The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>A suburban Salt Lake City mayor has expressed interest in adding light rail to a list of desires for his city's long-term planning process. High costs and a low estimated demand are cited by opponents.</p>

January 23 - Deseret Morning News

<p>Architects and dictators have had a long and uneasy relationship throughout history.</p>

January 23 - Signandsight.com

<p>While most New Yorkers deem traffic congestion a serious problem, even more oppose congestion pricing in Manhattan as a strategy to lessen it, according to the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute survey released January 18.</p>

January 23 - AP via New York Post

<p>Preservationists are working to save the city's historic homes, under threat from Katrina victims who are interested in building modern housing.</p>

January 23 - The Los Angeles Times

<p>Nancy Solomon reports that due to increased demand Amtrak may increase service along urban lines in its northeast corridor.</p>

January 23 - National Public Radio

<p>Despite support for the plan and the amenities it provides for Inverness, some fear that Andres Duany's planned town of Tornagrain is not needed.</p>

January 23 - The Inverness Courier

<p>Mayor Tom Menino's proposal to move Boston City Hall to the south waterfront ignores the importance of the building's location, and the recent developments in downtown.</p>

January 23 - The Hartford Courant

<p>Recovery czar Ed Blakely lays out his five-point plan for the city's comeback as residents endorsed a plan for rebuilding the city's neighborhoods.</p>

January 23 - The Times Picayune

<p>New Urbanists are pushing for big changes to the International Traffic Engineers' thoroughfare design manual to help make roads more pedestrian-friendly.</p>

January 22 - New Urban News

<p>USC's Peter Gordon squares off against UCLA's Matthew Kahn in the Wall Street Journal's ECONBLOG to debate whether London's style of congestion pricing is the right answer for U.S. traffic.</p>

January 22 - The Wall Street Journal

<p>Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez takes the city's Deputy Mayor for Transportation to task for driving a Hummer. 'It's smaller than a Yukon.'</p>

January 22 - The Los Angeles Times

<p>Was pre-Katrina New Orleans unable to support its former population, and thus now -- as a smaller city -- better-positioned economically? Or is it in danger of losing its cultural identity without that population?</p>

January 22 - The New York Times

<p>This article from <em>The Phoenix</em> looks at Boston's reputation for being a walkable city, why that reputation is fading, and who is helping to bring it back.</p>

January 22 - The Phoenix

<p>Toronto, Ontario, is on its way to meeting a goal of adding 500,000 residents by 2031. Many see the dense growth as a positive move for Canada's most populous city, but trading sprawl for compact growth is creating strain on its infrastructure.</p>

January 22 - The Toronto Star

<p>Land rights and high costs are proving to be major hurdles in Kansas City's bid to build a 27-mile light rail system.</p>

January 22 - Kansas City Business Journal

<p>Philip Langdon covers two new urban projects, Holiday neighborhood in Boulder, CO, and Beerline B in Milwaukee, WI, that achieve an intriguing mix of approaches and styles.</p>

January 22 - New Urban News

FEATURE

Airports connect us to the world, generate enormous economic benefits, and provide an important first impression of a city. It's high time the airports shed their bad rap and are planned not as nuisances, but assets.

January 22 - Ryan N. Hall

<p>The long and convoluted tale of the demise of a container port and the planned rebirth of a piece of Brooklyn waterfront.</p>

January 22 - The New York Observer

<p>There are many things to like about Boston, but this article lists of 27 things to not like about it, including inconvenient bus routes, short subway operating hours, and a lack of street signs.</p>

January 22 - The Phoenix

<p>A New York chef lays in on the policy failures, lost local economies, damaged environments, and the bland food that have resulted from the U.S. Farm Bill, which will have its every-half-decade facelift in Congress this year.</p>

January 21 - The New York Times