The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

The latest Chapter 11 in a familiar story.

April 7 - The Washington Post

St. Louis will have electric buses running around town for a week, but that doesn't mean the city's residents should expect a massive rollout of the buses anytime soon.

April 7 - St. Louis Post-Dispatch

San Diego provides a case study for how bus rapid transit sometimes fails to meet the standards befitting its name.

April 7 - Voice of San Diego

Despite its plaint and utilitarian exterior, Astorians knew they had something special in a former military building containing a large open interior free of support columns space with a domed lamella ceiling. Now, it's a center of the community.

April 7 - UrbDeZine

By summer, the empty and derelict land beneath the Southeast Expressway in Boston's South End will become and active, art-filled park.

April 7 - The Boston Globe

A new graphic novel has magic to stir blood.

April 7 - CityLab

There are lots of arguments available for people that want to oppose new housing projects, but what are a few guiding principles for framing a supportive and constructive housing conversation?

April 7 - Sightline Institute

Where aging infrastructure is concerned, most of us don't immediately think of old dams. But there are a lot of them. Environmental advocates want to see them go, and in recent years de-damming has picked up speed.

April 7 - Next City

The Center for Urban Pedagogy's latest tool provides an easy and fun way to explain a difficult but critical concept: floor area ratio.

April 7 - The Architect's Newspaper

John Metcalfe introduces the world to Jimmy, the transit riding jerk who will probably seem all-too familiar.

April 7 - CityLab

Backers hoped a soccer stadium would ease the pain of losing the St. Louis Rams to Los Angeles in 2016. Now St. Louis sports fans will have to go back to the drawing board.

April 6 - St. Louis Riverfront Times

Seattle's King County is home to an estimated 10,000 unsheltered homeless people. Local officials are trying to figure out how to raise the funds to address the crisis.

April 6 - KUOW

As ridership on the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority's Gold Line light rail line continues to grow, duplicative bus lines are suffering.

April 6 - San Gabriel Valley Tribune

Controversy erupted last week in Washington, D.C., after D.C. Metro decided to paint Union Station's vaulted ceilings—a famous icon of the District, it's regional transit system, and the architectural style of Brutalism.

April 6 - WAMU

Slow turn boxes, also known as neckdowns or curb extensions, have been popping up all over New York City as part of an ongoing pilot project.

April 6 - StreetsBlog NYC

Planning and construction for the new Amtrak Gateway tunnels unders the Hudson River and the next phase of the Second Avenue Subway could grind to a halt under President Trump's proposed budget that substantially cuts capital grants programs.

April 6 - The New York Times

A planning consultant hired by FirstEnergy is putting out the first speculative ideas for the future of a contaminated lakefront site of a most demolished power plant.

April 6 - The Cleveland Plain Dealer

Savannah, Georgia is an elegant southern belle of a city. Susan Henderson looks at some of its lessons, along with ideas for future study.

April 6 - PlaceShakers

A revised plan to extend the MBTA's Green Line light rail line into Somerville and Medford required approval from the state (approved last May) and the Federal Transit Authority (approved this week).

April 6 - The Boston Globe

The advent of sprawl coincided with a move toward earlier school start times, prompted by a need to coordinate complicated bussing. If students could walk to school, the problem might disappear.

April 6 - CityLab