The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

With much of the infrastructure for the failed, 630-foot Ferris wheel project partially in place, investors are looking for ways to bring the New York Wheel back to life.

July 12 - The Architect's Newspaper

The search for new road funding continues in Michigan.

July 12 - Detroit Free Press

In “Redlined: A Novel of Boston” by Richard W. Wise, an organizer's murder in 1970s Jamaica Plain exposes an epic battle over the future of American cities.

July 12 - Shelterforce Magazine

Could the pandemic be a tipping point for a century of car-centric planning in New York City's to give way to a more bike-friendly city?

July 12 - The New York Times

Developments funded by Los Angeles' Proposition HHH homeless housing bond has been delayed for three key reasons.

July 10 - Los Angeles Times

It has been over 25 years since urban planning professor Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris discussed the idea of "mobile parks" to meet recreational needs. The idea is still relevant today.

July 10 - Parks & Recreation Magazine

The president of Hudson Companies and The Planning Report’s first editor, David Kramer, discusses New York City’s COVID response and recovery and its likely impact on multifamily housing development going forward.

July 10 - The Planning Report

Frances Goldin influenced a generation of housing organizers. Her vision was of a multiracial, multiethnic community based on the principles of justice. Her instruction to us was to fight for it.

July 10 - Shelterforce Magazine

At the request of the state's largest health network, Arizona has activated the "Crisis Standards of Care," meaning that if a hospital lacks capacity, it can turn away new patients, likely to be seniors, sending them home. Other states may follow.

July 9 - Arizona Mirror

The controversial subway plan announced by Ontario Premier Doug Ford in April 2020 now has legislative support in the form of a new law that expedites the planning, design, and construction process for transit projects in the province.

July 9 - Mass Transit

The New Partnership on Infrastructure coalition's "America's New Playbook for Infrastructure" calls for just and resilient development moving forward from the coronavirus pandemic.

July 9 - Smart Cities Dive

Ventilator availability is a major indicator for states in the South and West that are seeing record hospitalizations, but in New York, where Gov. Cuomo announced that New York City had moved to Phase III of reopening, the topic was ventilation.

July 9 - Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo

A wealthy enclave in the middle of the Los Angeles basin could soon have a new look on its skyline.

July 9 - The Architect's Newspaper

The new "Solving the Climate Crisis" report could provide guidance and direction if federal leadership in Washington, D.C. finally decides to take aggressive steps to reduce carbon emissions and adapt to a changed climate.

July 9 - American Planning Association

A local transit advocate is using legal pressure in an effort to hold the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) accountable for bus transit cuts in the early months of the pandemic.

July 9 - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Systemic racism is blamed for the glaring and tragic racial disparities of the COVID-19 illness in the United States.

July 9 - The New York Times

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During the last 120 years, our mobility increased by an order of magnitude, but so did associated costs. Are we better off? Could we do better?

July 8 - Todd Litman

POLITICO Magazine surveyed designers, architects, planners, doctors, psychologists, logisticians, and others, asking them how they would redesign the world for the Covid-19 era and beyond.

July 8 - Politico Magazine

From the outset, defining the culture and character of a city is a daunting task, especially when the city around you disappears.

July 8 - Sustaining Place

Washington State planners have completed a feasibility study into the proposed East-West Passenger Rail System for Washington State.

July 8 - The Urbanist