord, don&#39;t let them get run over by a train. </p><p>Fortunately, most American kids face no such danger because they are held safe in far-flung suburbs where conformity and the cocoon of the strip mall tend to their well-being. They are growing up strong and worldly behind gates and in perfect communities far from the strife of the city, where art, culture, diversity, adventure, and freedom might stimulate them just a little too much. </p>

November 10 - Josh Stephens

<p>This list from <em>Virgin Vacations</em> names the world's 11 most bike-friendly cities, and offers details on the five rating categories that make for a bike-friendly city.</p>

November 10 - Virgin Vacations

<p>A broad bus rapid transit system in the works in Johannesburg, South Africa, is sparking a wildfire of dense, mixed use development plans for the city.</p>

November 10 - Financial Mail

<p>New Urban and transit oriented developments are showing better financial health compared to other types of development as the housing market declines nationwide.</p>

November 10 - New Urban News

<p>This piece from <em>Smart Growth Online</em> looks at transit oriented development near transit and freight facilities -- dubbed "cargo oriented development" -- as discusses how it can create value in neglected industrial areas.</p>

November 10 - Smart Growth Online

<p>As the Disney Corporation and the city of Anaheim, California, squabble over a proposal to build affordable housing near the Happiest Place on Earth, Morris Newman suggests turning the affordable housing project into an "urban theme park".</p>

November 9 - California Planning & Development Report

Some urban planning projects are so frustratingly bad you just have to sing about them ... or at least find some songs to help vent that frustration. This blog post from Stuck Between Stations finds those songs.

November 9 - Stuck Between Stations

<p>Plans call to remap Coney Island's amusement district as parkland, allowing further amusement and recreational development, but blocking proposed high-rise condo towers.</p>

November 9 - The Village Voice

<p>Cars and scooters rules the roads -- and often the sidewalks -- in Greece, making things difficult for the country's pedestrians. A new activist movement is looking to bring illegal parking and pedestrian-right-of-way violations to light.</p>

November 9 - International Herald Tribune

<p>This slideshow from <em>Polar Inertia</em> looks at the Toy District of Los Angeles -- an area that is not nearly as fun as its name would suggest.</p>

November 9 - Polar Inertia