The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>New York City's Department of Transportation says that it will have five new high speed bus lines up and running by 2008.</p>

October 26 - Streetsblog

<p>When an architectural firm decided to locate their office in the Tenderloin District in San Francisco, residents vowed to keep the gritty integrity of their neighborhood from changing.</p>

October 26 - Wall Street Journal via The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

<p>Millions of middle-class homeowners may lose their life savings if the economy slides into a severe recession, so why aren't more politicians, bankers, economists and policy analysts taking the threat of a housing market collapse seriously?</p>

October 26 - Truthout

<p>Consultants find that city officials held back a glaring report detailing the city's failing finances to clear the way for municipal bond sales for a new downtown baseball stadium.</p>

October 26 - The San Diego Union-Tribune

<p>Urban planners in New York City are proposing that the historic 42nd Street be transformed into a pedestrian mall that would cross the entire city.</p>

October 26 - amNew York

<p>Why is Silicon Valley the birthplace of successful startups?</p>

October 25 - The New York Times

<p>Over the past 30 years, eastern Massachusetts has seen a remarkable combination of rising home prices and declining supply of new homes. Edward L. Glaeser and Bryce A. Ward examine whether reductions in new supply reflect a real lack of land or a response to man-made restrictions on development.</p>

October 25 - Harvard Institute Of Economic Research

<p>Harvard Professor Gregory Mankiw lists seven reasons why he would like to see Congress incrementally increase the gas tax by $1 per gallon over the next decade.</p>

October 25 - The Wall Street Journal

<p>Nonprofit organizations are offering foreclosure prevention programs to assist people when their mortgages have become unmanageable.</p>

October 25 - Shelterforce Magazine

<p>A plan to revive downtown Cleveland by creating an design district that would make the city a center of consumer-product design is attracting the support of local experts and officials.</p>

October 25 - The Cleveland Plain Dealer

<p>With a diverse economy no longer dependent on military spending, the city is trying to lessen Uncle Sam's influence in its affairs and exert more control over its own destiny.</p>

October 25 - Voice of San Diego

<p>The City of Detroit and its suburbs continue to battle over one of the nation's largest water and sewer systems.</p>

October 25 - Michigan Land Use Institute

<p>As the city's core continues to gentrify, many low-income families are being left with few if any options for affordable housing.</p>

October 25 - The Los Angeles Times

<p>Environmental consultant Charles Lockwood lists the 10 rules almost every business can follow to make theirs a green building without busting the budget.</p>

October 25 - Slatin

<p>A record-setting amount of apartments in Chicago were converted into condominiums in 2005, and Mayor Richard Daley has formed a task force to limit the trend which is rapidly diminishing affordable housing in the city.</p>

October 25 - Crain's Chicago Business

<p>With rapid population growth and lopsided housing development favoring large single family homes, lower-income households in one corner of Middle America are facing housing challenges similar to those in New York and Los Angeles.</p>

October 24 - The New York Times

<p>An academic in Scotland is looking to add the post-war New Town of East Kilbride to the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites, an illustrious list of culturally important sites from all over the world.</p>

October 24 - The Herald

<p>Planners in Seattle and Sacramento are learning it isn't just nice to share the road -- it is necessary.</p>

October 24 - Sacramento Bee and Seattle Times

<p>Joel Kotkin looks to Reston, Virginia, and other suburban villages as the new way for America to handle an increasing population without succumbing to the negative aspects of traditional sprawl.</p>

October 24 - Metropolis Magazine

<p>Outside developers are rushing into the growing student housing market as colleges and universities look for ways to lower costs.</p>

October 24 - The Hartford Courant