The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

The showman captured America's attention with a promise to "make America great again" with a $1 trillion infrastructure plan. Receiving scant attention are the infrastructure grant programs he'll cut in order to fund massive defense spending.

March 16 - The Hill

Zoning around Chicago's public transit in relatively affluent areas won't allow for density or any kind of housing other than single family homes.

March 16 - Chicago Cityscape

Next City explores the possible consequences of reported desire by the Trump Administration to cut $6 billion from the budget of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

March 16 - Next City

Women in the building trades are celebrated as part of Women's History Month.

March 16 - The Architect's Newspaper

The city of Berkeley is suffering the consequences of the urban revival—soaring housing costs and humanitarian crises don't reconcile with the city's famously progressive politics.

March 15 - The Guardian

Examining both sides of a debate about whether the urban revival's high-water mark is visible in the restaurant sector.

March 15 - Governing

Stormwater and cities don't mix. Stormwater and nature, however, are well suited for each other.

March 15 - Houston Chronicle

An abandoned railyard on the edge of downtown Lakeland is being transformed into a 160-acre urban green oasis by a group of local philanthropists.

March 15 - Modern Cities

Good and bad news for followers of Brightline, a South Florida rail start-up. Service between West Palm Beach and Fort Lauderdale begins in July, with Miami soon thereafter, but opponents may hamper extension to Orlando.

March 15 - Palm Beach Post

The BART Perks pilot program was the first transit incentive program in the country.

March 15 - CityLab

Concerns about affordability and cultural identity are emerging in Mexican-American and African-American neighborhoods in Tucson.

March 15 - Arizona Public Media

A program under consideration by the Capital Crossroads Special Improvement District could be the envy of central business district's all over the country.

March 15 - The Columbus Dispatch

A massive mall, proposed for a 174-acre stretch of land that abuts the border between Miami-Dade and Broward counties, has so far breezed through approvals. "American Dream Miami" will still require political victories.

March 15 - Sun Sentinel

A new era of rental property management technology will have effects on both the landlord and the tenant side of the equation.

March 15 - Forbes

Here's a surprising anecdote from the real estate market: there's no right way to measure square footage.

March 14 - The Wall Street Journal

A bill with anti-gentrification goals would charge developers who intend to knock down homes along the city’s new bike trail.

March 14 - Chicago Tribune

2016 saw a 25 percent increase in bikeshare trips over the previous year, continuing a five-year trend of rapid growth, according to the National Association of City Transportation Officers.

March 14 - NACTO

The Mercury News issues a pointed critique of the public relations efforts at the California Department of Water Resources in the shadow of this winter’s Oroville Dam crisis.

March 14 - The Mercury News

Portland has built many new apartments in the city's core, and that seems to be slowing down rent growth in the area.

March 14 - The Oregonian

San Francisco Chronicle urban design critic John King reveals more than one layer of planning significance from a project proposed near one of the city's most prominent, but underutilized, intersections.

March 14 - The San Francisco Chronicle