The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

An experiment in round-the-clock public bathroom access has proven successful, and San Francisco is expanding the program.

November 28 - San Francisco Chronicle

Two articles raise questions about the state of humanity, as evidenced by the way news organizations and politicians write and talk about the homeless.

November 28 - Streetsblog LA

The new home of the Los Angeles Rams and the Los Angeles Charger is almost ready for prime time. The mayor's economic development dreams are on the line as much as any championship.

November 28 - The Daily Breeze

When going around the Thanksgiving table today, giving thanks for our friends and family to hear, don't forget to mention the environmental, social, and economic benefits of public transit.

November 28 - CityLab

The United Nations announces more bad news for the climate and the role of American society and culture in causing the destruction of the planet.

November 27 - The New York Times

The mayors of Tucson and Phoenix want Congress to block President Donald Trump from removing the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement.

November 27 - Arizona Public Media

The controversy over a tech billionaire blocking access to a Pacific Ocean beach is back from the dead.

November 27 - Bloomberg

MSNBC asks if the Trump administration has accomplished with its Department of Transportation, and whether Americans are better off because of those efforts.

November 27 - MSNBC

Details of the community benefits package promised as part of Amazon's HQ2 development deal with Arlington County, Virginia made news this week.

November 27 - WTOP

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is crowdsourcing information about the regulatory barriers to affordable housing.

November 27 - U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Unlike for land use regulations, state law doesn't require Caltrans to switch from Level of Service to Vehicle Miles Traveled in measuring the environmental impact of projects. The state department of transportation is making the change anyway.

November 27 - Streetsblog California

Randy Essex details why it is that "rely" isn't a word that comes to mind for many Detroiters when they think about downtown's QLINE streetcar system.

November 27 - The Detroit Free Press

MTA reassured disoriented New Yorkers that it's flooding subway entrances on purpose, to test barriers that it hopes will guard the system against another Sandy.

November 27 - Quartz

Philadelphia Inquirer architecture critic Inga Saffron has had enough with the exclusionary planning tactics of the neighborhood of Society Hill to start calling it the "Republic of Society Hill."

November 27 - The Philadelphia Inquirer

FEATURE

The decade wraps up with another engaging crop of highly readable and recommendable books on the subject of urban planning. There's a lot to learn, on many related subjects, among this year's top planning books.

November 26 - Josh Stephens

Staying in place is more and more the norm, even among historically mobile young people.

November 26 - Brookings

Brookings has collected a year of data on an experiment it calls "transformative placemaking," with case studies from up and down the East Coast.

November 26 - Brookings

The District Department of Transportation last week promised to double the pace of its planned construction of protected bike lanes, but advocates say the District still isn't doing enough to provide safe accommodations for people on bikes.

November 26 - The Washington Post

With stronger state mandates kicking in, California housing permits rose sharply in September. But as one construction industry commentator noted, an uptick isn't a trend.

November 26 - The Mercury News

New analysis by Zillow predicts a "Silver Tsunami" of residential properties coming to the market as Baby Boomers leave the housing market. The effect could be like the housing boom of the mid-2000s.

November 26 - Zillow