The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>A barber shop owner in Clarksville, Tennessee shot and killed himself in front of the City Council after members voted against his request to rezone his home as commercial property.</p>

October 5 - CNN

<p>The good news is that L.A., the nation's most polluted city, will enjoy its cleanest year since records were first established 30 years ago. The bad news is that L.A. is still the country's ozone capital.</p>

October 5 - Los Angeles Daily News

<p>The housing bubble helped the city spur redevelopment of its central core. With the downturn, officials wonder if Baltimore can hold onto the progress it made towards revitalization.</p>

October 5 - The New York Times

<p>As one of the fastest growing states in the nation, Idaho should begin to think hard about what that growth means to the environment, writes Rachel Winer.</p>

October 5 - The Idaho Statesman

<p>A recent report calling for less emphasis to be placed on cars than on other forms of transport has sparked a lively debate in Toronto.</p>

October 5 - The Toronto Star

<p>A commuter rail project in Sante Fe is stressing New Mexico's state transportation budget, causing officials to announce delays on many road and highway projects. But many are upset that the rail plans will move ahead unhindered.</p>

October 5 - The Albuquerque Tribune

<p>New York city has unveiled a pilot program that helps bus riders know when their bus is coming by employing GPS tracking devices and digital signs at some Manhattan bus stops.</p>

October 5 - The New York Times

<p>This article from <em>The Idaho Observer</em> discusses the negative health impacts of radiation for cell phone towers -- negative impacts also associated with the municipal Wi-Fi networks proposed or already built in cities across the country.</p>

October 5 - The Idaho Observer

<p>In an interview with French architect Françoise-Hélène Jourda, the newspaper <em>Le Monde</em> asks about sustainable development and the future of architecture.</p>

October 4 - Truthout

The results of a competitive RFP process to redevelop Georgia's historic Jekyll Island has been deemed unfair by the Jekyll Island Revitalization Group. A formal challenge to the State's decision has been issued and a lawsuit may follow.

October 4 - Daily Report

<p>San Francisco is considering a plan to create a bike-sharing program, similar to the successful program recently instituted in Paris.</p>

October 4 - The San Francisco Chronicle

<p>An ever-decreasing water supply threatens growth in South Florida's final development frontier.</p>

October 4 - South Florida Sun-Sentinel

<p>Entrepreneur.com's list of the 10 types of businesses most likely to be extinct in 10 years suggest a very different kind of city.</p>

October 4 - Entrepreneur.com

<p>This article from the <em>BBC</em> looks at what life is like on the other side of the fences in Guantanamo City, Cuba.</p>

October 4 - BBC

<p>City officials in Texas Border towns are blocking federal officials from coming into their towns to build walls along the U.S.-Mexico border.</p>

October 4 - The Houston Chronicle

<p>The state of Missouri's fast-track plan to fund, repair, and maintain its bridges is being called a model for the rest of the nation.</p>

October 4 - Stateline

<p>This article from <em>Environmental Building News</em> looks at the energy required to get workers from home to work -- often a use of energy that far surpasses that of the workplace itself.</p>

October 4 - Environmental Building News

<p>The Army Corps of Engineers has plans to buyout more than half of the land in the flood-damaged Gulf Coast city of Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. But residents who have already started to rebuild after Hurricane Katrina are fighting the plan.</p>

October 4 - The Los Angeles Times

<p>This slideshow from <em>The New Yorker</em> features historic maps and computer-recreations to show how Manhattan may have looked before the arrival of Europeans.</p>

October 3 - The New Yorker

<p>Census 2010 is on the way, and a new report is warning that the high concentration of illegal immigrants in the South and West will skew counts and unfairly reapportion more congressional seats to states with more undocumented people.</p>

October 3 - The Hartford Courant