The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>Los Angeles has one of the world's most advanced traffic detection systems, enabling it to manipulate traffic signals on the fly by using real-time data. But This data is saved for only a few days, limiting the extensive data's long-term use.</p>

October 2 - The Los Angeles Times

<p>With their vineyards threatened by 2004's land use law Measure 37, Oregon's winemakers are getting behind this November's ballot Measure 49 as a way to preserve their land and their business.</p>

October 2 - The Oregonian

<p>Three newly built houses in Toronto have fallen in line with a citywide plan to promote more infill housing. They have also garnered attention in the world of architecture by being included in a tour organized by <em>Architectural Digest</em>.</p>

October 2 - The Toronto Star

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<p> To paraphrase the New York Times&#39; summation of the Anaheim Angels&#39; rhetorical exodus to Los Angeles a few years ago: some ideas are so stupid that you just have to stand back and watch. To that I would add, some things are so stupid that they deserve derision no matter how long ago they occured. Though it crawled out from the Senate floor in the summer of 2005, SAFETEA-LU -- the $240 billion federal transportation bill -- has, for the past two years, gotten off way too easy. </p>

October 1 - Josh Stephens

<p>On his first trip to Paris, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg enjoyed an unprecedented second glass of red wine at lunch, and eyed the popular bike rental program, pondering its suitability for New York City streets.</p>

October 1 - The New York Times

<p>Despite a recent wave of crime, the Boston Common continues to bring people together from all walks of life.</p>

October 1 - The Boston Globe

<p>Why many cities attempts to create city-wide wireless networks have failed....and why some cities have been successful.</p>

October 1 - Slate

<p>New York City planners are hoping to use a new anti-paving ordinance to stop residents from creating parking lots out of their front yards.</p>

October 1 - Queens Chronicle

<p>Architects in New York are trying to develop new types of long-term temporary housing as part of a design competition sponsored by the city and non-profit groups.</p>

October 1 - Newsday

<p>New research shows that newcomers to urban areas take up twice as much room as longtime residents.</p>

October 1 - The Minnesota Daily

<p>The city's updated blueprint for its downtown area, part of a new citywide master plan, focuses its attention on the area's west side.</p>

October 1 - Small Business Times

<p>A number of ideas for improving public transit and reducing congestion are floating around Los Angeles. But without consensus, it may be a long while before any of the proposed solutions is realized.</p>

October 1 - Los Angeles City Beat

<p>A proposal to expand Seattle's light rail system also includes provisions for extensive road construction, putting transit advocates in the awkward position of voting for both transit and roads.</p>

October 1 - The Seattle Stranger

<p>The deterioration of Ontario's aging roadways and bridges isn't emerging as an issue in Provincial elections.</p>

October 1 - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Janson Text'">I live a ten-minute cab ride from the airport. I love it. Many a morning, I have stumbled down the porch steps in flip-flops and a business suit, carrying an overnight bag and high heels to make a flight in an hour’s time. Several weeks ago, I stepped into a cab and chirped my usual, “Good morning—National Airport, please!” and settled back into the seat, ready to finish applying eyeshadow. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Janson Text'">“Do you know how to get there?,” the driver asked.</span></p>

September 30 - Jess Zimbabwe

<p>This column from <em>The Washington Post</em> discusses the other most important criteria for development: timing.</p>

September 30 - The Washington Post

<p>A new study by Mark Delucchi, research scientist at the U.C. Davis Institute for Transportation Studies, has found that "motor-vehicle users in the U.S. -- unlike users in most European countries -- do not 'pay their way.'"</p>

September 30 - Streetsblog

<p>The construction of a new office tower on Russia Wharf exemplifies an improving commercial real estate market in Boston.</p>

September 30 - The Boston Globe

<p>Corporations have long been able to use regulatory instruments and the courts to override community interests to gain access to resources or to site noxious land uses. Now communities are fighting back.</p>

September 30 - Yes! Magazine

<p>Sprawling Calgary, Alberta, may have the biggest ecological footprint of any city in Canada -- and no municipal recycling program -- but will soon supply 75% of its energy needs through wind power.</p>

September 30 - The Globe & Mail