The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>If you want to get a sustainable building or community built, you have to know your audience. Architect and urban planner Andres Duany offers a field-guide of target groups.</p>

February 5 - New Urban News

<p>The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has blocked an Army Corps of Engineers pumping project that would have drained and damaged up to 200,000 acres of Mississippi wetlands -- its first block of a Corps project in nearly 20 years.</p>

February 5 - Time

<p>Mortgage lenders are increasingly imposing new loaning restrictions on risky areas encompassed by entire ZIP codes and county lines, creating what some are calling the "new redlining".</p>

February 5 - The Washington Post

<p>The United Arab Emirates of Dubai and Abu Dhabi are generating a lot of speculation and interest as they develop into two major cities, but Abu Dhabi's focus on infrastructure sets it apart -- and ahead -- of its neighboring emirate.</p>

February 5 - The Chicago Tribune

<p>This editorial argues that one-way streets kill downtowns, and they need to be converted to two-ways to help save downtown areas across the country.</p>

February 5 - The Courier-Journal

<p>Increasing bicycle use in Seattle may depend on how well the city can address the danger of the "right hook" -- right turns at intersections that cause many of the city's bicycle accidents and fatalities.</p>

February 5 - The Seattle Times

<p>In Cairo, the problem of street children was once ignored, but is now a growing concern in the public consciousness. Numerous services and aid agencies have developed in recent years to help the city's impoverished children.</p>

February 5 - The Christian Science Monitor

<p>Robert Steuteville comments about the long-standing links between New Urbanism, good placemaking, and the environment.</p>

February 5 - New Urban News

<p>A new greenbelt has been proposed for Reno, Nevada, as a way to encourage people to visit the city's downtown -- and area typically avoided due to its "rough-looking" character.</p>

February 4 - Reno Gazette-Journal

<p>The redevelopment of the original center of Denver has brought a boom of new residents to the formerly avoided downtown area.</p>

February 4 - Arch News Now

<p>As part of an effort to reduce the state's budget expenses, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has proposed a plan that would close 48 state parks.</p>

February 4 - The Los Angeles Times

<p>Heavily armed police officers will now be joining the ranks of daily commuters in New York's Subway system as part of a new counter-terrorism effort funded by federal transportation grants.</p>

February 4 - The New York Times

<p>Levittown, Long Island has undertaken a green makeover, complete with individualized energy audits that enable improvements to reduce each home's carbon footprint by 20%. But greening the houses doesn't make for a green neighborhood.</p>

February 4 - Time

<p>A downtown renewal effort in Mississauga, Ontario, looks to update its street grid by following the lead of other major world cities.</p>

February 4 - The Toronto Star

<p>A California man reduced his waste to zero, so he canceled his garbage collection. But garbage collection is required in his city, so the local government is suing.</p>

February 4 - The Examiner

<p>Orion magazine looks at the lifestyle of nomadic utopian cyclists, who are cranking up for a post-petroleum future.</p>

February 4 - Orion

<p>The settlement comes after a group sued to have $1.2 billion restored to the transit fund after the state shifted funds to balance the budget, paying for transportation-related programs that normally would have been paid from the general fund.</p>

February 4 - The Sacramento Bee

<p>Los Angeles needs to change its carpool lanes to high-occupancy toll lanes, according to this editorial.</p>

February 4 - The Daily News

<p>A new regional planning idea is looking to reduce energy use and greenhouse emissions.</p>

February 3 - New Urban News

<p>Amid the many negative impacts from the fallout of the subprime crisis is an emerging and disturbing trend: foreclosed homeowners are trashing their properties on their way out the door.</p>

February 3 - AlterNet