The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Legislation is proposed to reduce the number of fatal pedestrian and cyclist accidents in NYC.

September 25 - StreetsBlog NYC

Amidst the bad publicity coming from Volkswagen's engineered fraud on diesel emissions testing comes good news from California Air Resources Board: The cancer risk from airborne toxins, most of which come from burning diesel fuel, dropped 76 percent.

September 25 - California Air Resources Board

With an historic drought pressuring agencies to source more water locally, the Metropolitan Water District is looking to expand an idea pioneered by its neighbors in Orange County.

September 25 - Los Angeles Times

Vocal users of the wildly popular navigation app Waze have pushed the company's developers to look for a solution to its routing algorithm's tendency to send drivers turning left through crowded intersections.

September 25 - The Atlantic

Streetsblog surveys the Texas cities adopting new standards of traffic safety as official policy.

September 25 - Streetsblog USA

Bike advocates in the famously car-centric Atlanta are finding success despite outspoken opposition.

September 25 - WABE

An estimated 1,500 food carts were operating in the city of Chicago—mostly outside the law. The Chicago City Council this week passed a law that allows legitimate operations.

September 25 - Crain's Chicago Business

The Census has confirmed what many trend stories and liberals have been saying for a while now—white people are moving back to cities.

September 25 - The Washington Post - Wonkblog

Mayor Martin J. Walsh and Chris Osgood, the latter Boston's new "chief of streets," are looking to San Francisco as a model of dynamic parking.

September 25 - The Boston Globe

The streets of New York lived up to their infamous reputation this week with two viral videos that seemed almost too perfect.

September 25 - The New Yorker

FEATURE

An op-ed counters concerns about the social equity consequences of Uber by allowing the possibility of public benefits arising from transportation network companies.

September 24 - William Riggs

A new study from the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy makes the case for well-timed, thoughtful use of inclusionary zoning as a tool to support diverse, affordable communities.

September 24 - At Lincoln House

No, this is not a trick question. By definition, you'd think the answer is L.A., where the heat is generated, but it's actually San Bernardino, 56 miles to the east. Turns out that like ozone, heat is transported by the wind.

September 24 - KPCC

After spending more than a decade in government and real estate development, Brian Swett recently joined Arup in the role of Director of Cities and Sustainable Real Estate in the Americas. We asked for his thoughts on urban expansion and development.

September 24 - Doggerel

The Baltimore Planning Commission will soon consider the South Baltimore Gateway Master Plan, which lays out a 20-year agenda to support a wave of entertainment development coming to the neighborhood.

September 24 - The Baltimore Sun

The New York Times recognizes the signs of urban biking's renaissance in the launch of bikeshare systems in New Jersey cities.

September 24 - The New York Times

Houston's Pierce Elevated, a section of the I-45 freeway, is the latest target in the movement to remove urban freeways.

September 24 - The Urban Edge

On the media's responsibility for narratives that enable displacement, rather than inclusion.

September 24 - Grist

Germany has reformed building codes in a marshaling of political will known as the "Culture of Welcome" for an expected one million refugees. German cities, many of them shrinking for decades, see the refugees as an opportunity and a responsibility.

September 24 - The Globe and Mail

Seaside, Florida: what’s possible when vision, tradition, creativity, adaptation, and, yes, time converge in ways that allow for careful study and consideration.

September 24 - PlaceShakers