The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>With Downtown Austin exploding with new mixed-use development, the redevelopment of a low-income apartment complex into a new mixed-use project has affordable-housing advocates worried that the city's supply of below-market-rate housing is vanishing.</p>

November 16 - Austin American-Statesman

<p>A new proposal would make Washington D.C. the first major city in the country to require most large scale construction to follow green building standards.</p>

November 16 - The Washington Post

<p>The current taxi system in New York is dysfunctional and needs a change. Here's one idea to change it through simple better street design.</p>

November 16 - Streetsblog

<p>This article from <em>Smart Growth Online</em> looks at the increasing concentration of fast food restaurants in many cities and the resulting impact on public health, and also offers some advice to communities for using land use strategies to limit the i</p>

November 16 - Smart Growth Online

<p>The City of Boulder, Colorado makes history by approving the nation's first carbon tax.</p>

November 16 - Reuters via CNN Money.com

<p>What happens when the professional planning staff advising an elected board disagrees with the conclusions of the elected board, and is required to submit a proposal that the planners opposed to a state regulatory agency for approval?</p>

November 16 - Sun-Sentinel

<p>In Baltimore, gentrification seems to be taking its toll on the red-light district known as "the Block."</p>

November 16 - The Next American City

<p>New studies by the Forest Service suggest that thinning forests as done under President Bush’s Healthy Forests Initiative may worsen forest damage, not reduce it.</p>

November 15 - The New York Times

<p>A practicing planner and academic proposes as his Ph.D. dissertation an ecosystem approach to planning, and asks how we begin to place our cities back into their ecological context.</p>

November 15 - Ashwani Vasishth

<p>Critics oppose a major development including a resort, golf course, and housing, on the lower slopes of Palm Spring's Mt. San Jacinto.</p>

November 15 - The Los Angeles Times

<p>Sixty-nine percent of Florida's voters approved an amendment to the State's Constitution to limit government ability to take property for private development. How will this homeowner victory impact the revitalization efforts of cities?</p>

November 15 - The St. Petersburg Times

<p>The appeal of Clarendon, Virginia, a homey neighborhood outside Washington, D.C., is threatening to wipe out its quirky character with a wave of upscale chain retailers, high-end restaurants, and luxury condominiums.</p>

November 15 - The Washington Post

<p>With development encroaching on mountains, Indian lands, and protected species' habitats, projections are that the city will run out of room to grow.</p>

November 15 - USA Today

<p>Should the people who build low-income housing get a prevailing wage? Community developers say they can't afford to pay it, but can they really fight poverty if they don't?</p>

November 15 - Shelterforce Magazine

<p>In an unprecedented move, the Province of Alberta's energy regulator has issued a warning that time is running out to put in place the infrastructure -- including roads, schools and health care -- needed to keep pace with oil sands development.</p>

November 15 - The Globe and Mail

<p>Wal-Mart issues a one-year progress report on its experimental eco-store in Aurora, Colorado.</p>

November 15 - The Los Angeles Times

<p>Once a magnet for writers, painters and other artistic types, Paris' Mayor wants the city to attract the laptop toting young bohemians that represent the new 'creative class'.</p>

November 15 - The Los Angeles Times

<p>Los Angeles' mayor has been a tireless advocate for mass transit, but some wonder why the mayor doesn't make use of the system himself.</p>

November 15 - The Los Angeles Times

<p>Voters across the political spectrum approved 77% of the 128 tax and bond initiatives on ballots in 23 states last Tuesday.</p>

November 14 - CNN

<p>The Oakland A's sign a deal with the technology company Cisco to replace the Oakland Coleseum for a high-tech new ballpark which will set the standard for future stadiums.</p>

November 14 - CNN