The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>In an attempt to discourage urban youth from hanging out in the foyers of apartment buildings, French authorities in Le Havre built them their own faux foyer -- with mixed results.</p>

October 18 - The Globe & Mail

<p>A new report finds that the transfer of development rights from one area to another is simple in concept, but difficult in implementation.</p>

October 18 - Center for Environmental Excellence

<p>Private ownership of the site of ancient Mayan ruins in Mexico have legislators clamoring to claim the site as property of the country.</p>

October 18 - The Christian Science Monitor

<p>Los Angeles will receive $150 million from the state to improve synchronization of its traffic lights, but transportation planners say the new money won't really do a lot to ease congestion.</p>

October 18 - The Los Angeles Times

<p>New York mayor Michael Bloomberg's widely-touted plan for a greener city have left out the major energy consumer in Manhattan: the thousands of buildings not owned by the city.</p>

October 17 - The Gotham Gazette

<p>New Census data has shown that 4 out of 10 immigrants move directly to suburbs after entering the country, mainly because that's where the jobs are.</p>

October 17 - The New York Times

<p>As land continues to subside in the Mississippi Delta, scientists are looking to natural systems to provide the flood control man-made infrastructure has failed to provide.</p>

October 17 - Terra Daily

<p>Robin Chase, co-founder of Zipcar, talks about how wireless technology can be part of a short-term solution to CO2 emissions.</p>

October 17 - Streetsblog

<p>In Palo Alto, California, -- one of the country's most affluent and least affordable cities -- the City Council and residents are now wrestling with a regional housing allocation assigned by the Association of Bay Area Governments.</p>

October 17 - Palo Alto Daily News

<p>The New York City Parks and Recreation Department is being criticized for continuing to use Amazonian Ipe wood for its park benches and boardwalks.</p>

October 17 - AlterNet

<p>Condos and luxury high-rise residential buildings are sprouting up next to a number of the country's pro baseball stadiums.</p>

October 17 - Architectural Record

<p>Mexico City police forced street vendors from nearly 100 streets recently in an effort to clean up the city. But the vendors vow to return.</p>

October 17 - Associated Press via Oakland Tribune

<p>Plans to roll out a nationwide road-pricing system in the UK may be dropped.</p>

October 17 - The Guardian

<p>At a time when funding is a major concern, a congressional hearing later this month will look at the transportation needs of Chicago as it tries to win hosting duties for the 2016 Olympics.</p>

October 17 - The Chicago Tribune

<p>A proposal to update the streetscape of a historic Gold Rush-era street in California has local preservationists on the defense.</p>

October 16 - The Sacramento Bee

<p>Protesting a road-widening plan that would eat up some of their properties, residents in Halifax, Nova Scotia, recently moved furniture into their front yards to create outdoor living rooms in the space transportation planners have proposed to take.</p>

October 16 - The Globe and Mail

<p>Spreading urbanization is eating up green spaces, bringing wildlife -- and hunters -- into closer contact with urban dwellers.</p>

October 16 - Time

<p>The most severe drought in the last 100 years has states and municipalities scrambling to conserve what little water they have left.</p>

October 16 - The New York Times

<p>In this Q&amp;A, <em>Metropolis Magazine</em> talks with landscape architect Mia Lehrer about her work on the 1,300 acre California park taking shape in Irvine.</p>

October 16 - Metropolis Magazine

<p>The 164-story Barj Dubai is just one of many examples of architecture's new obsession with enormous buildings. While undeniably spectacular, these structures also raise questions about their social and environmental sustainability.</p>

October 16 - The Globe & Mail