The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>Jaime Lerner's bold actions helped convince Curitiba's residents to adopt change and created a model for the world to follow -- even as the city faces new challenges to its much lauded transit and waste collection programs.</p>

May 21 - The New York Times

FEATURE

If a correlation exists between birth rates and urbanization, does the post World War II baby boom owe its existence to urban sprawl?

May 21 - Sriram Khé, PhD

<p>Not since oil prices peaked in 1981 have vehicle-miles-traveled dropped as they have for the past 18 months. Rising gas prices, expanded public transportation, aging of the population, and urban revitalization deserve much of the credit.</p>

May 21 - USA Today

<p>Following up on a series from three years ago, the Cleveland Plain Dealer finds that much hopeful talk on the benefits of regional cooperation have yet to translate into actual reform.</p>

May 21 - The Cleveland Plain Dealer

<p>Menlo Park, California, struggles with the compatibility of being green and fighting climate change, while resisting high density housing, even around transit stations and corridors.</p>

May 20 - Menlo Park Almanac

<p>Metro Atlanta's boom probably won't last unless state and local leaders tackle the worsening traffic and begin investing in public transit.</p>

May 20 - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

<p>Transit officials in Minneapolis are happy about the rise in gas prices -- a trend that has caused an increase in ridership. The city's cyclists and environmentalists are also finding benefits.</p>

May 20 - Minneapolis Star-Tribune

<p>A program to redistribute farmland from wealthy landowners to the rural poor in Venezuela has shown success for the new farmers as well as violence on both sides of the struggle.</p>

May 20 - International Herald Tribune

<p>The Boston suburb of Boxford is on the verge of approving a measure that would allow residents to rent extra housing space at state affordable housing prices. Boxford and other suburbs are looking to reduce their low stock of affordable housing.</p>

May 20 - The Boston Globe

<p>City dwellers and suburban homeowners alike are seeking solutions to muffle the constant stream of sound in their homes.</p>

May 19 - The New York Times

<p>Many modern day manufactured homes have upgraded their looks, attracting both buyers looking for value as well as style and sustainability.</p>

May 19 - San Jose Mercury News

<p>New plans to clean up the Mapocho River demonstrate Chile's desire to turn Santiago into attractive city and regional business hub.</p>

May 19 - Bloomberg

<p>During a press conference about the Clinton Foundation's efforts to promote green building, the former U.S. President gave Mayor Bloomberg's congesting pricing plan a thumbs up.</p>

May 19 - International Herald Tribune

<p>The Masdar Initiative is billed as the first zero carbon and waste free city to be ever constructed.</p>

May 19 - Fosters and Partners Press Release

<p>The 20-year plan proposes an airport rail link, extensions to the transit system and the bicycle network, new streetcar lines, and tolls on major highways and bridge links to the island. City council will vote on this plan in the fall.</p>

May 18 - CBC News

<p>A growing movement of eco-conscious homeowners are choosing to forgo commercial power service in favor of their home-based systems based on solar and wind generators.</p>

May 18 - The New York Times

<p>King County Metro plans to add 500 new hybrid buses to its fleet -- increasing service by nearly a third.</p>

May 18 - The Seattle Times

<p>A new website promises to link eco-conscious commuters who are looking to carpool to work.</p>

May 18 - Cambridge Chronicle

<p>City leaders hopes the new codes, replacing the current regulations which were adopted in 1968, will make it easier to build safe and sustainable buildings.</p>

May 18 - International Construction Review

<p>Though the country has experienced an economic boom, the number of Indians living in slums has increased 100 percent in the last two decades.</p>

May 18 - Times Online UK