The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Elected officials in the Atlanta area decide to relocate a historic cemetery to make room for a landfill. NAACP officials believe the relocation fits a pattern of racial discrimination.

December 5 - Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Los Angeles' budget shortfall could mean sending its zoo's only elephant to a Northern California sanctuary. Over time, funding for city services are also predicted to get slashed.

December 5 - The Wall Street Journal

L.A. Live, the city's new megadevelopment, does little to engage the growing downtown area and ends up being little more than another separate commercial enclave in a city desperately needing closely-knit urbanism, according to Christopher Hawthorne.

December 5 - Los Angeles Times

Relatively modest fair hikes, in places where fares previously did and did not exist, and a regional mobility tax are a part of the plan to rescue the Metropolitan Transportation Agency from further debt.

December 4 - The New York Times

Austin officials are wrestling with how to confront coyotes encroaching on suburban and urban neighborhoods.

December 4 - News 8 Austin

For $1.16 billion, Chicago Parking Meters LLC, has won the rights to manage Chicago's parking meters. This is one step the city has taken to ease budget shortfalls.

December 4 - The Wall Street Journal

The state is on board for a new plan that involves building an electric vehicle transportation system, complete with a slew of web-based battery recharging stations.

December 4 - The New York Times

The city of San Angelo, Texas bucks a regional trend towards stricter regulations for signs used as advertising.

December 4 - San Angelo Standard Times

Around the country, cities have been forced to scrimp by cutting back on holiday-themed light displays.

December 4 - USA Today

A rescue package for New York’s debt-ridden M.T.A. includes two new revenue generators: first-ever tolls for the East and Harlem River bridges, and a 12-county, corporate payroll tax, to supplement fare and toll increases and transit service cuts.

December 4 - The New York Times

Architect Andres Duany spoke in front of architects on Tuesday, pointing out 50 years of mistakes made by architects and planners in the UK.

December 4 - The Guardian (UK)

Clearly it has aroused enormous excitement and hope amongst California's smart growth advocates, but the new anti-sprawl, greenhouse gas-reducing law, SB 375, may do more in the tone it sets than in the changes its supporters hope it makes.

December 4 - San Francisco Chronicle

The New Jersey Transit's Secaucus commuter rail station is the topic of scorn by a New York Times editorial because it doesn't provide commuter parking - even though it was designed as a 'transfer station'.

December 4 - The New York Times

FEATURE

December 4 - Nate Berg

As more and more of China's "floating population" return from their city jobs to their farms, officials brace for backlash from the recently unemployed.

December 3 - The Wall Street Journal

Between the invasive species, questions of drinking water safety, and dipping water levels, the Great Lakes have been taking a beating lately.

December 3 - The Christian Science Monitor

In a place as dynamic as New York City, balancing preservation with development pressure is no easy task.

December 3 - New York Times

The transformation of Copenhagen from a car-choked thoroughfare to a lively, pedestrian center began in 1962 with the closing of the Strøget, and folks walked and biked in record numbers. Now architect Jan Gehl hopes to spread this new urban culture.

December 3 - The Globe and Mail

The mayor of Birmingham, Alabama, faces a slew of federal charges related to bribery and abuses of power.

December 3 - Birmingham News

The mayor of San Francisco delivers his annual state of the city message in ten 45-minute segments on YouTube rather than in person.

December 3 - NPR