The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

After transforming opinions about public space with the High Line in New York, James Corner Field Operations will shift focus below the tracks—the Underline park under the MetroRail line in Miami.

September 18 - ASLA The Dirt

The satirical site The Onion has been consistently roasting the contemporary conversation about urban living.

September 18 - The Onion

Cities like London are losing their creative edge because the small music venues that foster it are being pushed out.

September 17 - The Guardian

The privately owned and operated bus service known as Leap never recovered from its brush with regulators in May 2015.

September 17 - San Francisco Examiner

A nuclear plant shut down by a vote of the people in the 1980s will find new life as a solar project.

September 17 - Capital Public Radio

Refusing to raise the 20-cent gas tax, creative Texas legislators have devised another scheme to divert existing revenue streams to roads. Last year it was a portion of the Rainy Day Fund. This year, from general sales and motor vehicle sales taxes.

September 17 - KCBD

Writing may not be the key focus for urban planners, but it is a necessary skill for better communicating with the public on important planning issues, writes Clement Lau, a Los Angeles County planner.

September 17 - UrbDeZine

$19.5 million was awarded to 21 planning projects that will leverage transit investment for land use benefit.

September 17 - U.S. Department Of Transportation

Charles Marohn, known as a reformed traffic engineer that launched Strong Towns, recently debated Randall O'Toole, known as the anti-planner. Recommended for understanding the conflicts that arise on the right side of the political spectrum.

September 17 - Strong Towns

A new report from the San Francisco Office of Economic Analysis shows that Prop. 1, an 18-month moratorium on the development of market-rate housing in the Mission to appear on November's ballot, would not meet the housing goals it seeks to attain.

September 17 - San Francisco Examiner

Innocent until proven guilty—unless you're a pedestrian in the court of opinion.

September 17 - Streets MN

A closer look at the data of a study revealing the number of trees on the planet shows several ways to compare and contrast the relative resources, in the form of trees, of countries around the world.

September 17 - The Washington Post

Seattle will implement a process by which neighborhoods can take the Tactical Urbanism practice of DIY sidewalks a step further—by officially approving local designs for sidewalks.

September 16 - Seattle Bike Blog

Add another $200 million to the $910 million shortfall already facing Honolulu's rail project. The changing circumstances surrounding the project won't make it any easier to create a viable funding plan to make up the difference.

September 16 - Honolulu Star-Advertiser

Colorado will call on its Department of Transportation to help make the state "the best state for biking" in the country.

September 16 - The Denver Post

The 1848 High Bridge spanning Harlem River emerged in June from a multi-year, $61.8 million renovation—it's reviewed by Architect and former Empire State Development Corp VP Carol Berens.

September 16 - UrbDeZine

A bill to increase both gas and diesel taxes by five cents in Alabama has passed its first committee on a voice vote and goes to the full House of Representatives on Thursday. The bill indexes both taxes using only two-cent increments.

September 16 - The Anniston Star

The Philly Voice provides a primer on Houston's ascendance up the ranks of major U.S. cities as it evolves into a more urban version of itself.

September 16 - Philly Voice

The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) is exploring alignments for a new light rail line.

September 16 - Urbanize LA

Cities traditionally thought of as car-centric are putting ambitious light rail plans at the center of ambitious plans for transit.

September 16 - Houston Chronicle