The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>Transit officials in Minneapolis are happy about the rise in gas prices -- a trend that has caused an increase in ridership. The city's cyclists and environmentalists are also finding benefits.</p>

May 20 - Minneapolis Star-Tribune

<p>A program to redistribute farmland from wealthy landowners to the rural poor in Venezuela has shown success for the new farmers as well as violence on both sides of the struggle.</p>

May 20 - International Herald Tribune

<p>The Boston suburb of Boxford is on the verge of approving a measure that would allow residents to rent extra housing space at state affordable housing prices. Boxford and other suburbs are looking to reduce their low stock of affordable housing.</p>

May 20 - The Boston Globe

<p>City dwellers and suburban homeowners alike are seeking solutions to muffle the constant stream of sound in their homes.</p>

May 19 - The New York Times

<p>Many modern day manufactured homes have upgraded their looks, attracting both buyers looking for value as well as style and sustainability.</p>

May 19 - San Jose Mercury News

<p>New plans to clean up the Mapocho River demonstrate Chile's desire to turn Santiago into attractive city and regional business hub.</p>

May 19 - Bloomberg

<p>During a press conference about the Clinton Foundation's efforts to promote green building, the former U.S. President gave Mayor Bloomberg's congesting pricing plan a thumbs up.</p>

May 19 - International Herald Tribune

<p>The Masdar Initiative is billed as the first zero carbon and waste free city to be ever constructed.</p>

May 19 - Fosters and Partners Press Release

<p>The 20-year plan proposes an airport rail link, extensions to the transit system and the bicycle network, new streetcar lines, and tolls on major highways and bridge links to the island. City council will vote on this plan in the fall.</p>

May 18 - CBC News

<p>A growing movement of eco-conscious homeowners are choosing to forgo commercial power service in favor of their home-based systems based on solar and wind generators.</p>

May 18 - The New York Times

<p>King County Metro plans to add 500 new hybrid buses to its fleet -- increasing service by nearly a third.</p>

May 18 - The Seattle Times

<p>A new website promises to link eco-conscious commuters who are looking to carpool to work.</p>

May 18 - Cambridge Chronicle

<p>City leaders hopes the new codes, replacing the current regulations which were adopted in 1968, will make it easier to build safe and sustainable buildings.</p>

May 18 - International Construction Review

<p>Though the country has experienced an economic boom, the number of Indians living in slums has increased 100 percent in the last two decades.</p>

May 18 - Times Online UK

<p>While other countries around the globe forge ahead with investment in transportation innovations such as road congestion pricing and high speed rail, the U.S. takes a wait and see attitude.</p>

May 18 - Truckinginfo.com

<p>After initially supporting the city's new mixed-use ordinance, some residents of East Austin asking the city to apply the brakes on adoption of the measure due to concerns about gentrification.</p>

May 18 - Austin American-Statesman

<p>With D.C. neighborhoods attracting new white upper-income residents and lower-income black families fleeing for the more affordable suburbs, the nation's capital is poised to lose its longtime status as a black-majority city.</p>

May 18 - The Washington Post

<p>At the C40 Climate Summit in New York City, the Mayor of London explained the role that local business played in implementing that city's congestion pricing program.</p>

May 18 - Streetsblog

<p>Lawmakers in Arizona are hoping to get two land-use measures on the ballot that would allow the state to sell off trust land to conservationists, and make right-of-way lands available for road construction.</p>

May 18 - The Business Journal of Phoenix

<p>A compilation of articles addressing common questions concerning global warming.</p>

May 17 - NewScientist.com