The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>Responding to recent criticism, Robert B. Olshansky and Lewis D. Hopkins, professors of urban and regional planning at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, argue that the United New Orleans Plan gets a lot more things right than wrong.</p>

March 12 - New Orleans Times-Picayune

<p>Ocean power is increasingly becoming a viable source of renewable energy.</p>

March 12 - The Los Angeles Times

<p>Pools of capital ebb and flow, but the tide may be starting to come in for smart growth and New Urbanist investment funds.</p>

March 12 - New Urban News

<p>Las Vegas, the driest metro region in the U.S., needs water as it grows rapidly. Where is it going to come from?</p>

March 12 - The Los Angeles Times

<p>Though still struggling to survive as modern day retail hubs, the shopping arcades of Paris are attracting a resurgence of interest, especially from tourists.</p>

March 12 - The New York Times

<p>A detailed 3D model of Berlin has been added to the program Google Earth, enabling visitors to "walk" through the virtual city and many of its historic sites and buildings. The city and Google expect further integration, with virtual stores and more.</p>

March 12 - Der Spiegel

<p>Federal gas taxes must be raised to address a highway funding deficit of $11 billion, according to a new report by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials.</p>

March 12 - Stateline

<p>To help local governments enforce a new statewide building code, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is contributing $14 million to the state of Louisiana. State and federal officials expect the new stringent code to reduce insurance costs.</p>

March 12 - The Advocate

<p>In Portland, Oregon, results of a survey about the mayor's long-term planning vision reveal that many in the city feel development is pricing out the poor, and that policies cater more to encouraging economic development than to resident's interests.</p>

March 12 - The Portland Tribune

<p>Fernando Costa, the director of planning for Fort Worth, Texas, has won praise from residents with his common sense and consensus building approach to planning in this fast growing region.</p>

March 11 - Forth Worth Weekly

The recently launched Open Architecture Network uses Web 2.0 technology to get designers to share their ideas to benefit the neediest members of global society.

March 11 - Wired News

<p>Researcher say air pollution from Asia is changing Pacific weather patterns and ending up over West Coast cities.</p>

March 11 - The Los Angeles Times

<p>County officials are trying to find philanthropists to help buy land rights to a historic Pennsylvania farm, one that could be offered up to builders if preservationists do not buy the land by August 2.</p>

March 11 - The Philadelphia Inquirer

<p>An increasing number of Americans are renting self-storage units to stash away their ever-growing belongings.</p>

March 11 - The New York Times

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<p><img src="/files/u10403/T3logo.gif" alt="" width="369" height="72" align="top" /></p><p>The family and I took a recreational ride on the newest light rail line in San Francisco today, the Muni train known as the T. It runs along the city&#39;s east-west spine, Market St., and then cuts south along the water of the bay, then inland and way, way south down Third Street—from the city&#39;s hottest under-construction neighborhood through the worst ghetto.</p><p>As such, it&#39;s an interesting new ride in San Francisco. Some photos and observations after the jump.</p>

March 10 - Anonymous

<p>A plant company owner in San Diego, California, is hoping his new vegetated roof will help the concept catch on with others in the region.</p>

March 10 - The San Diego Union-Tribune

<p>With a federal takeover of the city's housing authority underway, the fallout from the investigation into the agency's misdealings is expected to call for dramatic changes in government policy towards low-income housing.</p>

March 10 - The Christian Science Monitor

<p>British planners have green-lighted a dizzying array of new high-rise projects, though some question the benefits of building tall.</p>

March 10 - BBC News

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<p>Greetings from Victoria, British Columbia!</p>

March 10 - Todd Litman

<p>Plans for the construction of several mega-highway and rail corridors across Texas are facing growing opposition.</p>

March 10 - Fort Worth Weekly