The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>EPA is expected to issue a regulation for Yucca Mountain, Nevada -- the proposed site for a massive nuclear waste repository -- that will extend one million years into the future. A universal warning sign that will last 10,000 years is selected.</p>

November 30 - National Public Radio

<p>Describing the impact of universities can be challenging for both higher education and Technology-Based Economic Development (TBED). Two new reports demonstrate the importance of higher education institutions to a local economy.</p>

November 30 - State Science & Technology Institute

<p>The latest results from an annual survey once again confirms that a large majority of citizens are unsupportive of more growth and development in their communities.</p>

November 30 - Globe St.com

<p>This month Kansas City, Missouri, voters approved a petition-initiated light rail plan that specified the use of wireless technology. Will the city be the first in the U.S. to use it?</p>

November 30 - The Kansas City Star

<p>Often reviled for its gritty neighborhood, the University of Southern California is reaching out to its surrounding communities and putting forth initiatives to bridge the town-gown divide and spur economic development.</p>

November 30 - The Planning Report

<p>This photo slide show gives a detailed look at one of Venezuela's most populated barrios. With more than 120,000 people in 237 acres, the barrio is in control of its infrastructure construction, as well as its transportation planning.</p>

November 30 - BBC

<p>Inner-city regeneration in the central business district of Johannesburg, South Africa, have turned the area around from being an abandoned and dangerous neighborhood into one flourishing with active businesses and residents.</p>

November 30 - Business Day

<p>Condensed from a 40-page report, economic commentator Gary Shilling highlights the precarious state of America's housing market and overall economy.</p>

November 30 - FXStreet.com

<p>Urbanists lament the cookie-cutter retail landscape, but the fact remains that national chains provide the types of goods and services that consumers want.</p>

November 30 - The Atlantic Monthly

<p>After decades of pressure from a neighboring multi-billion dollar healthcare agency, a dwindling congregation cashes in $8 million offer, while a new parking garage and emergency room will replace the historic church.</p>

November 30 - Tacoma News Tribune

<p>Neal Peirce reviews a Brookings Institution report that proposes a bold new vision for the 'economically stagnant' Great Lakes region.</p>

November 29 - The Washington Post Writers Group

<p>A casino proposal shoots the Civil War battlefield to the top of the list of Pennsylvania's endangered historic places.</p>

November 29 - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

<p>Planner and essayist Richard Carson provides insight into the growing property rights movement.</p>

November 29 - Public Management Magazine

<p>A regional planning agency in the Bay Area is including TOD as a strategy to help the Bay Area meet its AB 32 goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.</p>

November 29 - San Francisco Examiner

<p>Los Angeles, with one of the smallest arboreal canopies of any major American city, has launched an initiative to plant one million trees over the next few years.</p>

November 29 - The Planning Report

<p>Despite the sudden sale and closure of Portland's once vibrant public market, one pizza parlor owner continues to incur large losses but refuses to shut down.</p>

November 29 - Portland Press Herald

<p>Even with variety of housing options for seniors, the state still has a long waiting list for units affordable to low-income people.</p>

November 29 - The New York Times

<p>Profound demographic, economic, and cultural forces are reshaping the nation, and have major significance for urbanization in America, says Robert Puentes, a fellow at the Brookings Institution.</p>

November 29 - The Brookings Institution

FEATURE

By hosting public outreach sessions and design clinics with registered landscape architects, Atlanta-area non-profit Park Pride is giving communities an active role in creating a new vision for their neighborhood greenspaces.

November 29 - Nandita Godbole

<p>A new Canadian company has matched GPS-coordinated street-level camcorder shots of Toronto with mapping software to enable a real-life horizontal view of any coordinate, allowing users to preview a destination before visiting.</p>

November 29 - The Globe and Mail