The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>Sao Paulo Brazil has implemented a ban on outdoor advertising, calling it "visual pollution."</p>

August 22 - AlterNet

<p>The fact that many people in Portland, Oregon ride bikes is no surprise. And while many of those bikers are typically more serious bike enthusiast, the city is seeing an unexpected shift that has more and more "regular Joes and Janes" biking as well.</p>

August 22 - The Oregonian

<p>A new report examining thoughtful urban land stewardship around the world finds that preserving natural capital yields big dividends for cities.</p>

August 22 - The Canada West Foundation

<p>Greenpeace is claiming that a Brazilian scheme to settle tens of thousands of families has become little more than a "scam" to sell off logging rights in the Amazon.</p>

August 22 - Michael Dudley

<p>More than 650 miles of Seattle streets have no sidewalks, and residents are demanding them. But with limited transportation funding, the city is struggling to find ways to pay for sidewalk construction.</p>

August 22 - The Seattle Times

<p>The City of Sacramento is looking to change its growth pattern as it prepares a new version of its general plan.</p>

August 22 - The Sacramento Bee

<p>With more than $2 billion worth of redevelopment projects underway, Washington D.C.'s riverfront areas are in the midst of a waterfront renaissance.</p>

August 22 - The Washington Post

<p>Plans to extend Melbourne, Australia's already-extensive freeway system are short-sighted and illustrate the lack of true planning vision in the city, according to this column from <em>The Age</em>.</p>

August 21 - The Age

<p>Los Angeles is one of the most parks-deficient cities on the West coast. How planners address this shortage will shape the future of the city, writes Christopher Hawthorne.</p>

August 21 - The Los Angeles Times

<p>Drive-in movie theaters are satisfying a need for public spaces that also allow some privacy.</p>

August 21 - The Globe and Mail

<p>This article from <em>The New York Times</em> discusses the history of the city's famed walkability, and talks to some of the people who take New York City walking to the extreme.</p>

August 21 - The New York Times

<p>The pending Senate Energy Bill will support a "new generation" nuclear power plants. But they will be no different from the last generation, which have been a "lethal failure" according to Harvey Wasserman.</p>

August 21 - Common Dreams

<p>Plans to construct a trans-Texas highway corridor have theorists speculating that this transportation infrastructure is the first step in a secret plan to create a North American union between the U.S., Mexico, and Canada.</p>

August 21 - The Houston Chronicle

<p>Many American cities are looking to new ways of handling their homeless populations, including programs that provide assistance in renting permanent housing rather than pouring money into temporary shelters.</p>

August 21 - The Christian Science Monitor

<p>Facing residential opposition, city officials in suburban Minneapolis are having trouble getting sidewalks built in many neighborhoods. The residents argue that sidewalks are not needed in the suburbs.</p>

August 21 - Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune

<p>Columnist Neil Peirce writes on the need to address the road infrastructure crisis illustrated by the I-35W bridge collapse. Rather than boosting the federal gas tax, he advocates a 'Big New Tax' based on 'weight per wheel' of new vehicles.</p>

August 21 - Newport News, Va., Daily Press

<p>A new report looks at how reducing the amount of driving can create sizable economic benefits for cities.</p>

August 21 - The Oregonian

<p>A flood of developments are rejuvenating downtown Jackson, Mississippi.</p>

August 21 - Architectural Record

<p>Great Britain has emerged as the center for the new ‘carbon market’ industry that will play a key role in providing the funds necessary to produce clean energy and fight global warming.</p>

August 20 - AP via San Mateo Daily Journal

<p>Four unincorporated communities in Atlanta have become new cities...and outsourced neary all government services to private corporations.</p>

August 20 - The Los Angeles Times