The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

New analysis of U.S. Census data dating back to 1880 reveals more about the breadth and depth of patterns of racial segregation.

May 22 - Vox

The House voted 387-35 on Tuesday to extend transportation funding for two months—using the remaining funds in the Highway Trust Fund.

May 22 - Politico Morning Transportation

Someone's done the hard work of finding, sorting, and stitching together millions of photos from the Internet to create animated portraits of the evolution of places.

May 22 - The Verge

The Citi Foundation and Living Cities announced $3 million in grant funding to help cities adopt innovative practices in community engagement. Albuquerque, Atlanta, Baltimore, New Orleans, and Seattle will have 18 months to empower citizens.

May 22 - Next City

Newly released population data provides entre for a discussion about the nature of cities.

May 22 - FiveThirtyEight

China has added to the ranks of the world's megacities at a ridiculous clip. Even so, inland cities have tended to languish in anonymity. With new policies and economic orientations, the Chonquings are starting to compete with the Shanghais.

May 22 - The Diplomat

A Wall Street Journal trend piece argues that a shift toward luxury apartments in cities across the United States is driving up the cost of rent throughout the market.

May 22 - The Wall Street Journal

After a splashy project recently hit its crowdfunding goals, one write dares to suggest that such fund raising methods might not be the best idea.

May 21 - The Guardian Cities

The Architecture Billings Index fell for the second time this year, but so far it seems the rough winter is more responsible for the downturn that a potential double dip of the Great Recession.

May 21 - American Institute of Architects

Natural gas drilling was recently approved in North Carolina, but new operations are now on hold until the state Supreme Court resolves an issue about the process for appointing environmental review positions.

May 21 - WRAL

The U.S. Census Bureau's 2014 population estimates shows persistent trends of growth in the Sun Belt along with a few other noteworthy data points.

May 21 - U.S. Census Bureau

Omaha sets out to prove that strong transit isn't just "a Portland thing or a New York thing."

May 21 - CityLab

Leap, one of three luxury commute services competing with public transit in San Francisco's Marina District, has run afoul with the state regulatory system and was forced to shut down until it obtains an operating license.

May 21 - San Francisco Chronicle

After an initial proposal a year ago, prompting immediate and strong criticism, the Chicago Transit Authority has completed its environmental assessment of a proposal designed to improve service capacity at the infamous bottleneck of Clark Junction.

May 21 - Crain's Chicago Business

Detroit is infamous for its lack of regional transit (or local transit for that matter), but the Regional Transit Authority of Southeast Michigan this month launched a master planning process that could finally fill some of the region's gaps.

May 21 - The Detroit News

Tuesday's pipeline spill resulted in an oil slick off the Santa Barbara coast. While incomparable in size to the 1969 spill resulting from an oil platform blowout, it is yet another reminder of environmental consequences of oil dependency.

May 21 - Los Angeles Times

A new Deloitte report evaluates ways that new technologies and mobility services help reduce the need to own and use private automobiles. Helsinki's audacious goal: By 2025, no city resident will need to own a private car.

May 21 - Smart Mobility

On op-ed in the Oregonian makes the case for Portland to design and build a unique architectural icon that differentiates the city from its rivals in the Pacific Northwest.

May 20 - The Oregonian

The Trust for Public Land released its 2015 ParkScore today, ranking the 75 largest U.S. cities on the metrics of acreage, facilities and investment, and access.

May 20 - Trust for Public Land

With snowpack down to 16 percent of normal levels, Washington officials are bracing for drought.

May 20 - Los Angeles Times