The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>A new report concludes that economic incentives provided by the State of Michigan to foster job growth hurt cities by creating jobs in outlying areas.</p>

December 7 - Lansing Bureau

<p>Oakland's new progressive mayor and the Oakland Apollo Alliance are working to turn that city's fortunes around through "green collar" jobs and "green enterprise zones".</p>

December 7 - Yes! Magazine

FEATURE

A resident of a touted New Urbanist development in San Diego, California, comments on its failure as a walkable community.

December 7 - Diana DeRubertis

<p>Blaming an increasing degree of risk due to climate change, insurance companies are ending the practice of providing flood insurance in many coastal areas, triggering a potentially enormous effect on housing and land use patterns.</p>

December 7 - The Washington Post

<p>Daniel J. Curtin Jr., a former Walnut Creek city attorney who was known as the dean of California land use law, died this week at 73.</p>

December 7 - East Bay Business Times

<p>Some of the former employees who used to work in government offices in a Brooklyn landmark are now coming home to one of the condominiums in the newly converted building.</p>

December 7 - Christian Madera

<p>Want a house with urban feel without the urban strife? Developers are building new loft projects outside of big-city downtowns that cater to people who want loft living but prefer a more suburban life.</p>

December 6 - St. Louis Post-Dispatch

<p>A new film centers on the efforts of one determined inner-city resident to confront the architect who designed the low-income housing project she lives in with her family.</p>

December 6 - The Village Voice

<p>A comment on how public spaces are often overrun with political and ideological actions, reducing the equity of the daily user leading to confrontations and chaos in India.</p>

December 6 - NDTV.com

<p>While Rustbelt cities cope with job losses at ailing U.S. auto makers, the south is benefiting from Asian auto makers' success.</p>

December 6 - The New York Times

<p>A report from the Transportation Research Board shows that Hispanic immigrants are largely responsible for an up-tick in carpooling in Atlanta, Georgia.</p>

December 6 - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

<p>With gas prices falling and the amount of federal tax credits dwindling, sales of hybrid cars have hit a downward slide.</p>

December 6 - The San Francisco Chronicle

<p>Policymakers in Memphis, Tennessee, are taking a closer look at the housing market in middle-income neighborhoods that are increasingly destabilizing due to neglect.</p>

December 6 - The Brookings Institution

<p>In the second of his two op-eds on the future of transportation in the United States, columnist Neal Peirce looks at the role of public transit.</p>

December 6 - The Seattle Times

<p>Known mostly for paving over everything in sight, the Georgia Department of Transportation has surprised its critics by spending $10 million to retrofit an interstate bridge into a mini-park connecting the Georgia Tech campus.</p>

December 6 - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

<p>With new road-building measures approved and funded in Atlanta, the debate over what to do about the area's traffic and transportation woes is ignoring the severe health impacts of air pollution.</p>

December 6 - Creative Loafing

<p>New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin has appointed as the city's new recovery czar Edward J. Blakely, the man who played an instrumental role in recovery planning after the 1989 San Francisco Bay Area earthquake and the 1991 Oakland fires.</p>

December 6 - The Times Picayune

<p>A neighborhood group in Boston is trying to bring attention to the "poor planning" of the Boston Redevelopment Authority, in hopes to bring greater accountability to the agency.</p>

December 5 - The Boston Globe

<p>Distinguished urban planning professor Melvin Webber, who helped plan and then studied San Francisco's BART system, passed away at 86.</p>

December 5 - UC Berkeley News

<p>More than 57,000 square miles of land in Brazil's Amazon rainforest were recently set aside to be protected from unsustainable logging and development. The area will be the largest protected rainforest area in the world.</p>

December 5 - BBC