The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

A new study reveals the biases of the public planning process.

August 31 - The Boston Globe

Are housing and housing finance two separate problems? California Assemblymember David Chiu and others in housing discuss how available finance tools could be employed to expand the capital pool for affordable housing projects.

August 31 - The Planning Report

City Beautiful Dave Amos makes the case that everyone—even people who never use transit—would be better off if no one had to pay for public transit.

August 31 - City Beautiful

When it comes to planning for transformative technologies like autonomous vehicles, urban planners – whose job it is to project and prioritize transportation investments – have fallen behind and the consequences could be severe.

August 31 - Wisconsin Autonomous Vehicle Proving Ground

The Fake News website The Onion reports a complete fabrication about Elon Musk and Tesla.

August 31 - The Onion

First proposed in 1999, the Centennial project has been litigated and revised for years. The county's Regional Planning Commission has recommended approval, potentially opening another layer of sprawl at the far reaches of Los Angeles County.

August 30 - Los Angeles Times

If the rent is too damn high, it might still be a good investment.

August 30 - CityLab

A tremendous open space and recreation addition could be on the horizon for residents of Washington, D.C., but there's still work to do in cleaning the Potomac and Anacostia rivers.

August 30 - Greater Greater Washington

A plan to build the nation's longest cable-stayed bridge has been busy clearing benchmarks this summer.

August 30 - Crain's Detroit Business

Express buses in Staten Island started their new routes August 19 with fewer routes and fewer stops and faster travel the MTA hopes.

August 30 - AMNY

Senate Bill 100 by Sen. Kevin de León has one more hurdle to clear before it becomes law. While the state's greatest climate challenge isn't electricity generation, it will be helpful as more motorists turn toward electric vehicles.

August 30 - Los Angeles Times

An inheritance tax benefit, along with Proposition 13, has resulted in lower tax rates passing down through generations and billions of dollars in lost tax revenue.

August 30 - Los Angeles Times

The Phoenix City Council took a very early step in the process of delaying and potentially killing long-term plans for public transit in the city.

August 30 - The Arizona Republic

A plan to get a SEPTA Regional Rail link to Phoenixville in record time has its skeptics, but advocates are convinced they can make it happen.

August 30 - PlanPhilly

The first installment of an easy-to-gather collection of media coverage on electric scooters, the companies who rent them, the cities who regulate them (or not), and the public who loves (or hates) them.

August 30 - Planetizen

A study by David C. Phillips, associate professor of economics at the University of Notre Dame, reveals hiring prejudice against people who would have to commute farther to work, in addition to bias against people with "black sounding" names.

August 29 - Journalist's Resource

The number of gas stations in the city of Seattle has declined significantly, but in surrounding King County, the number is climbing.

August 29 - The Stanger

A groundbreaking ceremony for Atwater Beach on Detroit's east waterfront is just one of many ongoing construction projects that will add open space and recreation facilities to formerly industrial areas.

August 29 - Detroit Free Press

Accessible technology and a centralized database and call center will help deliver a one-call, one-click transportation information system for seniors and people with special needs in the Portland region.

August 29 - Bike Portland

With the recent development of IoT, smart meter technology, and advanced weather forecasts by machine learning, we have the ability to analyze usage and load patterns and estimate future needs to help balance the electricity grid.

August 29 - Iot Times