The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

With an earthquake due to shake up the Pacific Northwest in the not so distant future, Portland has provided an online map to identify potentially vulnerable buildings in danger of suffering major damage when the big one hits.

May 19 - The Oregonian

It might not come as a surprise, but the Sun Belt cities permitting fewer new single-family homes are the Sun Belt cities permitting fewer new homes.

May 19 - The Urban Edge

The Platte to Park Hill project would install new stormwater detention facilities at a golf course near Downtown Denver. Opponents to the project say it’s a burden on the neighborhood and a benefit to development interests farther down the watershed.

May 19 - The Denver Post

Toronto planners have proposed a new ten-year bike plan that focuses on connecting and improving the city's current network of bike infrastructure.

May 19 - The Toronto Star

Federal regulators approved a pipeline critical to a natural gas power plant currently embroiled in a federal corruption investigation.

May 19 - Politico New York

A new map quantifies the stress levels for bike riders on the streets of Montgomery County, Maryland.

May 19 - CityLab

With the controversy about the value of its newly opened streetcar ongoing, Washington, D.C. has commenced with a planning process for extending the line to Georgetown.

May 18 - Greater Greater Washington

The cities of Oakdale and Lake Elmo made their opposition to a proposed busway connecting to St. Paul known by withdrawing their support for the project. Now Gold Line transit planners are refocusing their efforts on station location decisions.

May 18 - Star Tribune

A large development in San Francisco would limit parking spaces by paying for its tenants to go car free. Uber is paying part of the bill.

May 18 - The Verge

The nation's transportation safety board determined that a distracted engineer caused one of the worst crashes in Amtrak's history, killing eight and injuring over 180 people just north of Philadelphia.

May 18 - RT&S (Railway Track & Structures)

Rebuilding after a major disaster offers a unique opportunity for a community to step back and ask how it wants to build.

May 18 - Treehugger

The Chicago neighborhood of Bridgeport provides a case study of the collision between neighborhood advocacy, politics, and transit planning.

May 18 - DNAinfo Chicago

Rather than devoting more funds for affordable housing, California Governor Jerry Brown is supporting streamlined regulations, mandated by the state and enacted at the local level .

May 18 - Los Angeles Times

Introducing a group of 16 avatars meant to represent the people who live, work, and play in downtown Toronto.

May 18 - Toronto

For governments and institutions, creative placemaking means knowing when to let go. Scott Doyon explains.

May 18 - PlaceShakers

While the methane reduction targets are the same as the draft rule released last August (i.e., 40-45 percent reduction of 2012 levels by 2025), the new rule removes exceptions, resulting in a 30 percent improvement in reductions of methane.

May 18 - The Hill

It's not a popular viewpoint, but what if suburbs end up being more critical to a sustainable and efficient future than dense urban areas?

May 17 - Smithsonian Magazine

A bus fare doesn't exist in a vacuum. To understand the true cost of a transit ride, one report compared bus fares to the local minimum wage, revealing Atlanta, Dallas, and Salt Lake City to have the highest fares.

May 17 - Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Houston's Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern, commissioned in 1926 and decommissioned in 2007, is now the city's hottest attraction.

May 17 - Houston Chronicle

A San Francisco startup will allow landlords to auction long-term rental leases to competing bidders online.

May 17 - SF Gate