The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>"ViralKauai" posts a self-made video on YouTube pointing out the problems from overdevelopment of the beautiful island of Kauai.</p>

August 31 - YouTube

<p>An 'urban heat island' effect, fed by the city's growth, is trapping heat and making temperatures soar.</p>

August 31 - The Christian Science Monitor

<p>In a trend being seen across the country, a 316-unit apartment complex will soon replace one of the last remaining drive-in movie theaters in the state of Colorado.</p>

August 31 - The Denver Post

<p>New archaeological findings suggest that ancient Mesopotamian cities did not develop by spreading outward from a central point, but rather by clustering nearby villages into larger cities.</p>

August 31 - New Scientist

<p>As ridership increases on Portland, Oregon's light rail lines, more and more cyclists are bringing their bikes on the trains, which is causing tensions over limited space.</p>

August 31 - The Oregonian

<p>Mumbai is on the verge of becoming the second-biggest city in the world. But to get there, redevelopment will require the displacement of thousands, if not millions.</p>

August 31 - The Economist

<p>This article from the <em>Guardian</em> looks at the feasibility of putting in place a recently-announced proposal to make Britain carbon-neutral by 2050.</p>

August 31 - The Guardian

<p>Sprawling housing developments and shopping center parking lots threaten many historic battlefields, such as the site of Abraham Lincoln's famed Gettysburg Address.</p>

August 31 - The Christian Science Monitor

<p>Transportation planners in metropolitan Atlanta have drawn up a preliminary map that outlines what an ambitious 12-county transit system could look like.</p>

August 31 - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

<p>A proposed rail line connecting the Washington D.C. region to its international airport remains mired in delays. Many are blaming confusion and mixed coordination amongst the project's many stakeholders and backers.</p>

August 31 - The Washington Post

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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Last month, the Mayors’ Institute on City Design hosted a regional session in partnership with the </font><a href="http://www.caup.washington.edu/"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3" color="#800080">University of Washington</font></a><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">, and we were fortunate that the session’s organizers</font><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> were able to secure meeting space in the entry pavilion to the Seattle Art Museum’s </font><a href="http://www.seattleartmuseum.org/visit/OSP/default.asp"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3" color="#800080">Olympic Sculpture Park</font></a><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">.

August 30 - Jess Zimbabwe

<p>With limited funding for historic preservation programs, many states are looking to resident curator programs that allow people to live rent free in historic homes in exchange for preserving them.</p>

August 30 - The New York Times

<p>Engineering and environmental problems abound near China's Three Gorges Dam.</p>

August 30 - The Wall Street Journal

<p>Facing one of the driest years in recent history, the city of Los Angeles is feeling the pinch of the drought. Officials have suggested reconsidering a once-proposed and once-disapproved plan to recycle wastewater back into the groundwater.</p>

August 30 - The Los Angeles Times

<p>Brazil is considering a bold plan to get water to its arid northeast by diverting one of the country's largest and most famous rivers. But many are protesting the plan, saying the water will mainly benefit business, not the rural poor who need it.</p>

August 30 - NPR

<p>Complaints over parking have led the city of Martinez, California, to realize an affordable housing complex built for seniors has been renting at market rates for years.</p>

August 30 - The Contra Costa Times

<p>When it comes to reducing carbon footprints and living sustainably, urban residents perform the best.</p>

August 30 - MSN

<p>Tallinn, the capital city of Estonia, has been widely celebrated in recent years as one of the most historic and, at the same time, most thoroughly high-tech cities in Eastern Europe.</p>

August 30 - Der Spiegel

<p>Despite scientific findings that trees along levees help improve their effectiveness, federal regulations may require that trees lining levees in Central California be removed.</p>

August 30 - The Sacramento Bee

<p>From floating homes to green building to a public housing country club, the city of New Orleans has been pushed to take creative measures towards rebuilding and recovering after Hurricane Katrina.</p>

August 30 - The Los Angeles Times