The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>Downtown Los Angeles has long stood in for other cities in Hollywood movies. But the area's new burgeoning residential population is clashing with movie makers over filming.</p>

June 23 - Variety

<p>Citing the need for larger battle spaces for military exercises, the U.S. Army has announced plans to acquire up to 5 million acres to expand its bases.</p>

June 23 - USA Today

<p>Successful recording artists Harry Connick Jr. and Branford Marsalis teamed up with Habitat for Humanity to develop a neighborhood specifically for the city's musicians.</p>

June 23 - Architecture Record

<p>After pursuing a single-player, single-project strategy for decades, Detroit seems to have found a winning recipe for redevelopment with its new RiverWalk, which stressed regional cooperation from various public, private and non-profit organizations.</p>

June 23 - The Detroit Free Press

<p>A single parking space in a small beachside community in England has been put on sale for nearly $50,000, twice the town's average yearly salary. But some say the price is not unreasonable.</p>

June 22 - BBC

<p>Author Robert Bruegmann and activist Gloria Ohland continue their week-long debate on planning issues. Today's topic is mass transit and the automobile.</p>

June 22 - The Los Angeles Times

<p>Once a month, a Minnesota drug store transforms itself into a neighborhood town hall meeting place where Democratic candidates vying for nearly any Minnesota office come to discuss and debate issues with the people they look to represent.</p>

June 22 - NPR

<p>The Oregon Legislature has passed a bill that will increase penalties to drivers who carelessly injure or kill pedestrians, cyclists, and other "vulnerable" road users. Convicted offenders could face a one-year license suspension.</p>

June 22 - The Oregonian

<p>Vacation home owners are getting involved in local issues in their second communities.</p>

June 22 - The New York Times

<p>A recent report from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has revealed that despite billions of dollars in improvements, many areas of New Orleans still face a significant threat of flooding.</p>

June 22 - The New York Times

<p>'Vertical farming' -- the idea of growing crops and livestock in high-rise buildings -- could be a solution to the high environmental costs of transporting food from distant farms to dense urban areas.</p>

June 22 - BBC

<p>With nearly $17 billion dollars available for reconstruction, New Orleans officials are calling upon south Florida's construction firms to help handle the demand.</p>

June 22 - The Miami Herald

<p>Once-blighted areas of downtown Louisville, Kentucky, have seen huge increases in development and property values recently -- a trend many attribute to public initiatives that encourage private investors. But other factors are also causing the boom.</p>

June 22 - The Courier-Journal

<p>While some decry streetcars as expensive and inefficient, evidence is building in cities across the U.S. that the systems can serve as powerful boons to economic development.</p>

June 22 - The Wall Street Journal

<p>A majority of New Yorkers say they would support the proposed congestion pricing plan for the city if it guaranteed that transit fares and bridge tolls would not increase.</p>

June 22 - Bloomberg

<p>Author Robert Bruegmann and activist Gloria Ohland debate Smart Growth.</p>

June 21 - The Los Angeles Times

<p>A special Forbes series on the Future of Cities includes estimations about the types of communities and major cities may face extinction by 2100.</p>

June 21 - Forbes

<p>After a plan to add bike lanes falls behind schedule, cycling activists paint their own bike lanes.</p>

June 21 - Abhijeet Chavan

<p>Moscow is the world's most expensive city, at 35% more expensive than living in new York. Asuncion in Paraguay is the least expensive city for the fifth year running.</p>

June 21 - CNN Money

<p>The car of the future may not come from Detroit but from NASA, MIT's Media Lab or Silicon Valley.</p>

June 21 - Wired