The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>In a challenge to the popular Google Earth, Microsoft has released a new technology that allows users to view 3D models of cities.</p>

November 9 - CNET News

<p>After years of Beijing's growing middle class buying new flats on the city's outskirts, long commutes are encouraging people to move back into the city's center.</p>

November 9 - China Daily

<p>Two new environmentally-friendly housing projects in Chicago are geared towards the city's homeless population.</p>

November 8 - The New York Times

<p>The new study, which hopes to predict the demand and encourage construction of new transit-friendly homes, comes as the city is in the midst of a major expansion of its light rail system.</p>

November 8 - Denver Business Journal

<p>A city in Ohio is using the lure of free parking in an effort to shoppers in the holiday mood.</p>

November 8 - Toledo Blade

<p>The five newly approved underground and elevated rail transit projects are aimed at easing the notoriously congested traffic of Thailand's capital.</p>

November 8 - International Herald Tribune

<p>Groups of planners, architects, and policy makers descended on downtown New Brunswick, New Jersey, to document the character of the city's urban form as part of a training program in form-based codes.</p>

November 8 - Home News Tribune

<p>The historic South Carolina city is revisiting its preservation strategy as the rapidly growing metropolitan area plows full steam ahead into the 21st century.</p>

November 8 - The Post and Courier

<p>A new affordable housing plan in New York City has solved some problems facing lower income residents, but has also created many woes for people who purhcased shoddy homes through the plan and have been unable to get any help from the city since.</p>

November 8 - WNBC via MSNBC

<p>In downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, a new group of citizens are giving their city's image a boost by providing a variety of services, from picking up litter to redirecting lost visitors.</p>

November 8 - The News & Observer

<p>Seventeen years after moving into a suburban office park, engineering firm O'Brien &amp; Gere announced plans to move hundreds of workers to an environmentally friendly new office complex in downtown Syracuse.</p>

November 8 - Syracuse Post-Standard

<p>Owners of 19th Century homes in Chicago are seeing condo developments moving rapidly into their neighborhoods despite the efforts of preservationists.</p>

November 8 - The New York Times

<p>Former New York City Deputy Transportation Commissioner "Gridlock" Sam Schwartz proposes two ideas to help walkers and bikers get along on NYC's crowded streets.</p>

November 7 - Streetsblog

<p>The city of Greensboro, North Carolina, is seeking input from residents as it attempts to come up with an innovative way to brand itself.</p>

November 7 - News & Record

<p>Architects and other observers are still debating whether or not the built environment can contribute to social decay and urban unrest.</p>

November 7 - The Globe & Mail

<p>An amendment to make Honolulu a pedestrian- and bicycle-friendly city is threatened because of a proposed decrease in on-street parking spaces.</p>

November 7 - Hawaii Reporter

<p>With Metro Atlanta mired in gridlock, a report by the regional planning agency detailed hundreds of transportation projects that were delayed or dropped entirely in 2006.</p>

November 7 - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

<p>FEMA may not be utilizing the Katrina Cottage, but as an innovative solution to affordable gulf coast housing -- and beyond-- the charming 'little cottage that could' is finding new life through the private sector.</p>

November 7 - The Washington Post

<p>With an urban renaissance already underway, local designers are pushing the city to recognize the importance of good architecture and urban design.</p>

November 7 - The Kansas City Star

<p>Challenging some of the ideas in Richard Florida's "The Rise of The Creative Class," a recent article suggests that ignoring the "Procreative Class" -- middle- and working-class families -- can hurt cities too.</p>

November 7 - WorldNetDaily