Humor
Hold the Presses: Alaska Gas Tax Increases Today
Alaska's 11.30 cents per-gallon gas tax, lowest in the United States, increases today for the first time in 45 years. As of July 1, the tax increases to 12.25 cents. Yes, by less than a penny. Percentage wise, though, it looks bigger: 8.4 percent.
Friday Funny: Which City Should Be Home to a Real-Life Jurassic Park?
CityLab stages a humorous competition for the location of a likely-to-go-horribly-wrong tourist attraction.
Friday Funny: Is the Design for 2 WTC Too King Kong-Friendly?
Henry Melcher reports on a humorous response to the new renderings revealed for the future 2 WTC tower (also the future home of 21st Century Fox and News Corp), designed by Bjarke Ingels Group.
Friday Funny: San Francisco Changing Locations Due to Rising Rents
The Onion provides a new take on the "San Francisco is over" quip that has been a popular reaction to the rising cost of housing in the City by the Bay.
Friday Fun: Can You Name These City Skylines?
Pop quiz hotshot: can you name the city by looking at silhouettes of their skylines?
Friday Funny: City Wants to Skip the Hard Parts of Revitalization
The Onion provides a fake dispatch from a city that wants lobster roll stands and high-end noodle bars on every corner, like now.
Friday Funny: When Subway Announcements Get Real
A McSweeney's post satirizes the obfuscations and euphemisms of public transit system announcements by finally putting things in brutally frank terms.
Friday Funny? The Onion Imagines the Future of the Hit and Run
Satire is supposed to make us uncomfortable. A recent totally fake news report imagining hit-and-run technology for self-driving cars (called the "Culpability-Evasion System") definitely succeeded there.
Urbanism March Madness
The politicking and positioning over who will control the destiny of the land and infrastructure of the country never ends. It's like a dance. Or a tournament.
Study: Oil Prices to Remain Volatile Indefinitely
A new study from the Rational Assumptions think tank provides a completely unsurprising prognostication regarding the future of the oil market.
Tesla to Release Enviro-Premium Tesla-P
Tesla has revealed the specs on the Tesla-P, a new model that will be sure to excite the public realm-conscious urbanite.
Last Night on Family Feud: 'Name the Starchitect'
Last night's edition of the Family Feud gave starchitects a pop culture moment.
Matthew McConaughey to Star in 'The Urban Planner'
Coming soon to theaters near you: Academy Award Winner Matthew McConaughey portrays an upstart urban planner who learns to throw away the old code and embrace uncertainty.
Spell Check Now Speaks Planner
Microsoft announced a big update to the Word spell check dictionary today to include the constantly evolving and often incomprehensible language of planning.
7 Unpopular Urbanists
You know them when you see them—they're the ones ready to suck the winds out of your sails and set you back at least a month, but probably more, of good work and high morale.
Pop Quiz: Can You Tell the Difference Between Tiger Woods and a TIGER Grant?
Test your knowledge of discretionary infrastructure funding mechanisms and one of golf's most famous figures with this pop quiz.
Gov. Christie Hired to Try Reverse Psychology on Bertha Tunnel-Boring Machine
With the Bertha tunneling-boring machine stuck in the mud under Seattle for more than a year, officials turned to a politician known for his ability to stop transportation in its tracks.
Top 5 Ways to Tell You're in 'Big Asphalt'
You are surrounded by parking lots and pavement so vast you can see the curvature of the Earth.
Roadway Interchange or Celtic Knot?
Pop quiz hotshot: Think you can tell the difference between a roadway interchange and a Celtic Knot?
Friday Funny: Your Subway Train Says a Lot About You
Clickhole, the Buzzfeed-style spinoff of The Onion, has produced a listicle of what the New York Subway line you're riding says about your personality. Prepare to learn nothing and laugh a little.
FREE Course: Walkable City 1: Why Walkability?
After describing his path towards focusing on walkability as the essence of good planning, Jeff Speck marches through his five principal reasons for making more walkable places.
Reinventing Malls: Planning Alchemy—Turning Gray Fields Into Gold
The course focuses on the opportunities and imperatives that shape reinvention of mall sites.
KFH Group Inc.
Greater Baltimore Committee
Eagle County Government
The Architects Foundation
University of Cincinnati Online
The Pocatello Development Authority
The Urban Renewal Agency of the City of Pocatello
