The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

A report from a coalition of nonprofits recommends, among other restrictions, allowing outdoor watering only twice per week.

May 5 - The Texas Tribune

A survey of recent planning decisions demonstrates that cities are no longer necessarily looking to more and bigger highways to solve their traffic problems.

May 4 - The New York Times

Connecthings, a transit app for the blind, is undergoing a trial that will connect its information to the popular wayfinding App BlindSquare in an Austin trial.

May 4 - Curbed

Sacramento Regional Transit's SmaRT Ride service is an on-demand public option to compete with Uber and Lyft.

May 4 - The Sacramento Bee

Some cities are employing a "modern-day Homestead Act" to attract new residents.

May 4 - The Wall Street Journal

Last year's tax reform bill seriously curtailed the mortgage interest deduction, despite its reputation for untouchability. Perhaps lawmakers should get rid of it entirely.

May 4 - Slate

On May 3, the public could take rides with a new fleet of self-driving cars in Las Vegas.

May 4 - Traffic Technology Today

An article originally posted on Mobility Lab, written by Owain James, looks for lessons from Nashville's failed transit referendum.

May 4 - Mobility Lab

A new report by the New York City Comptroller's Office has estimated the cost of Airbnb to the city's rental market, and the tab is a big one: $616 million in 2016 alone.

May 4 - Bloomberg

Pittsburgh is betting on its own version of New York City's famed elevated park, based on a 500-foot-long raised roadway connecting two warehouses.

May 4 - The Architect's Newspaper

This is the first and only time you will be actively encouraged to get your mind into the gutter.

May 4 - Houston Chronicle

Five decades after the Fair Housing Act, racial inequality is still rampant in American cities. Trulia and the National Fair Housing Alliance collaborated on this report on four of them.

May 3 - Curbed Atlanta

Industry experts project growth for electric buses, which could have big impacts on air quality and emissions in cities around the world.

May 3 - Vox

Ben Brown continues his weekly blog series in lead-up to the day-long exploration at CNU Savannah, "Affordability: The Intersection of Everything."

May 3 - PlaceShakers

Moving an 80,000-pound metal box means using energy, and elevators can account for 2-10% of a buildings energy use.

May 3 - Smithsonian Magazine

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt had announced the rollback of greenhouse gas emission and fuel economy standards on April 2. While the auto industry supports the move, not all auto executives agreed.

May 3 - Los Angeles Times

Bus Rapid Transit along I-405 and SR-522 will b completed by 2024 if plan is approved and built on schedule.

May 3 - Bothell Kenmore Reporter

While tech giants like Google, Facebook, and Apple have approached the Bay Area's housing crisis gingerly the CEO of Yelp has thrown himself into the YIMBY movement. His activism says a lot about the real world and the virtual world.

May 3 - California Planning & Development Report

The ACLU is bringing a lawsuit against SEPTA, saying the transit agency's advertising policy runs afoul of the First Amendment. Some $16 million in annual revenue is at stake.

May 3 - PlanPhilly

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Let's acknowledge that loneliness and depression is common among urban residents, and figure out ways urban planning can foster connections and social interactions between people.

May 3 - Kayla Matthews