The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<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

<p>While other countries around the globe forge ahead with investment in transportation innovations such as road congestion pricing and high speed rail, the U.S. takes a wait and see attitude.</p>

May 18 - Truckinginfo.com

<p>After initially supporting the city's new mixed-use ordinance, some residents of East Austin asking the city to apply the brakes on adoption of the measure due to concerns about gentrification.</p>

May 18 - Austin American-Statesman

<p>With D.C. neighborhoods attracting new white upper-income residents and lower-income black families fleeing for the more affordable suburbs, the nation's capital is poised to lose its longtime status as a black-majority city.</p>

May 18 - The Washington Post

<p>At the C40 Climate Summit in New York City, the Mayor of London explained the role that local business played in implementing that city's congestion pricing program.</p>

May 18 - Streetsblog

<p>Lawmakers in Arizona are hoping to get two land-use measures on the ballot that would allow the state to sell off trust land to conservationists, and make right-of-way lands available for road construction.</p>

May 18 - The Business Journal of Phoenix

<p>A compilation of articles addressing common questions concerning global warming.</p>

May 17 - NewScientist.com

<p>Bruce Katz of The Brookings Institution argues that the health and vitality of cities will determine which nations will prosper in this century -- which he has dubbed the 'Urban Age'.</p>

May 17 - The Brookings Institution

<p>Some markets have experienced a dramatic increase in housing listings, according to a report by ZipRealty, a California real estate broker.</p>

May 17 - CNN Money

<p>Alexander Trevi comments on playground equipment designed to provide local clean water supply in developing countries.</p>

May 17 - Pruned

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May 17 - Todd Litman

<p>While lower-class neighborhoods struggle to recover, an active civic organization is using land speculation and market forces to rebuild a neighborhood in New Orleans.</p>

May 17 - The York Dispatch

<p>A program spearheaded by former President Bill Clinton will see green upgrades made to public buildings in 15 global cities.</p>

May 17 - The Chicago Tribune

<p>Denser urban development patterns that encourage walking and transit use could be a convenient remedy for the inconvenient truth of climate change.</p>

May 17 - Philadelphia Inquirer