The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

The Healthy Rowhouse Project seeks to improve the health of Philadelphians and preserve critical affordable housing by using innovative strategies to improve housing conditions in thousands of rowhouses each year.

October 14 - The Citizen

AB 744, a bill which requires no more than one parking space be provided for every two units of affordable and senior housing proximate to transit, was signed by Gov. Jerry Brown on Oct. 9.

October 14 - Smart Growth America

With fewer human workers available to meet demand, Japanese construction company Komatsu is turning to automated equipment and drones.

October 14 - The Verge

With market pressures pushing landowners in London to build pricey new flats, local music venues are getting the boot; but does this make sense economically?

October 14 - Citymetric

The suburban city of Plano, Texas, located outside of Dallas, approved this week a comprehensive plan that overcame vocal opposition to the idea of mixed-use, urban developments.

October 14 - D Magazine

Most cities around the world can be broken down into 27 typical patterns of development, according to the work of a researcher at UC Davis.

October 14 - The Washington Post - Wonkblog

New leadership at Los Angeles County's Metro says its planning efforts should consider much more than transit routes and service—including the potential for gentrification in the neighborhoods where it's investing.

October 14 - Los Angeles Times

One of the world's most popular navigation apps, Waze, has aggregated the data generated by 50 million users to develop a "Driver's Satisfaction Index." Perhaps surprisingly, auto-oriented Phoenix, Arizona leads all cities on the index.

October 14 - Waze

With hot-button issues like the Hudson Tunnel crisis forcing a new perspective about the connection of New York city to its surrounding region, Mayor de Blasio has responded by creating a new office of regional planning.

October 14 - Politico New York

It's simple, according to this Washington Post column: better buses make a better city.

October 13 - The Washington Post

Sacramento's parking revenues will pay for the city's share of the arena construction loan.

October 13 - Sacramento Bee

The United Nations agency for urban development, UN-Habitat, has announced a partnership with the World Bank to implement several Sustainable Development Goals focusing on urban sustainability, safety, inclusiveness, and resilience.

October 13 - United Nations-Habitat

Gov. Jerry Brown signed stripped-down legislation that sets a target for the state of generating 50 percent of electricity from renewable sources by 2030 and doubling energy efficiency standards in buildings by the same year.

October 13 - SF Gate

Local officials, planners, and other civic leaders have joined together to look at how the city can bring neighborhoods split by freeways back together again.

October 13 - The Dallas Morning News

Recognizing that providing transit passes to students costs about the same as operating a system of buses in-house, some schools are giving students access to public transit.

October 13 - MinnPost

"There is just too much to learn," from open streets events, says Philadelphia Inquirer Architecture Critic Inga Saffron.

October 13 - Philadelphia Inquirer

Faced with an estimated 24 square miles of vacant land, Detroit is turning its empty lots into test beds of urban innovation.

October 13 - Detroit Free Press

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The phrase "traffic congestion" can be misleading; some reductions in traffic speed are less harmful than others.

October 13 - Michael Lewyn

$285 million in capital dollars through 2019 will help fund parks in New York not called the High Line and lacking high-profile private backing.

October 13 - Inhabitat NYC

A rapidly changing population might make Nevada a more thorough exemplar of the challenges and opportunities presented by the "diversity explosion" than its neighboring state to the west.

October 12 - Governing