The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>A group of planners and architects has put forth an alternative light rail proposal that they believe is more practical than a plan already approved by voters.</p>

May 9 - The Kansas City Star

<p>In an effort to development more moderately priced housing, developers around Sacramento are squeezing more homes per acre and moving garages to the back alley, pleasing some planners and conservationists.</p>

May 8 - The Sacramento Bee

<p>New technology allows us to manage traffic flow better than ever before, but we need to shift away from reliance on gas taxes, which are failing to deliver necessary revenue, a new Reason study argues.</p>

May 8 - Reason Foundation

<p>A new vision of development in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming is taking shape.</p>

May 8 - Sonoran Institute

<p>While it seems environmental friendliness is the latest bandwagon trend, this column offers the top ten reasons why green business is sticking around.</p>

May 8 - GreenBiz.com

<p>In this Wall Street Journal editorial, the author analyzes Census data to argue that famed "Coastal Megalopolises" such as Los Angeles, Boston, New York and San Francisco are actually becoming America's equivalent of Mexico City and São Paulo.</p>

May 8 - The Wall Street Journal

<p>Crews will soon begin installing metered parking on many of the city's free curbside parking spaces in an effort to move residents away from private cars.</p>

May 8 - The Seattle Post-Intelligencer

<p>Washington University Medical Center Executive Director Brian Phillips -- who lived in the infamous Pruitt-Igoe public housing project as a child -- is leading the efforts to redevelop the surrounding neighborhoods.</p>

May 8 - Washington University Record

<p>An agreement between 21 nations has banned the highly destructive commercial fishing practice known as bottom trawling in the South Pacific seas, which accounts for more than one-quarter of the world's oceans.</p>

May 8 - BBC

<p>Planners in Eugene, Oregon, have nixed plans for light rail in favor of a bus rapid transit system. However, they say the system's dedicated lanes could be converted into light rail routes in the future if the population increases enough.</p>

May 8 - The Columbian

<p>California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has pledged his support for high speed rail in the state, and has called on legislators to draft a comprehensive plan to fund the project.</p>

May 8 - The Fresno Bee

<p>The beach community of Jacksonville Beach invites Florida's own walking expert Dan Burden to walk its streets with them.</p>

May 8 - Jacksonville Times Union

<p>Edgy architecture and varied development along the Seine Riverfront in Paris has many in the city predicting an economic surge for the aging urban area. But others say the land should be used for parks and open space.</p>

May 8 - The New York Times

<p>Major initiative to upgrade a transportation system trying to keep up with China's rapid economic growth includes high-speed trains and what is reportedly the world's largest bus.</p>

May 7 - The Los Angeles Times

<p>Pittsburgh was just named America's "most livable city," but don't try telling that to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review's Bill Steigerwald. In a column for Reason.com, Steigerwald writes, "Pittsburgh is in a death spiral.</p>

May 7 - Reason Online

<p>The "Places Rated Almanac" ranks Pittsburgh as the nation's most livable city. Rounding out the top three are San Francisco and Seattle.</p>

May 7 - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

<p>Seattle-based affordable housing developers use the city's green building standards and grant programs to get many affordable housing projects started in the city and beyond.</p>

May 7 - The Seattle Post-Intelligencer

<p>With world's urbanized population now at 50 percent, urban living seems set to be the global norm -- though its unclear if many cities can cope with the challenge.</p>

May 7 - The Economist

<p>Downtown redevelopment plans that will bring a hotel and retail complex and create a transit-oriented pedestrian-only plaza have been unanimously approved in Berkeley, California.</p>

May 7 - The San Francisco Chronicle

<p>With strong municipal involvement, the town of Roubaix has attracted textile shops and created cultural places in industrial buildings.</p>

May 7 - BBC News