The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>West Palm Beach, Florida, is entertaining several ideas to embolden its skyline. One proposal suggests a 1,500 foot tower, which would be the tallest in the United States.</p>

June 14 - The Miami Herald

<p>A simple sidewalk widening project in Williamsburg, Brooklyn marks a radical shift in land use policy for New York City.</p>

June 14 - Streetsblog

<p>Efforts are underway to 'green' ferries and other commercial ships -- which represent a major but largely ignored source of air pollution.</p>

June 14 - The Christian Science Monitor

<p>Parents who grew up in the city but raised their children in the suburbs wonder if they made the right choice.</p>

June 14 - The Charlotte Observer

<p>Plans for a new high school next to a busy freeway interchange in New Haven, Connecticut, call for sealed windows and air filtration systems, but community and environmental groups are calling the entire proposal unconscionable.</p>

June 14 - New Haven Independent

<p>New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson promised to redirect funding from roads to mass transit if he's elected President.</p>

June 14 - San Diego Union Tribune

<p>A new report from the Brookings Institution shows that suburbs are aging faster than cities -- and may signal a desire by seniors to stay put in their suburban communities.</p>

June 14 - The New York Times

<p>The vast majority of the world's e-waste is processed in China, in towns like Guiyu.</p>

June 14 - Reuters

<p>With a number of large-scale condo and apartment developments planned for downtown Boise, seven developers are transforming the formerly vacant downtown into a vibrant neighborhood.</p>

June 13 - The Idaho Statesman

<p>In Oregon, the controversial land use law Measure 37 is on its way back to the ballot this November, as lawmakers look to limit the development rights granted by the measure in 2004.</p>

June 13 - The Oregonian

<p>Preservationists are calling for buffer zones around the city's heritage sites, which could upset Mayor Ken Livingstone's plans to spur urban regeneration with new high-rise buildings.</p>

June 13 - BusinessWeek

<p>Not all buildings can be great, but good design shouldn't be an afterthought either, argues architecture critic John King.</p>

June 13 - The San Francisco Chronicle

<p>As part of a new set of guiding principles that call on city planners to 'demand a walkable city', Los Angeles may adopt new standards requiring developers to widen sidewalks, not streets.</p>

June 13 - LA Downtown News

<p>While more states are approving commercial casinos in hopes of creating jobs and increasing tax revenues, economists are increasing skeptical of the benefits of legalized gambling.</p>

June 13 - The Wall Street Journal

<p>In this special report, the WSJ examines the growing popularity of rail-based TODs, examining their effect on land values as well as the challenges they may face in obtaining approval.</p>

June 13 - The Wall Street Journal

<p>Cities such as London, Hong Kong and Mumbai now prohibit feeding of pigeons -- but can it help to control the burgeoning urban population of the birds?</p>

June 13 - Deccan Herald

<p>San Francisco's largest transit agency is reviled by many residents because of its service delays and poor management.</p>

June 13 - The San Francisco Chronicle

<p>Google's new ground-level imaging feature, "Street View", is not just perfect "blog fodder": it's raising serious questions about the nature of privacy and public spaces.</p>

June 13 - The New York Times

<p>The troubling ratio of mortgage debt to housing value is going to pose a problem for millions of baby boomers, who are set to retire with almost no equity, according to Dean Baker of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C.</p>

June 12 - Center for Economic and Policy Research

<p>With pedestrian-friendly urban design increasingly popular, many suburban communities are building urban village-type developments usually designed around transit stations -- except they don't have transit.</p>

June 12 - USA Today