The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>A proposal for a water pipeline to bring water to distant developments in Idaho highlights the history of water being diverted farther and farther from its source to feed growth.</p>

July 17 - The Idaho Statesman

<p>The water demand from the fast-growing suburbs outside Savannah have started to threaten local aquifers. Though water restrictions are in place and prices are increasing, the growth continues.</p>

July 17 - The New York Times

<p>After a growing number of complaints against its presence in one of China's most significant historic and cultural sites, the chain decides to close its doors.</p>

July 17 - Business Week

<p>Designers, developers, and homeowners are finding benefits to "universal design" -- a principle that seeks to make homes and buildings accessible to people of all physical abilities.</p>

July 17 - The Chicago Tribune

<p>A planner and Army Reservist from Florida talks about his time spent working on planning issues in Iraq, and relates it to his experiences as a city planner in the U.S.</p>

July 17 - The Ledger

<p>Deciding where bus routes should go isn't an easy job.</p>

July 16 - San Antonio Express-News

<p>Rail supporters in New Hampshire are hopeful that the creation of a new rail authority will help bring long-sought commuter rail to the state.</p>

July 16 - The Boston Globe

<p>Residents of the Dominican capital are outraged by the government's move to cut down mature trees in the city's colonial areas.</p>

July 16 - The Los Angeles Times

<p>Two years after the Kelo decision, a new House Bill, the Private Property Rights Protection Act of 2007, seeks to overturn the controversial law permitting the seizure of private property for the benefit of private corporations.</p>

July 16 - The San Francisco Chronicle

FEATURE

The second edition of this seminal historical planning study of Washington, D.C. offers readers an in-depth look at the city's birth and creation.

July 16 - Matthew B. Gilmore

<p>Harris Steinberg, director of PennPraxis of the School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania, offers 10 steps for good urban planning.</p>

July 16 - The Philadelphia Inquirer

<p>The credit for Pittsburgh's recent honor of 'most livable city' goes not to big marketing or development initiatives, but the sum of a lot of small things that make the city and region a good place to live.</p>

July 16 - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

<p>Does Houston's unzoned, free-market approach or Portland's more comprehensively-planned approach build more density? A comparison looks at what's happening in the more planned, high-growth, Sunbelt cities.</p>

July 16 - Houston Strategies

<p>The marketing departments of many large companies that have setup stores in the virtual world, Second Life, are finding that it's hard to compete with places developed by residents.</p>

July 16 - The Los Angeles Times

<p>Scotland's shortage of affordable housing is causing many to rethink planning and policy regulations.</p>

July 16 - Scotsman Online

<p>When residents of Denver's Curtis Park neighborhood learned of a plan to build an apartment complex on a small lot, they formed the Curtis Park Investors Group (CPIG) to purchase the land. Then they built something else.</p>

July 16 - Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments

<p>Government will draft a policy to address deforestation, melting glaciers, and energy-efficient economic growth but officials did not mention cutting greenhouse gas emissions.</p>

July 15 - BBC News

<p>A "graphic look" at the pro-parking referendum sponsored by Gap founder Don Fisher.</p>

July 15 - SF Weekly

<p>Green spaces and parks are becoming increasingly important as more and more people inhabit urban areas.</p>

July 15 - The Toronto Star

<p>In the coming age of "superdensity", planners and architects are going to have to rethink the way they plan new developments, according to a recent study.</p>

July 15 - Building