The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>A shift in the market has once again transformed the vision for developing Boston's One Kenmore, a Massachussetts Turnpike air rights development project in the heart of the city's Kenmore Square/Fenway Park neighborhood.</p>

January 18 - The Boston Globe

<p>Despite recent findings by consultants that a plan to extend the Washington D.C. metro rail system to Dulles International Airport would qualify for full funding, federal officials are hesitant to approve it, fearing another Big Dig.</p>

January 18 - The Washington Post

<p>The government of Norway has announced plans to offset all of its carbon emissions by 2030, a goal it had previously set for 2050.</p>

January 18 - Reuters via Environmental News Network

<p>Having been particularly targeted by subprime mortgage lenders, neighborhoods with a majority of African American households are bearing the brunt of the housing crisis.</p>

January 18 - The Nation

<p>Despite its relatively low car ownership rates, Britain has one of the worst public transit systems and the most congested roads among industrialized nations, according to a a new report.</p>

January 18 - BBC

<p>Former California Governor Jerry Brown, now the state's attorney general, is vowing to sue cities and counties that do not take climate change into consideration during general plan updates.</p>

January 18 - California Planning & Development Report

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<p>This evening my wife, Beth Conover, will appear on a televised panel discussion on &quot;Immigration and Sustainability&quot; aired on Rocky Mountain PBS&#39;s <a href="http://www.rmpbs.org/content/index.cfm/show/199305" title="Rocky Mountain PBS Colorado State of Mind">Colorado State of Mind</a>, hosted by Greg Dobbs. The panel includes former Gov. Dick Lamm, former Post columnist Diane Carman, and State Rep. Michael Garcia (D-Aurora). An mp3 of the program is already available at the following <a href="http://www.rmpbs.org/resources/files/programs/local_productions/csom/csom603.mp3" title="MP3 of 7-18-07 Colorado State of Mind PBS Show">link</a>. </p>

January 17 - Ken Snyder

<p>With homelessness rates doubling after hurricane Katrina, activists in New Orleans have filed lawsuits and faced pepper spray and tasers in their fight to save public housing units from being demolished.</p>

January 17 - In These Times

<p>The long-awaited report by the National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission has finally been released and it's sure to create a stir as it calls for annual increases in the gas tax of 5 to 8 cents for 5 years, and then some.</p>

January 17 - The Kansas City Star

<p>Ohio never recovered from the 2001 recession, and today 16 percent of families live below the poverty line. The state continues to lose high-paying factory jobs, and adult children and moving back in with their parents to make ends meet.</p>

January 17 - The New York Times

<p>Walking and biking in becoming increasingly dangerous in many Chinese cities. This article looks at what some cities are doing to discourage these traditional forms of transport, and what they can do to make the streets safer.</p>

January 17 - UC Berkeley Traffic Safety Center Newsletter

<p>Design teams presented their visions for the future of Washington D.C. recently. Their outlook was overwhelmingly dire.</p>

January 17 - The Washington Post

<p>Desalination plants are being seen as the solution to declines in global freshwater supplies. But as Scott Thill reports, the plants may be an environmental disaster in the making.</p>

January 17 - AlterNet

<p>British Columbia's Premier Gordon Campbell has announced $14 billion worth of public transit investment.</p>

January 17 - The Globe and Mail

<p>A BBC TV special examines the heated interaction between pedestrians, cyclists, and motorists jockeying for scarce road space in Britain.</p>

January 17 - Streetsblog

<p>This article form <em>City Journal</em> looks at the rapidly rising city of Abu Dhabi and its focus on human development.</p>

January 17 - City Journal

<p>In its new report released to Congress, the National Surface Transportation and Revenue Study Commission advocates hundreds of billions in annual infrastructure expenditures, and a significant hike in the gas tax.</p>

January 17 - AOL News

<p>Cyclists are teaming up in Delhi, forming a club to promote the bike as a better transportation alternative than the cars that are increasingly flooding the city's streets.</p>

January 17 - BBC

<p>This op-ed looks at Naples, Italy, where protests over a garbage dump have halted collections and left rubbish piling in the city's streets. Though unpleasant,writes the author, the situation should not be surprising.</p>

January 16 - The New York Times

<p>Global warming is exacerbating the threat of flooding in low-lying areas such as Holland and California's Sacramento Delta. Politicians in California are looking to Holland for examples of how to prevent flooding from happening.</p>

January 16 - NPR