The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Four predictions for the future of the conspicuous, controversial dockless scooter rental industry.

February 3 - CityLab

There are multiple lessons to take from a recent rental housing, but a big one is how the housing crisis is expanding beyond the largest U.S. cities.

February 3 - Bloomberg

Enough European cities have shown it can be done. It's time for U.S. cities to follow suit.

February 3 - Curbed

Highways have been razed, replaced with boulevards, and streets have been placed on road diets, but what about lane reductions on interstate highways? That's one recommendation in a report released Thursday by a panel of experts on the BQE.

February 3 - The New York Times

The annual report on the rental housing market by the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University shows how far and deep the housing affordability crisis has reached.

February 2 - Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania took the dramatic step of officially declaring racism a public health threat. Public policy has yet to mitigate the city's worsening air quality, however.

February 2 - CityLab

There have been many attempts to redesign Penn Station, but not all of them were created equal.

February 2 - New York

Indiana's fifth-largest city, of just under 100,000, residents has 120 roundabouts, more than any city in the U.S., and only 14 traffic lights. The average traffic fatality rate is 83 percent lower than the national average.

February 2 - Smart Cities Dive

The San Francisco Chronicle's urban design critic tempers expectations for Market Street in San Francisco, where the city this week undertook an ambitious, but perhaps over-sold, redesign of the busy street.

January 31 - The San Francisco Chronicle

Unleashed Hounds and Hops is calling itself the state of Minnesota's first dog bar.

January 31 - StarTribune

The market and construction costs are taking a toll on development ambitions in Detroit.

January 31 - Crain's Detroit Business

Upzoning is gaining popularity among planners and politicians in parts of the country as a tool for affordability. But some opponents of the idea maintain that new density will only make housing affordability worse.

January 31 - Curbed

FEATURE

Lee D. Einsweiler, principal and co-founder of Code Studio, offers practiced insight on the relationship between planning and implementation, as well as guidance for a fulfilling career navigating the two.

January 30 - James Brasuell

Could vacancy taxes solve multiple housing challenges at once?

January 30 - WBUR

In every phase of transit development, arts and culture strategies can be employed to inform and enhance the process. Here are examples from three different transit projects around the country.

January 30 - Shelterforce Magazine

GM's first non-internal combustion engine vehicle assembly plant will be in the form of 35-year-old plant straddling the Detroit-Hamtramck border thanks in part to a $2.27 billion state tax credit. Electric pickups, SUVs, and AVs will be produced.

January 30 - Detroit Free Press

For the third year in a row, an effort to increase density near transit in statewide in California has stalled in the legislature.

January 30 - Los Angeles Times

The public is getting a chance to give feedback on the city's proposed changes to a project that would realign and widen Interstate 45 near downtown Houston.

January 30 - Houston Chronicle

Congressional Democrats hope transportation infrastructure can be a winning political point during a campaign year following the impeachment of President Donald Trump.

January 30 - The Hill

Residents are arguing that a Williamsburg development would negatively affect the neighborhood. But it’s a grassroots effort to protect the status quo in a neighborhood where gentrification benefited them.

January 30 - New York Post