The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>A strike in the city of Vancouver that has left residents without garbage collection for nearly three months has caused people to get creative -- and a little sneaky -- in how they get rid of their trash.</p>

October 15 - The Vancouver Sun

<p>Portland, Oregon, looks to follow the lead of Paris in instituting a bike rental system throughout the city. Bids are requested for a pilot fleet of 500 bikes.</p>

October 15 - The Portland Tribune

<p>Israel is planning to construct a so-called "Palestinian Highway", which critics believe will be used to fragment Palestinian territory.</p>

October 15 - The Globe & Mail

<p>The mortgage crisis is contributing to a dramatic increase in homeless families.</p>

October 15 - Common Dreams

<p>A planned 19-story residential building on Manhattan's west side features New York City's first personal "sky garages." A video animation shows how they work.</p>

October 15 - Streetsblog

<p>With the housing market faltering, developers are eyeing an emerging and lucrative market: luxurious garages for expensive cars.</p>

October 14 - The Los Angeles Times

<p>A San Francisco lawyer and housing activist questions the paper's focus on problematic street behavior and on law enforcement as the only way to deal with the city's homeless population.</p>

October 14 - BeyondChron

<p>The controversial Three Gorges Dam project has displaced millions of people, and is about to displace millions more; but some wonder if official explanations about protecting sensitive areas and accelerating urbanization are accurate.</p>

October 14 - InterPress Service

<p>A Los Angeles artist has recently completed a project documenting each of the city's street named after saints, and has crafted murals of each one to show how the life of the randomly-named streets mirrors the lives and work of their namesakes.</p>

October 14 - The Los Angeles Times

<p>This report from <em>NPR</em> looks at the results of a report on the commuting habits and trends of American drivers.</p>

October 14 - NPR

BLOG POST

<p> There are lots of Wi-Fi buses popping up in Northern California. The <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/10/technology/10google.html">Google shuttle</a> from San Francisco to the Valley has been running for a while and I think Yahoo! has a similar service, but I saw this <a href="http://www.actransit.org/news/articledetail.wu?articleid=ae8a49cd">Wi-Fi enabled AC Transit bus</a> (that's Alameda County folks) crossing the Dumbarton Bridge last week. Apparently, the service is being subsidized by a grant from the Alameda County Congestion Management Agency. </p>

October 13 - Anthony Townsend

<p>This graph from <em>Good</em> shows the acreage of some of the world's biggest retailers, including McDonald's, 7-11, and Wal-Mart.</p>

October 13 - Good

<p>A group opposed to plans to create a congestion pricing system in New York have released a report outlining measures that could be taken to achieve the same level of traffic reduction without a congestion charge.</p>

October 13 - The New York Times

<p>Vancouver Mayor Sam Sullivan's highly-touted push for "EcoDensity" in the city has fallen apart lately, according to columnist Trevor Boddy.</p>

October 13 - The Globe & Mail

<p>Environmentalists and concerned residents are creating roadblocks in a plan by developer Donal Trump to build a $2 billion golf resort in Scotland.</p>

October 13 - Associated Press via MSNBC

<p>States across the country -- including Georgia, Tennessee, and California -- are pushing plans to divert truck traffic from their increasingly crowded highways.</p>

October 13 - USA Today

<p>This video from <em>Do The Green Thing</em> tells the tale of Gusty and Ford -- a street-sign love story that only came to be because of a fortuitous decision one day to walk instead of drive.</p>

October 12 - Do The Green Thing

<p>The Building website invites readers to send in pictures of construction safety blunders.</p>

October 12 - Building

<p>Nick Turse reports on the recent "Joint Urban Operations" conference, where participants discussed the highly advanced military technologies being contemplated for use in the slums of the global south.</p>

October 12 - Tom Dispatch

<p>A derelict train depot in London has been given a 21st-century makeover in preparation for its opening as the terminal for high-speed trains traveling in between the English capital and other European cities such as Paris and Brussels.</p>

October 12 - International Herald Tribune