The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>The newly released blueprint by Mayor Ray Nagin and Recovery Chief Ed Blakely may be the type of practical redevelopment plan New Orleans has been waiting for all along.</p>

April 3 - The Times Picayune

<p>A new survey has named Calgary the cleanest and most sanitary city in the world.</p>

April 3 - The Globe and Mail

<p>The regional government in Portland, Oregon, has set its sights on buying up thousands of acres of scenic lands for open space and parks. The voter-approved buy is part of a plan to improve many of the region's public spaces.</p>

April 3 - The Oregonian

<p>Planning activists in San Francisco are working to encourage infill development without neglecting social equity concerns.</p>

April 3 - WorldChanging

<p>Federal forest management policy changes made by the Bush administration have been ruled illegal for not making proper environmental impact considerations.</p>

April 3 - Washington Post via The Seattle Times

<p>Plans to use fees charged to developers for building parks and open spaces in Seattle have been abandoned.</p>

April 3 - The Seattle Times

<p>Wealthy retirees who value city living over golf courses are creating demand for new urban, high-rise retirement communities.</p>

April 3 - The New York Times

<p>The Swedish furniture company is hoping to capitalize on its design sense and efficient manufacturing to expand the market for prefabricated housing.</p>

April 3 - The Guardian Unlimited

<p>Under new rules put in place by Mayor Marcelo Ebrard, public officials in Mexico City are required to ride their bikes to work at least once per month.</p>

April 3 - BBC

<p>Marcos M. Villatoro responds to receiving a "clumsy, ham-fisted" form letter from the Los Angeles Unified School District informing him that his house is one of the many to be taken to build a new elementary school.</p>

April 2 - The Los Angeles Times

BLOG POST

<p>So I went to see two new New Urbanist communities this weekend - <a href="http://www.warwick-grove.com">Warwick Grove</a> in the Mid-Hudson Valley, about 50 miles from NYC, and <a href="http://www.sharbell.com/html/plainsborovillagecenter.html">Plainsboro Village Center</a> in central N.J.</p>

April 2 - Anonymous

<p>A new web tool offers a way to check the climate risk of individual homes. The service is a collaboration between a private firm and three University of Arizona scientists.</p>

April 2 - USA Today

<p>A new documentary called Radiant City paints a peculiar portrait of contemporary suburbia.</p>

April 2 - The Globe & Mail

<p>A small town in upstate New York struggles to craft an ordinance to limit wind energy turbines.</p>

April 2 - The Daily Star, Oneonta, NY

BLOG POST

I&#39;m just back from China. Waht a week. Among other amazing experiences, we got to go for a ride in one of only 19 GM Sequel hydrogen minivans. <p>The car is remarkably similar to a regular vehicle, except for a small computer screen on the dash that provides a detailed diagnostic readout on the hydrogen fuel cell stack.</p> <p> That&#39;s my colleague Mike Liebhold of the Institute for the Future behind the wheel.</p>

April 2 - Anthony Townsend

<p>Light rail, bus rapid transit and dedicated lanes are all up for consideration in Virginia's Hampton Roads metropolitan region. The area is studying options that may give the area -- where streetcars once prospered -- a familiar feel.</p>

April 2 - Hampton Roads Daily Press

<p>While some cities are attempting to drive immigrants out, others are welcoming them with open arms. As a Wall Street Journal writer asserts, "All booming American cities are immigrant cities."</p>

April 2 - The Wall Street Journal

<p>Immensely divergent interests collide as Howard County struggles with the thorny question of development.</p>

April 2 - The Baltimore Sun

<p>Mike Sabel takes an in-depth look at the future of Las Vegas, its enormous growth, and what happens when the water runs out.</p>

April 2 - The Next American City

FEATURE

Rodney Swink, past president of the American Society of Landscape Architects, celebrates the role of landscape architecture in shaping the built and natural environment.

April 2 - Rodney L. Swink