The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>The unexpectedly rapid melting of glacier ice in Greenland has scientists worried that it may be only years -- not centuries -- before rising sea levels begin to affect coastal cities like New York.</p>

October 12 - AlterNet

<p>The development of more than 200 units of affordable housing intended for teachers and public school officials has been announced in the South Bronx.</p>

October 11 - New York Daily News

<p>Winnipeg is the first Canadian city to get an Evos climbing structure, which keeps kids challenged while satisfying strict Canadian safety regulations.</p>

October 11 - The Winnipeg Free Press

<p>Opposition to Columbia University's 17-acre expansion plan reveals the good and bad about the city's community planning movement.</p>

October 11 - City Limits Weekly

<p>A Bill advocating the formation of an affordable housing trust fund will likely be vetoed by the Bush White House, which believes the program is unnecessary.</p>

October 11 - Reuters

<p>Rapid building and public works projects are destroying much of the natural environment in Japan, a country that lays 25 to 30 times more concrete than the U.S.</p>

October 11 - NPR

<p>The Reason Foundation's Sam Staley offers ideas for improving the way roads work, placing emphasis on improved tolling and mapping.</p>

October 11 - Newsday

<p>The tourism industry is booming along the Mayan Riviera on Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula. Many are worried that the ever-increasing supply of hotels and the flood of tourists will displace most of the area's local residents and hurt the environment.</p>

October 11 - The Christian Science Monitor

<p>This blog post from <em>Grist</em> looks at the often unjustifiable fear associated with biking. Author Alan Durning discusses injury rates and offers advice on how cyclists can pedal their way through cities without being killed.</p>

October 11 - Grist

<p>This report form <em>NPR</em> looks at the threats associated with building schools near freeways, and how those threats are not easy to avoid in Los Angeles.</p>

October 11 - NPR

<p>As more of the "creative class" moves to Staten Island, the area enjoys a boost in hipness.</p>

October 11 - The New York Times

<p>In the struggling city of Lawrence, Massachusetts, sub-prime mortgage foreclosures are threatening the community's stability and the longterm viability of the city's minority and working class neighborhoods.</p>

October 10 - The Boston Globe

<p>CP&amp;DR's Aaron Engstrom's offers his irreverent take on his very first APA conference.</p>

October 10 - California Planning & Development Report

<p>Urban ethnic enclaves are nothing new. But Peace Village, just north of Toronto, is: it's Canada's first all-Muslim subdivision, where houses feature separate rooms for men and women, and the streets are filled with pedestrians.</p>

October 10 - The National Post

<p>Swedish retailer Ikea has announced the availability of 90 pre-fabricated eco-freindly homes, complete with a plot of land in the English town of Gateshead. The house-land combos start at $200,000, and preference is given to low-income buyers.</p>

October 10 - The Guardian

<p>Left-leaning San Franciscans are just about fed up with the issue of homelessness in the city. Many are advocating for more strict law enforcement.</p>

October 10 - The San Francisco Chronicle

<p>In suburban Minnesota, the number of people getting up early for pre-dawn commutes to the city is on the rise, and it's changing the way businesses operate and how towns handle the demand on their roads.</p>

October 10 - Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune

<p>This article from the <em>Seattle Post-Intelligencer</em> looks at the conditions that have made Boise one of the country's most successful and thriving cities.</p>

October 10 - The Seattle Post-Intelligencer

<p>Planners at the recent California APA chapter conference were asked whether they thought the state is ready for "complex urban development". As John King explains, most said "no".</p>

October 10 - The San Francisco Chronicle

<p>Florida seems to be losing its edge at attracting new residents. More people are moving out than in, and rising costs are taking the blame.</p>

October 10 - The Wall Street Journal