The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>After a decade spent redesigning the public realm, Melbourne, Australia is a haven of people-oriented development and mobility.</p>

May 11 - Streetsblog

<p>In this travelogue, <em>Dwell</em> tours the often-overlooked infrastructure that keeps the metropolis of Los Angeles running.</p>

May 10 - Dwell

<p>By looking closely at the key factors that helped London's congestion charge succeed, other cities can decipher whether a similar scheme would work in their jurisdictions.</p>

May 10 - The Toronto Star

<p>A planned New Urbanist development in Northern California wants enable its eventual residents to live within their prescribed ecological footprint.</p>

May 10 - The Washington Post

<p>Planning students today care as much about the social aspects of cities as they do of their physical design, says Mohsen Mostafavi, the new dean at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design.</p>

May 10 - The Boston Globe

<p>One country stands out in Europe in surpassing the greenhouse gas emission reductions required by the Kyoto Protocol - Sweden. While it used several environmental technologies to achieve those reductions, experts give credit to its carbon tax.</p>

May 10 - The Guardian

<p>A mom has filed a $100 claim against the city of Norwalk, Connecticut, after her one-year-old son stepped in dog feces on city property.</p>

May 9 - Stamford Advocate

<p>Urban farms are popping up in New York and elsewhere, providing residents with access to fresh, affordable produce.</p>

May 9 - The New York Times

<p>The developer of the Tejon Ranch agreed to a plan to put permanent conservation easements on almost 375 square miles of ranch lands and wilderness 60 miles north of Los Angeles, in exchange for rights to develop 10 percent of its land holdings.</p>

May 9 - The New York Times

<p>Massachusetts wants to require affordable housing developers to pay construction workers a "prevailing wage", but with costs already totaling $200,000 or more per unit, the proposal may ultimately decrease the amount of affordable housing built.</p>

May 9 - The Boston Globe

<p>Transit operators around the country are looking at ways to make taking public transportation even more environmentally friendly.</p>

May 9 - USA Today

<p>This piece from <em>The Cleveland Free Times</em> argues that policy can and does encourage sprawl, and none of the candidates running for president will do anything to combat these policies. Meanwhile, American cities will continue to die off.</p>

May 9 - The Cleveland Free Times

<p>Builders and planners are gathering in Detroit to discuss funding options for brownfield redevelopment and learn from region's experience transforming these community eyesores.</p>

May 9 - Christian Madera

<p>Biking gets serious in New York, where the city is investing millions in a system of dedicated bike lanes.</p>

May 9 - The Los Angeles Times

<p>There is very, very little new housing construction in most of California, where the number of housing starts is down 75% from the boom year of 2005. One result is layoffs for planners, building inspectors and plan checkers.</p>

May 9 - California Planning & Development Report

<p>A new report examines the impacts of the mortgage meltdown on rental housing.</p>

May 9 - Joint Center for Housing Studies

<p>Water shortages have hammered the Atlanta region. But despite the drought, one real estate developer is planning to build a huge water park.</p>

May 8 - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

<p>What do you do when 96 football fields worth of space opens up in a major metro area?</p>

May 8 - The Los Angeles Times

<p>With 70 percent of its waste already diverted from landfills, San Francisco continues to push forward with new laws and programs to increase recycling.</p>

May 8 - The New York Times

<p>In two separate examples, a <em>Los Angeles Times</em> columnist shows how stakeholders with money tend to win the support of local politicians more often than the less fortunate.</p>

May 8 - The Los Angeles Times