The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Interested in finding the road less traveled by? Walkonomics has launched in seven cities around the globe.

July 25 - ASLA The Dirt

A World Research Institute report offers seven prescriptions for designing safer cities. At the top of the list: avoid sprawl.

July 24 - Motherboard

Supporters of New Urbanism may live across the political spectrum, but they all want to live in traditional neighborhoods.

July 24 - Pacific Standard

The federal government surveyed the country to recognize the best (multi-modal) transportation planning projects.

July 24 - Fast Lane (DOT blog)

What happened to the "strategic" in the nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserves? As Politico reveals, heretofore these oil reserves have only been sold when the nation's oil supply was threatened. Republicans leaders now view the SPR as a cash cow.

July 24 - Politico

The late architecture critic Reyner Banham and social historian Mike Davis had opposing viewpoints regarding Los Angeles' ecology, but in many ways their disparate takes complemented each other, writes urban planner Jonathan P. Bell.

July 24 - UrbDeZine

The Northern California city of Arcata has long tolerated the production of California's most second-most-lucrative mood-altering crop. Now, the city is considering an official zoning designation to accommodate marijuana production.

July 24 - Next City

Once again, chronic delays on New Jersey Transit's rail lines in and out of Manhattan serve as a reminder of Gov. Christie's ill fated decision to cancel replacement of the two aging Hudson River tunnels to Penn Station.

July 24 - The New York Times - N.Y. / Region

A new study offers evidence that walking in a natural setting is more beneficial to mental health than walking in an urban setting.

July 24 - New York Times

High quality, high altitude images of that marvel of modern engineering: the freeway interchange.

July 24 - Politico Magazine

A map for good reads and long drives to new places.

July 24 - Atlas Obscura

Could something as simple of the material selected for a residential tower prove the "antidote to suburban blandness"? A Parisian suburb thinks so.

July 23 - Frame

According to the Streetsblog, one of the most transit-rich states in the country squanders the potential benefits of its infrastructure by surrounding stations with sprawling residential communities.

July 23 - Streetsblog USA

Into an active development environment, and the resulting heightened pitch of development controversies, comes a new app from the city of Seattle that allows the public to track development projects.

July 23 - Puget Sound Business Journal

Limitations of data collection mean many questions about housing consumption simply cannot be answered.

July 23 - Housing Perspectives

A publicly available web tool allows access to maps that overlay environmental impacts and the populations they impact (or the populations that manage to avoid such impacts, for that matter).

July 23 - Smithsonian Magazine

A housing development in Houston's Near Northside has made a remarkable commitment to developing affordable units to populations at-risk of being pushed out by gentrification.

July 23 - The Urban Edge

It's easier to install bike lanes when the country is run by a dictator.

July 23 - Fast Co.Exist

We look at what happened in the Senate on Tuesday when the six-year DRIVE Act, relying on a variety of non-user fee revenue mechanisms to finance the Highway Trust Fund shortfall for three years, failed a procedural vote, and where it goes next.

July 23 - The Washington Post

This story broke, moved toward City Council action, then broke again—all in a New York minute.

July 23 - New York Times