The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>Government programs that subsidize energy-efficiency improvements in houses are being reconsidered as some claim the effort isn't worth the benefit.</p>

October 27 - The Globe and Mail

<p>Demand for architectural services remained strong in most regions of the country except in Florida, Michigan, and the Ohio Valley.</p>

October 27 - AIArchitect

<p>The California Transportation Commission allocated $15.5 million to the state's High-Speed Rail Authority for environmental, engineering and design work on short, designated corridors for the 700-mile, $40 billion rail system.</p>

October 27 - The Los Angeles Times

<p>A recent 540-page report from the United Nations outlines the mega-problem of climate change, warning that failure to act may cause irreversible damage.</p>

October 27 - The Windsor Star

<p>Canada has already seen devastating urban forest fires, and some communities are preparing for the worst by adopting "FireSmart" principles into their bylaws.</p>

October 27 - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

<p>This article from the meat-focused magazine <em>Meatpaper</em> discusses Manhattan and its similarities to a slab of meat, and looks at how Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs would have sliced their New York steaks.</p>

October 26 - Meatpaper

<p>Detroit is planning to sell off nearly 100 of its public parks to make way for redevelopment. The mostly small, pocket parks have been increasingly abandoned as their neighborhoods decline in population.</p>

October 26 - The Detroit Free Press

<p>Leading climate change scientist Tim Flannery talks about impact of global warming, the silencing of science, micro wind turbines, geothermal energy, compressed-air cars and what the California fires have in common with those in Greece and Australia.</p>

October 26 - Democracy Now

<p>Over the past 75 years, Buffalo, New York, has gone on a long downward spiral of deterioration and depopulation. Instead of pumping money into this failing city, legislators should focus on helping its people, writes Edward L. Glaeser.</p>

October 26 - City Journal

<p>Now Canada'a most expensive housing market, downtown Vancouver is attracting more and more big-spending buyers and watching its property values skyrocket.</p>

October 26 - The New York Times

<p>Most people think of parking garages as ugly behemoths that perform a necessary evil, but one author and architect has a different way of looking at them.</p>

October 26 - International Herald Tribune

<p>Stadium design and renovation creates the opportunity for massive energy savings from these large complexes, but not many of the most energy-efficient designs have moved past the drawing board. But some projects are taking incremental steps.</p>

October 26 - Sustainable Industries

<p>This opinion piece looks at how technology alone can't be depended on to solve the environmental threats of climate change. Land use and development patterns must also be addressed.</p>

October 26 - The San Francisco Chronicle

<p>Major league stadiums are turning to planners to help deal with the parking snafus that can keep fans from coming to games.</p>

October 26 - The Street

<p>Recent polls show that anti-development sentiment is stronger than ever, with 75 percent of Americans opposing new development in their communities.</p>

October 26 - CNN/Money

<p>The mayor of Austin, Texas, wants his city to consider funding a passenger rail system to traverse the city -- a more extensive system than the commuter rail line currently being built in the Austin area.</p>

October 25 - Austin American Statesman

<p>Oil reserves in Canada have the mouths of investors watering, and many Canadians willing to accept the vast environmental degradation that will result from the oil's extraction.</p>

October 25 - OnEarth

<p>China's rapid development is creating a demand for electricity that far outpaces the ability of suppliers to insert alternative energy sources -- those with fewer greenhouse gas emissions -- into the supply chain.</p>

October 25 - The New York Times

<p>Planners of the 2010 Winter Olympics are discussing ways to encourage Vancouverites to ditch their cars during the games.</p>

October 25 - The Globe & Mail

<p>A former dump in Israel will be converted into a theme park focusing on recycling -- the centerpiece to what will be a 2,000 acre public park.</p>

October 25 - The New York Times