The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>This series from <em>The Detroit Free Press</em> looks at the state of the city that is both struggling and succeeding.</p>

January 23 - The Detroit Free Press

<p>The middle eastern country of Qatar is hoping to boost its chances of securing the 2016 Olympics by building an extensive light rail system throughout its capital city of Doha.</p>

January 23 - TradeArabia

<p>Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and best-selling author David Cay Johnston talks recently on NPR's Fresh Air about government subsidies for big box stores.</p>

January 23 - NPR

<p>The city of Pasadena, California has enlisted a groups of more than 100 volunteers to walks and evaluate its streets to rate the city's walkability.</p>

January 22 - Pasadena Star-News

<p>A 2,300-unit development near a Maine lake is facing an environmental test to determine its carbon footprint. Environmentalists say the impact is too great, but developers dispute the analysis.</p>

January 22 - The Christian Science Monitor

<p>This paper shows how urban development may be considered in terms of musical categories, and associates spontaneous and informal urban actions with their analog in musical discourse: improvisation.</p>

January 22 - The Urban Reinventors Online Urban Journal

<p>While the Canadian provincial governments in British Columbia and Ontario have committed tens of billions of dollars to improving public transit, a corresponding federal investment in transit has yet to materialize.</p>

January 22 - The Globe & Mail

<p>Cleveland, which last week filed suit against 21 banks to regain revenues lost from a massive wave of foreclosures, epitomizes the extent of America's housing crisis.</p>

January 22 - The Globe & Mail

<p>The City of Venice, Italy, has just opened a new waterbus for its canals that is reserved for use by local citizens only -- part of an effort to make the tourist-heavy city more friendly to its own people.</p>

January 22 - International Herald Tribune

<p>Canals dug for oil and natural gas extraction and service may have played a significant role in the weakening of the Mississippi River Delta -- a negative effect of the oil industry's Gulf operations that worsened the impact of Hurricane Katrina.</p>

January 22 - Associated Press via Wired

<p>Controversial plans to include an elevated enclosed pedestrian bridge as part of a major development in downtown Salt Lake City will face a vote before the city's planning commission this week. The vote, however, is not expected to be the final word.</p>

January 22 - The Salt Lake Tribune

<p>America's infrastructure is struggling, but from where will the funding and political will come to fix it?</p>

January 22 - Stateline

<p>Downtown L.A. is redeveloping into a residential neighborhood. But is it baby-friendly?</p>

January 22 - L.A. Downtown News

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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial">Like many world cities, Vancouver has a growing discussion on the issue of &quot;iconic&quot; architecture, one that I&#39;ve been a part of and encouraging. This despite the fact that, like many urbanists, the word iconic actually makes me nervous. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial"> </span></p>

January 21 - Brent Toderian

<p>A coalition of 21 countries has signed an agreement that will prohibit any development within 100 yards of the Mediterranean coast -- a broad agreement that will affect more than 29,000 miles of coastline.</p>

January 21 - The Christian Science Monitor

<p>Plans for 250,000 new houses on a floodplain in Britain and broad redevelopment plans in New Orleans have many wondering why planners aren't looking to the flood expertise of the Dutch.</p>

January 21 - The Guardian

<p>New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger rallied recently in California, calling on the federal government to do more to address the country's aging infrastructure.</p>

January 21 - The New York Times

<p>In response to a request for documentation about why the EPA recently rejected greenhouse gas regulations in California, the agency has handed over limited and censored documents and citing an executive privilege in doing so.</p>

January 21 - Associated Press

<p>This article from <em>National Geographic</em> looks at the increasing strain on the water supplying the western U.S.</p>

January 21 - National Geographic

<p>In this opinion by U.S. Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters, she rejects the recommendation by a national transportation commission to increase the gas tax, instead preferring road tolls, congestion pricing, and other private sector investment.</p>

January 21 - The Wall Street Journal