The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Two new reports, and one older one, assign unequal significance of the ability of new market rate housing to filter older housing into affordability.

May 31 - East Bay Express

Two USC professors argue that Los Angeles would be better served if Metro could recapture some of its investment in the county's expanding rail system.

May 31 - Los Angeles Times

Detroit's aggressive blight reduction strategy, to demolish vacant homes by the thousands, is coming under scrutiny for rising costs. The FBI and the U.S. Inspector General are investigating.

May 31 - Detroit Free Press

While a federally-funded network of bike paths is in the works elsewhere in the city, the Major Taylor Trail gets little use from Chicago residents. The main problems are a lack of awareness and the South Side's fearsome reputation.

May 31 - Chicago Tribune

Resilience, as such, isn't a problem. But Alex Beam takes issue with the current flood of resilience-related jargon. Can you blame him?

May 31 - The Boston Globe

Two major ballot initiatives would change the state of planning and development in L.A. As the housing and planning crisis reaches new levels, initiative leaders and land-use experts discuss how to create a viable path forward.

May 31 - The Planning Report

As is so often the case worldwide, many Parisians live in communities distinguished by class. The city government wants to change that by inserting thousands of public housing units in wealthy central districts.

May 31 - CityLab

On average, women spend longer in traffic than men—perhaps because of the gendered division of labor that still exists in many households.

May 31 - Pacific Standard

The latest from China: a concept for street-straddling buses that cars could pass underneath. The giant vehicles could improve worsening traffic and already-dire pollution levels, taking the place of many conventional buses.

May 31 - CityLab

How can the New Urban Agenda respect the elderly—and make cities better for all of us in the process?

May 30 - Next City

They could opt for a one percent, 30-year infrastructure tax, a .75 percent, 20-year transportation sales tax, approve both, or reject both. The two competing measures arise from differences between the county's 31 cities and county commissioners.

May 30 - Sun Sentinel

Yes, gas prices are both lowest and highest. When compared to past Memorial Day weekends, it's the lowest since 2005, and by no coincidence the highest amount of travelers will take to the roads since the same year. Guess what that is doing to VMT?

May 30 - Daily Fuel Gauge Report (AAA)

Mayor Ed Murray released a 20-year growth plan, Seattle 2035, that retains LOS, but rather than measuring vehicle congestion, measures mode share, consistent with his vision for a green and sustainable city, but rattling The Seattle Times.

May 30 - The Seattle Times

An exploration, historical and geographic, of St. Paul's Wheelock Parkway reveals the twists and turns of transportation infrastructure.

May 30 - MinnPost

Next City shares news of a colorful new book for children that introduces the objects of a environmentally-friendly build environment.

May 29 - Next City

Some users accrue more data than others.

May 29 - New York Post

Downtown L.A.'s Arts District transformed from an industrial sector to a vibrant, mixed-use neighborhood. Now, the community's attempts to protect their vision from haphazard development illuminate Los Angeles's broken planning process.

May 29 - The Planning Report

An already controversial proposal to disperse homeless shelters and service around Washington, D.C. is finding new ways to be controversial.

May 29 - Greater Greater Washington

The retail sector got a wake up call this month.

May 29 - The Record

When it comes to one particularly invasive plant species in Pittsburgh, some food retail businesses are saying, "if you can't beat it, eat it."

May 28 - The Wall Street Journal