The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>This article from the <em>International Herald Tribune</em> looks at a new rating scale that measures the quality of life in global cities based on the function and amenities of their airports.</p>

March 5 - International Herald Tribune

<p>The city of Hamburg, Germany, is hoping to recreate its identity as a harbor city with an ambitious and expansive redevelopment plan. Many prominent architects have signed up to contribute to the project, which is set to complete in 2020.</p>

March 5 - Der Spiegel

<p>In the latest turn of events in the battle between Disneyland and a proposed housing development, Anaheim Mayor Curt Pringle has stepped in to push the company to reconsider its staunch opposition to allowing housing into its tourist resort area.</p>

March 5 - The Los Angeles Times

<p>As the deadline to file claims came to a close, the city of New Orleans was among thousands to submit a claim indicating they would sue the Army Corps of Engineers for damage caused by levee breaches. The city's claim totals more than $77 billion.</p>

March 5 - New Orleans Times-Picayune

<p>Shunning the past approach of building monumental (and expensive) new venues, plans for hosting the 2016 Olympic Summer Games in Chicago and Los Angeles both incorporate temporary and modest stadiums.</p>

March 4 - The Los Angeles Times

<p>While urban growth is heavily regulated in industrialized countries, most of the world develops without a legal planning framework.</p>

March 4 - Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

<p>Homeowners in Seattle are trying to retain use of public land along the city's shorelines, but park advocates want the land for exclusive public use.</p>

March 4 - The Seattle Post-Intelligencer

<p>The new San Francisco Federal Building, designed by architect Thom Mayne, has a soft 'green' underbelly to its hard industrial exterior.</p>

March 4 - Bloomberg

<p>Though it is designed to cushion the blow for workers laid off because of foreign competition, the Trade Act Adjustment program is widely criticized for being difficult to access and unrealistic for many adults with extremely limited incomes.</p>

March 4 - The Wall Street Journal

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<p> The planned expansion of Interstate-5 in San Diego County would finally complete the Southern California metropolis. Los Angeles and Orange Counties became wall-to-wall sprawl development decades ago, erasing all traces of their rural heritage and the scenic outdoors. Northern San Diego County, with its quaint beach towns, is tenuously holding on to the last vestiges of agricultural land and breathable open space. But these areas too are rapidly developing. It is no surprise then that I-5, the only north-south route along the coast, is increasingly traffic clogged. The county’s solution? Invest $1.4 billion to expand the freeway from 8 lanes to 12 or 14 lanes along a 26-mile stretch of the north county coast.</p>

March 3 - Diana DeRubertis

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<p><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'"><font size="2">For as often as the Gulf Coast and 9/11 debacles and their aftermaths have been analyzed, one discussion has been conspicuously missing: how starkly those events, natural and man-made, revealed the inability of planning today--however professionally designed, organized and regulated—to contend with the vagaries of circumstances and conditions out of its control.

March 3 - Roger Sherman

<p>Shanghai's market may have tanked, but its planners see an upside in Miami Beach. So do Mumbai's.</p>

March 3 - The Slatin Report

<p>The City of Richmond, California, has received a grant from the California Endowment to include a Public Health Element in its General Plan -- one of the first in the state.</p>

March 3 - The Contra Costa Times

<p>Touchless parking garages, more common in Europe, will be opening soon in New York.</p>

March 3 - The New York Times

<p>Developers, neighborhood leaders and all interested parties will be able to track project approvals at every stage of the process.</p>

March 3 - Austin American-Statesman

<p>Mayor Livingstone set forth a bold, detailed plan to reduce London's greenhouse gas emissions by 60% by 2025. However, many sectors are outside the city's scope, such as an increase aviation emissions, and a nationwide price on the carbon pollution.</p>

March 3 - The Guardian

<p>Why we should be worried about the rise of the world's new mega-cities.</p>

March 2 - The Los Angeles Times

<p>Within 20 years the baby boomer generation will need the immigrant youth, who are more successful than the public believes, reports USC planning professor Dowell Myers, in his new book, Immigrants and Boomers.</p>

March 2 - The Los Angeles Times

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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">What is this thing we do called planning? Are we really planning or just reacting? And visioning? What’s that all about? These the questions that came to mind as I was reading yesterday’s - <em><a href="http://www.planetizen.com/node/23076"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none">Ineffective Local Planning Efforts Push County To Seek Greater Control</span></a></em></font></font><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: Verdana">. </span><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">And, also, how many articles like this are published on a daily basis?? If you were to add them all up from across the country, I’m sure the number wouldn’t be insignificant. </font></p>

March 2 - David Renkert

<p>A new report demonstrates that restructured parking fees could resolve a significant portion of Manhattan's traffic congestion, without the need for London-style congestion pricing.</p>

March 2 - Streetsblog