The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>Ottawa's proposed Clean Air Act would repudiate Canada's Kyoto commitments, and not produce results until 2050, writes John Ibbitson.</p>

October 21 - The Globe and Mail

<p>While all eyes are on the potential housing bubble bursting, apartment rents are rising, over ten times more rapidly than home prices are falling in the Bay Area.</p>

October 21 - The San Francisco Chronicle

<p>"A decent place to live" may top holiday lists this shopping season.</p>

October 21 - New Urban News

<p>A $1.5 billion dollar mixed use development proposed along the banks of the Mississippi River in St. Paul, Minnesota, has been voted down by the city's planning commission after it refused to approve a zoning variance for 30 story condos.</p>

October 21 - St. Paul Pioneer Press

<p>The planning process in Cape Town, South Africa, is struggling with major delays as changes in the decision-making structure have left planning officials with little or no authority to approve plans.</p>

October 21 - Cape Times

<p>The Onion reports on how an 'insane' California intersection is the most likely site of 'awesome' car crashes.</p>

October 20 - The Onion

<p>The business of making loans to poor people in underdeveloped countries is entering a critical period of development. Foundations and other non-governmental groups have shown the private sector that money can be made by lending to these populations.</p>

October 20 - Knowledge at Wharton

<p>Americans are buying second homes in Paris.</p>

October 20 - The New York Times

<p>As post-war development reaches 50 years of age, preservationists and local officials in Arlington, Texas, grapple with the question of what to preserve.</p>

October 20 - Governing

<p>A trio of young but idealistic Oberlin College students are developing a new mixed use project on a vacant downtown lot.</p>

October 20 - The New York Times

<p>Clare Pfeiffer Ramsey interviews real estate guru Chris Leinberger on developing walkable urbanity in Detroit.</p>

October 20 - Model-D

<p>Policies and initiatives based on class and race are essential in altering the unequal patterns of opportunity in cities and suburbs.</p>

October 20 - Shelterforce Magazine

<p>Grants, contributions, a collaboration with the Institute for Classical Architecture &amp; Classical America, open minds, and tight budgets are helping Habitat for Humanity raise its design standards.</p>

October 20 - New Urban News

<p>Abandoned military mansions in Brooklyn are on the verge of being razed and replaced with a supermarket. Many historic preservationists are opposing the assertion that the late 19th Century mansions can't be salvaged.</p>

October 20 - Preservation Online

<p>An international design competition based in Virginia has yielded the first 'cradle-to-cradle' housing, made of sustainable materials able to be used and reused with no loss of quality and limited environmental impact.</p>

October 20 - Grist

<p>Builders of a proposed multi-billion dollar redevelopment project in Riviera Beach, Florida are considering legal action against the state and city after being told that eminent domain will not be used to acquire properties for the project.</p>

October 19 - Sun Sentinel

<p>Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to buy a massive Chinese "hypermarket" for close to $1 billion, making Wal-Mart the largest food and department store network in China.</p>

October 19 - The Wall Street Journal

<p>For decades Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village has provided some of the most affordable housing in Manhattan. However, the completion of a $5.4 billion dollar real estate deal, the largest in American history, has residents worried about the future.</p>

October 19 - The New York Times

<p>A new study from the Brookings Institute attempts to locate and describe the exurbs of large metropolitan areas in the United States.</p>

October 19 - The Brookings Institution

<p>As Asia ascends, we can learn a lot from how they preserve their past and celebrate the historic urban form.</p>

October 19 - The Next American City