The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

With underground parking spaces costing $37,000 and more to build in Chicago, it might come as a shock that a recent study found much more parking supply than demand around the city's apartment buildings.

March 31 - Chicago Tribune

The Housing Authority of New Orleans has approved a new policy on criminal background checks that will remove the ban on residents with criminal records.

March 31 - The Times-Picayune

A new website and a pair of public meetings kick off the planning process for an East-West bus rapid transit (BRT) route in Milwaukee County.

March 31 - Urban Milwaukee

Just a single day with D.C. Metro was bad, but it's possible the closures were just getting started.

March 31 - The Washington Post

Seattle's beloved Pike Place offers a case study in how careful governance builds the foundation for flourishing places.

March 30 - Brookings

A "TOD Calculator" developed by a Chicago non-profit promises to deliver quantifiable, digestible data on the community impacts of transit-oriented development.

March 30 - Data-Smart City Solutions

Uncertainty as to whether cap-and-trade funding would continue past 2020 and opposition to the initial operating segment leaving out the city of Merced were two issues that arose during a Assembly Transportation Committee hearing of the plan.

March 30 - Fresno Bee

Boston is the latest of a growing number of cities that could end the use of cash to may for transit tickets. The change does not come without some concern for riders.

March 30 - The Boston Globe

The city of Portland is considering an expansion of parking requirements in Northwest Portland, much to the chagrin of advocates who predict the new requirements will make housing more expensive.

March 30 - Bike Portland

Seeking new approaches to a growing homelessness problem, Sacramento officials recently toured the "tent cities" of Seattle.

March 30 - The Planning Report

Los Angeles County's Community Parks and Recreation Plans (CPRPs) are an evolved methodology to process a broad range of data to better site and design community parks. CPRPs are explained by L.A. County park planner Clement Lau

March 30 - UrbDeZine

With the key assumption that more of Philadelphia needs to see the benefits of the recent wave of investment that has come to the city's urban core, politicians at varying levels of government are considering multiple policy options.

March 30 - Philadelphia

618 form-based codes made it on the latest Codes Study. The authors are requesting your additions to the update.

March 30 - PlaceShakers

Residents of suburbs located east of St. Paul in Minnesota have coalesced to oppose the Gateway Corridor Gold Line project, which would connect 12 stops along a bus rapid transit line.

March 29 - Pioneer Press

A new whitepaper outlines solutions for improving the resiliency and sustainability of coastal cities around the world—using Red Hook, Brooklyn as a case study.

March 29 - BASF Corporation

All Planetizen readers should read the full 200-page Bicycling and Walking in the United States: 2016 Benchmarking Report. If you haven't taken the time yet, Hazel Borys shares some of the best bits.

March 29 - PlaceShakers

In the traditional view, nature and digital technology clash. But for many people, tech can offer ways to better engage with parks.

March 29 - KCET

Two articles look at millennials, cities, and the future. "Peak Millennial" refers to the numbers of millennials moving to and from cities. Grist's Ben Adler looks at why urban millennials are moving to suburbs, and what can be done to address it.

March 29 - Grist

Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs is readying a product called Flow to help cities and counties make the most of transportation data. The news is another step along the path to a future version of transportation.

March 29 - The New York Times

Harvard Professor Edward Glaeser argues for the loosening of regulations that create barriers to entry for small businesses and immigrant entrepreneurship in Boston.

March 29 - NewBostonPost