The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>The dam project is being proposed on the Congo river, and could produce more than twice the amount of energy generated by China's Three Gorges Dam, currently the world's largest. If approved the dam could be operating by 2022.</p>

April 23 - The Guardian

<p>A 17-story condominium tower in Boise, Idaho is being built on a 32-foot-wide footprint. Workers talk about the challenges of constructing such a skinny building.</p>

April 23 - The Idaho Statesman

<p>Officials in Oklahoma is hoping to woo the Seattle Supersonics to relocate in Oklahoma City by offering tax incentives. One politician is hoping to advance plans for a light rail transit system by planting the idea with team officials.</p>

April 23 - The Norman Transcript

<p>City Hall in Windsor and the provincial government of Ontario are following the wrong path to revitalization, argue the creators of an influential website called Scaledown Windsor, who think Canada's 'motor city' needs to be reinvented.</p>

April 23 - The Globe and Mail

<p>Congestion pricing is really just a regressive tax thats hurt the poor, argues one New York Assemblyman. If government wants to improve transit and the environment, it should simply tax wealthy Americans more to do it.</p>

April 23 - The New York Times

<p>From mile-high skyscrapers and floating cities, a look back at some of of the impractical and unrealized dreams of architects and planners.</p>

April 23 - Wired Magazine

<p>A few eco-conscious -- and business savvy -- suburbanites are ripping up their lawns and growing vegetables to cater to the increasing demand for local produce.</p>

April 22 - The Wall Street Journal

<p>Motorists in Oregon, Washington and Idaho are using less gas per week than the average American. A recent report credits the region's public transit systems and land use policies for the reduction in fuel consumption.</p>

April 22 - The Oregonian

<p>With the nation's infrastructure in dire need of investment, a debate over the need to raise the federal gas tax is brewing in Washington, D.C.</p>

April 22 - CNN Money

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<p> <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial">Since its launch, one of the three primary goals of Vancouver&#39;s <strong><a href="http://www.vancouver-ecodensity.ca/">EcoDensity Initiative</a> </strong>has been to use density, design and land use to strategically assist with the City&#39;s growing challenges around affordability. Over the course of the long public dialogue, we&#39;ve heard many comments and questions on the relationships between density, supply, type of housing and affordability, and it’s been a very hot topic. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial"> </span> </p>

April 22 - Brent Toderian

<p>Dean Baker of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) chastises those whom he calls the "homeownership ideologues" for promoting homeownership to lower income households.</p>

April 22 - Truthout

<p>New York's newest force of foresters, hired to plant one million trees in all five boroughs by 2017, are receiving more opposition then one might expect.</p>

April 22 - The New York Times

<p>Seattle's new light rail line is poised to usher in a new era for Martin Luther King Jr. Way. Though most are excited about the new development, the fear of gentrification has made some residents worry that they won't be around to reap the benefits.</p>

April 22 - The Seattle Times

<p>In Somerville, Massachusetts, a group of community residents -- many of them professional architects and planners -- have organized themselves to help the city address problems in their neighborhood.</p>

April 22 - The Boston Globe

<p>The Winnipeg Free Press responds to the announcement that the city's top planning post has been given to a developer.</p>

April 22 - The Winnipeg Free Press

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<p> One of the most influential pieces of contemporary urban theory I've ever read was a short monograph by Richard Norton entitled "Feral Cities", which <a href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0JIW/is_4_56/ai_110458726">appeared in the Naval War College Review</a> in 2003. Norton described feral cities thusly: </p><p> "Imagine a great metropolis covering hundreds of square miles. Once a vital component in a national economy, this sprawling urban environment is now a vast collection of blighted buildings, an immense petri dish of both ancient and new diseases, a territory where the rule of law has long been replaced by near anarchy in which the only security available is that which is attained through brute power." </p>

April 22 - Anthony Townsend

<p>After a recent audit revealed that long-time problems that have plagued the city's planning division, local leaders are taking action to remedy the situation.</p>

April 22 - Deseret News

<p>Officials forecast need to adapt development model: to retreat from some areas, build in others, and reduce reliance on cars.</p>

April 22 - The San Francisco Chronicle

<p>Urban infill developments are slated to transform the vast industrial land between Charleston and North Charleston, South Carolina, known as "the Neck" area, into live-work communities that stitch the two cities together.</p>

April 22 - Charleston Business Journal

<p>Winnipeg, Manitoba has selected a local developer to fill the city's top planning job, with some left wondering what direction the city's growth will take under the new director.</p>

April 21 - Winnepeg Free Press