The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

We've seen builders responding to high demand for residential housing Manhattan and Seattle, but could it be happening in San Francisco? Sort of, according to San Francisco Chronicle business columnist, Kathleen Pender.

April 8 - San Francisco Chronicle

In a substantial part of the city, parking requirements will be eliminated for subsidized and senior housing.

April 8 - StreetsBlog NYC

Chatty Maps break down the sound profile of cities.

April 8 - Digital Trends

Transportation planners in Bangor, Maine are accusing state officials of holding regional transportation projects hostage to force the construction of a controversial connector project.

April 8 - Bangor Daily News

A pair of very different stories offers insight into the urban lives of animals.

April 8 - Blue Dot Magazine

FEATURE

Chloe E. Taft explores the transition of Bethlehem, Pa., from Rust Belt company town to gambling mecca.

April 7 - Josh Stephens

Since a March opening greeted with fanfare for its on-time and under budget delivery, local business are crediting the new light rail line connecting Downtown Seattle to Capitol Hill with big sales bumps.

April 7 - KUOW

A lack of Congressional approval almost killed a controversial dam removal project on the Klamath River in Oregon and California. The states and the Interior Department have found a way to proceed.

April 7 - Associated Press via The Register-Guard

Florida Governor Rick Scott signed an omnibus transportation bill earlier this week that makes a dozen changes to the work of the Florida Department of Transportation.

April 7 - Mass Transit

Urban design critic John King’s aversion to LinkedIn’s new office space points to long-standing tensions in San Francisco.

April 7 - San Francisco Chronicle

The other day, a new Shinkansen bullet line was added in Japan, the first to operate high-speed rail in 1964. The U.S. has yet to build is first line. More troubling is the decay we've seen in the relatively new metro lines, like D.C. Metro and BART.

April 7 - The Conversation

Berkeley's Resilience Strategy is one of the first in the nation, and one of the first work products of the Rockefeller Foundation's 100 Resilient Cites network.

April 7 - Berkeley Patch

A new federal housing program is unique in its approach but all too common in its scope.

April 7 - CityLab

Pritzker Prize winner Thom Mayne and leading New Urbanist planner Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk squared off in a debate about the future of Baltimore.

April 7 - ASLA The Dirt

An ambitious proposal to build seven new homeless shelters around the District of Columbia, with a price tag of $660 million, has been attacked on several fronts.

April 7 - The Washington Post

An article in Quartz laments the underwhelming results of a generation of gadgets intended to make houses technologically enabled.

April 6 - Quartz

There's good news and bad news in a new report on the state of transportation infrastructure in the state of Illinois.

April 6 - Chi.Streetsblog

The Kansas City Land Bank has the funding to back up plans to begin transforming blighted, vacant lots into thriving groves of poplar trees.

April 6 - The Kansas City Star

The bus rapid transit route connecting Downtown Detroit with Ann Arbor, or also the Detroit Metro Airport, is under consideration as part of a master planning effort by the Regional Transit Agency.

April 6 - Deadline Detroit

Juno, a new transportation network company launching to a small group of testers in New York this month, is hoping to shake up the business model adopted by its predecessors in the field.

April 6 - The Washington Post