The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>The controversial Three Gorges Dam project has displaced millions of people, and is about to displace millions more; but some wonder if official explanations about protecting sensitive areas and accelerating urbanization are accurate.</p>

October 14 - InterPress Service

<p>A Los Angeles artist has recently completed a project documenting each of the city's street named after saints, and has crafted murals of each one to show how the life of the randomly-named streets mirrors the lives and work of their namesakes.</p>

October 14 - The Los Angeles Times

<p>This report from <em>NPR</em> looks at the results of a report on the commuting habits and trends of American drivers.</p>

October 14 - NPR

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<p> There are lots of Wi-Fi buses popping up in Northern California. The <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/10/technology/10google.html">Google shuttle</a> from San Francisco to the Valley has been running for a while and I think Yahoo! has a similar service, but I saw this <a href="http://www.actransit.org/news/articledetail.wu?articleid=ae8a49cd">Wi-Fi enabled AC Transit bus</a> (that's Alameda County folks) crossing the Dumbarton Bridge last week. Apparently, the service is being subsidized by a grant from the Alameda County Congestion Management Agency. </p>

October 13 - Anthony Townsend

<p>This graph from <em>Good</em> shows the acreage of some of the world's biggest retailers, including McDonald's, 7-11, and Wal-Mart.</p>

October 13 - Good

<p>A group opposed to plans to create a congestion pricing system in New York have released a report outlining measures that could be taken to achieve the same level of traffic reduction without a congestion charge.</p>

October 13 - The New York Times

<p>Vancouver Mayor Sam Sullivan's highly-touted push for "EcoDensity" in the city has fallen apart lately, according to columnist Trevor Boddy.</p>

October 13 - The Globe & Mail

<p>Environmentalists and concerned residents are creating roadblocks in a plan by developer Donal Trump to build a $2 billion golf resort in Scotland.</p>

October 13 - Associated Press via MSNBC

<p>States across the country -- including Georgia, Tennessee, and California -- are pushing plans to divert truck traffic from their increasingly crowded highways.</p>

October 13 - USA Today

<p>This video from <em>Do The Green Thing</em> tells the tale of Gusty and Ford -- a street-sign love story that only came to be because of a fortuitous decision one day to walk instead of drive.</p>

October 12 - Do The Green Thing

<p>The Building website invites readers to send in pictures of construction safety blunders.</p>

October 12 - Building

<p>Nick Turse reports on the recent "Joint Urban Operations" conference, where participants discussed the highly advanced military technologies being contemplated for use in the slums of the global south.</p>

October 12 - Tom Dispatch

<p>A derelict train depot in London has been given a 21st-century makeover in preparation for its opening as the terminal for high-speed trains traveling in between the English capital and other European cities such as Paris and Brussels.</p>

October 12 - International Herald Tribune

<p>A recent survey show that tap water outperforms bottled water, which bodes well for cities and citizens concerned about the environmental impacts of the billion dollar bottled water industry.</p>

October 12 - The Miami Herald

<p>Cities across the country are passing measures to limit the size of new homes -- an attack on the much-derided "McMansionization" of America. Restrictions range from outright bans to innovative cap-and-trade schemes.</p>

October 12 - Architectural Record

<p>City officials in Los Angeles have come to a settlement with homeless advocates that will allow anyone to sleep on the sidewalk until the city builds 1,250 affordable housing units, which could take up to five years.</p>

October 12 - The Los Angeles Times

As design proposals come in for the Hudson Yards development site in Manhattan, Peter Slatin writes that this project more than any other has the potential to bolster the economic power of New York City in a huge way.

October 12 - The Slatin Report

<p>In this short video, <em>Wired</em>'s Adam Rogers talks with Cameron Sinclair of the Open Architecture Network.</p>

October 12 - Wired Science

<p>The unexpectedly rapid melting of glacier ice in Greenland has scientists worried that it may be only years -- not centuries -- before rising sea levels begin to affect coastal cities like New York.</p>

October 12 - AlterNet

<p>The development of more than 200 units of affordable housing intended for teachers and public school officials has been announced in the South Bronx.</p>

October 11 - New York Daily News