The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>The Minneapolis City Council has proposed measures that would limit the size of new houses in the city -- a move targeting oversized 'McMansion' homes that already account for about 1% of the housing stock.</p>

June 25 - Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune

<p>With a favorable federal tax incentive, more and more people are donating land in the form of conservation easements -- agreements that set aside the land and prevent future development.</p>

June 24 - The New York Times

<p>Once considered "sprawl" by Londoners, the city's row houses now form the essence of the city. Are attacks of sprawl in the US built on "an extremely shaky foundation of class-based aesthetic assumptions and misinformation?"</p>

June 24 - Forbes

<p>Drivers are increasingly looking to save not only time but also gas money by utilizing high occupancy toll lanes in cities that have implemented tolls.</p>

June 24 - The Wall Street Journal

<p>Architype profiles 8 new and renovated urban public libraries in the words of their design teams.</p>

June 24 - ArchiType Review

<p>In Boston's Fort Point Channel district, redeveloping historic warehouses into luxury residences is easier said than done.</p>

June 24 - The Boston Globe

<p>Now 50 years old, BART looks to the future with a 50-year plan for vast system improvements and expansions throughout the Bay Area including a new transbay tube between Oakland and San Francisco, and an East Bay station in downtown Martinez.</p>

June 23 - The San Francisco Chronicle

<p>Downtown Los Angeles has long stood in for other cities in Hollywood movies. But the area's new burgeoning residential population is clashing with movie makers over filming.</p>

June 23 - Variety

<p>Citing the need for larger battle spaces for military exercises, the U.S. Army has announced plans to acquire up to 5 million acres to expand its bases.</p>

June 23 - USA Today

<p>Successful recording artists Harry Connick Jr. and Branford Marsalis teamed up with Habitat for Humanity to develop a neighborhood specifically for the city's musicians.</p>

June 23 - Architecture Record

<p>After pursuing a single-player, single-project strategy for decades, Detroit seems to have found a winning recipe for redevelopment with its new RiverWalk, which stressed regional cooperation from various public, private and non-profit organizations.</p>

June 23 - The Detroit Free Press

<p>A single parking space in a small beachside community in England has been put on sale for nearly $50,000, twice the town's average yearly salary. But some say the price is not unreasonable.</p>

June 22 - BBC

<p>Author Robert Bruegmann and activist Gloria Ohland continue their week-long debate on planning issues. Today's topic is mass transit and the automobile.</p>

June 22 - The Los Angeles Times

<p>Once a month, a Minnesota drug store transforms itself into a neighborhood town hall meeting place where Democratic candidates vying for nearly any Minnesota office come to discuss and debate issues with the people they look to represent.</p>

June 22 - NPR

<p>The Oregon Legislature has passed a bill that will increase penalties to drivers who carelessly injure or kill pedestrians, cyclists, and other "vulnerable" road users. Convicted offenders could face a one-year license suspension.</p>

June 22 - The Oregonian

<p>Vacation home owners are getting involved in local issues in their second communities.</p>

June 22 - The New York Times

<p>A recent report from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has revealed that despite billions of dollars in improvements, many areas of New Orleans still face a significant threat of flooding.</p>

June 22 - The New York Times

<p>'Vertical farming' -- the idea of growing crops and livestock in high-rise buildings -- could be a solution to the high environmental costs of transporting food from distant farms to dense urban areas.</p>

June 22 - BBC

<p>With nearly $17 billion dollars available for reconstruction, New Orleans officials are calling upon south Florida's construction firms to help handle the demand.</p>

June 22 - The Miami Herald

<p>Once-blighted areas of downtown Louisville, Kentucky, have seen huge increases in development and property values recently -- a trend many attribute to public initiatives that encourage private investors. But other factors are also causing the boom.</p>

June 22 - The Courier-Journal