The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>With plush furniture, coffee shops, rock concerts and meeting spaces, public libraries are reinventing themselves as the city's primary public place.</p>

January 10 - The Globe & Mail

<p>U.S. cities are increasingly utilizing below-grade freeway to cover with parkland. Some 20 highway-deck parks are already open, with more in the pipeline.</p>

January 10 - Governing

<p>In Europe, vehicular emissions are increasing while emissions from industry and the population growth rate decline. More people throughout the world are driving, especially in those countries where the "newly rich" enjoy their new mobility.</p>

January 10 - The New York Times

<p>In March, the Cricket World Cup will be held in nine Caribbean locations. Preparations are underway in Kingston, Jamaica, and though the pitches are almost ready for the world's best bowlers and batsmen, much of the city itself is in shambles.</p>

January 10 - Jamaica Gleaner

<p>In response to public demand, The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority has adopted a resolution designating light rail as the transit of choice for the city's expansive Beltline park and transit project.</p>

January 10 - DeKalb News

<p>Six years ago Andres Duany helped craft a new 20 year masterplan for the City of Sarasota, Florida, which prides itself on being a city with a small town feel. This week he returns to gauge the city's progress.</p>

January 10 - Bradenton Herald

<p>The restored Cheonggyecheon river, which once was reduced to a sewer capped by a six-lane highway, now serves as a focal point for urban recreation in the South Korean capital.</p>

January 10 - Mail & Guardian Online

<p>Mayor Rocky Anderson has used his office to transform the way the city does business, winning him support even when his policies run against the political mainstream.</p>

January 10 - AlterNet

<p>Advocates for the preservation of historic homes in Houston's 6th ward, east of downtown, have posted video testimonials on the Web to help gain support for their cause.</p>

January 10 - The Houston Chronicle

<p>While programs for moderate-income first-time homebuyers are popular with residents, support for low-income rental housing remains low.</p>

January 9 - The Tennessean

<p>Megapolitans are regions that combine at least two, and often several, metropolitan areas. Researchers Robert E. Lang and Arthur C. Nelson developed the megapolitan concept in part to depict where the next 100 million Americans will live.</p>

January 9 - Planning magazine, American Planning Association

<p>In the first large scale residential building to incorporate universal design principles, integration of disabled residents and mixed income households are keys to success.</p>

January 9 - The New York Times

<p>The New York Times offers an online tour of the Fulton Street transit hub, which planners hope will straighten out the tangle of platforms and mezzanines below Lower Manhattan.</p>

January 9 - The New York Times

<p>Argentina's capital has placed a moratorium on new construction due to failing infrastructure and concerns over the pace of neighborhood change.</p>

January 9 - The Miami Herald

<p>In his new job as the executive director for recovery management in New Orleans, Ed Blakely brings decades of experience and a few potentially controversial ideas.</p>

January 9 - The Times Picayune

<p>A local architect and developer is making plans to provide affordable homes using recycled steel shipping containers.</p>

January 9 - In Business Las Vegas

<p>Anger over parking difficulties in the city has spawned attacks between motorists and enforcement officers, and even led to the death of one resident.</p>

January 9 - The New York Times

<p>Community development corporations were created about a generation ago to build housing in impoverished neighborhoods of New York City where private developers had given up. Now that these areas are flourishing, these CDCs face an uncertain future.</p>

January 9 - The New York Times

<p>Naples, Florida is a "poster child" for the speculative frenzy that helped drive up housing costs in the Sunshine State and elsewhere. New research indicates a higher level of speculative buying in the U.S. than previously thought.</p>

January 9 - The Wall Street Journal

<p>Governor-elect Martin O'Malley wants to redirect the state down the path of smart growth charted by former Governor Parris Glendening.</p>

January 8 - The Baltimore Sun