The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

The promoters of a new park hope to provide a model for how replacing surface parking lots with green space can mitigate urban heat and boost urban biodiversity.

June 7 - Greater Greater Washington

With coordinated effort at the local, state, and federal levels, the United States could meet its goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030.

June 7 - Berkeley Lab

PLANOPEDIA

“If you build it, they will come.”

June 6 - Diana Ionescu

Oregon, the first state to end single-family zoning statewide, is on the cusp of another historic planning reform as the Land Conservation and Development Commission nears approval for new “Climate-Friendly and Equitable Communities” rules.

June 6 - Sightline Institute

Twice as big as Downtown L.A.’s tallest skyscraper and bigger than Disney’s California Adventure Park with room to spare, the largest Amazon warehouse in the world is under construction in Southern California’s Inland Empire.

June 6 - Orange County Register

The Los Angeles County Regional Park and Open Space District is making $23 million available for youth and veteran job training and recreation access programs.

June 6 - Los Angeles County Regional Park and Open Space District

With the pandemic-era rent relief program ending, many California households are still struggling to pay back their rent debt and find affordable housing.

June 6 - CALmatters

A new project catalogs the city’s history of displacement and its impact on communities of color.

June 6 - VCU News

New York City’s new mayor, Eric Adams, has announced a new signature zoning initiative.

June 6 - New York City Office of the Mayor

FEATURE

The technology to make traffic enforcement obsolete is becoming available. But in the U.S. willing to use it?

June 6 - Angie Schmitt

A new book illuminates the history and meaning of the bicycle in human society.

June 5 - The Atlantic

As more vacationers opt for private lake homes or rental cabins, developers in northern Wisconsin are converting motels into badly needed worker housing.

June 5 - WXPR

Local officials hope to use federal infrastructure funding to make safety improvements on Roosevelt Boulevard, where more than a tenth of the city’s traffic deaths happen.

June 5 - Insurance Journal

An elevated park in Rotterdam shows how green roofs can cool cities and create public parks in tight quarters.

June 5 - Surface Magazine

Few people are aware that the iconic concert venue is also a public park where visitors can walk around and exercise.

June 3 - Los Angeles Times

A new neighborhood dubbed “The Heights” is planned for the East Side of St. Paul, Minnesota.

June 3 - Pioneer Press

Research from late 2021 documented the footprint of urban gardens in Detroit, finding evidence of inequities but not gentrification.

June 3 - WDET

A new initiative highlights the stories of Black homeowners in New York City and the challenges that Black homebuyers continue to face across the country.

June 3 - Black Housing Project

Today’s massive modern distribution centers have outsized impacts on adjacent neighborhoods. But outdated zoning codes often let them slip through the cracks with no environmental review.

June 2 - Next City

Bipartisan political support, billions in state and federal funding, and an unrelenting drought are creating momentum for the Sites Reservoir project in California's northern Central Valley.

June 2 - Los Angeles Times