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Obama Reaches Out to Governors for Infrastructure Funding Support
Planetizen - Urban Planning, Design and Development Network
Presdient-elect Obama addressed the nation’s governors at a meeting of the National Governors Association on Tuesday, building solidarity between officials at the state and federal levels for an infrastructure-based stimulus package.
Rural Town Brings in Students for Preliminary Planning
Planetizen - Urban Planning, Design and Development Network
Middlebury College students have been commissioned to simply get to know Starksboro, Vermont for a semester. The hope is that their findings will help develop a plan that embraces growth while upholding the things unique to the small town.
UNESCO on UK’s Back for Indadequate Preservation
Planetizen - Urban Planning, Design and Development Network
UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee has issued the UK a warning that it must start doing a better job of preserving its heritage sites. A number of development projects have gotten the green light without any consultation from the committee.
Cemetery Moved For Landfill?
Planetizen - Urban Planning, Design and Development Network
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.
The Budget and Billy the Elephant
Planetizen - Urban Planning, Design and Development Network
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.
IEA boss: Oil price ‘too low’
ASPO International | The Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas -
The price of oil has fallen too far in response to a decline in world demand for fuel, International Energy Agency (IEA) chief Nobuo Tanaka said.
"Sometimes the market is overshooting upwards and downwards, and this time this is definitely happening downwards," Tanaka, the IEA’s executive director, told Reuters.
He did not say where oil prices should be.
The world’s top oil exporter Saudi Arabia said on Saturday crude at $75 a barrel was "fair". Saudi Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi later said that oil at that level would encourage new output from marginal, higher cost-sources.
Tanaka also urged producing countries and international oil companies to pursue their planned projects to avoid a supply crunch in the mid-term when demand in recession-hit nations recovers.
Oil at current levels of about $46 a barrel should not deter Opec countries from developing new oilfields, Tanaka said.
Read more: Upstream Online
The Urban Shortcomings of ‘L.A. Live’
Planetizen - Urban Planning, Design and Development Network
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.
MTA Stimulus Plan Announced
Planetizen - Urban Planning, Design and Development Network
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.
City Tackles Coyotes
Planetizen - Urban Planning, Design and Development Network
Austin officials are wrestling with how to confront coyotes encroaching on suburban and urban neighborhoods.
Chicago Privatizes Parking
Planetizen - Urban Planning, Design and Development Network
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.
