The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Though he’s opened land all over the U.S. to industry, the Interior Secretary is actually pushing to conserve even more of his home state.

April 24 - The New York Times

Even before the bill was defeated, it exposed a major generational divide between anti-development environmentalists and their pro-density, pro-housing heirs.

April 23 - San Francisco Magazine

If you're a fan of improved bus service, we have some good news from New York City.

April 23 - StreetsBlog NYC

Battles for inclusion and exclusion in the life of the city more often end in stand-offs than in skirmishes.

April 23 - Urban Omnibus

AB 2923, which would allow the Bay Area Rapid Transit District to rezone their properties near stations for transit-oriented development, passed its first committee. The California chapter of APA objects to the preemption of local land use authority.

April 23 - California Chapter of American Planning Association

Starting June 27, cars will no longer be allowed to drive through Central Park.

April 23 - AM New York

Leonia, New Jersey made it illegal for non-residents to drive on 60 public roads in an effort to stop Waze users from cutting through their community.

April 23 - CityLab

Allowing bikes on sidewalks pits cyclists against pedestrians, an advocate argues.

April 23 - Crosscut

More than a quarter of renter households in the United States earn 30 percent or less of area median income. And no state in the country can house them.

April 23 - The Washington Post

Not only does the plan promise more affordable housing, it’s also supposed to deliver “access to more upwardly mobile communities."

April 23 - Next City

Ordinary homeowners are beginning to factor climate change into the home-buying decisions in Miami.

April 23 - The Wall Street Journal

They call it a "Safety Stop" in Colorado, but it's the same idea.

April 22 - Streetsblog Denver

The Let's Move Nashville plan would spend $9 billion (including $5.4 billion for capital costs) to build a new transit network in the quickly growing city of Nashville. Voters will decide if the plan is worth the cost.

April 22 - Tennessean

Single-family rentals are the fastest growing segment of the U.S. housing market—and they're not going away anytime soon, a new study suggests.

April 22 - Terner Center for Housing Innovation

"Canada looks a lot like much of the US, in terms of economic types, city sizes and ages, development patterns," Jarret Walker says. So why can't Americans keep pace with Canadian public transit?

April 22 - Human Transit

More than half of American tenants are rent-burdened, putting them at risk of displacement. A national collaboration with PolicyLink hopes to help.

April 22 - Curbed

A case study emerging from the Brookings Institution’s Community of Practice on Regional Housing Solutions.

April 21 - Brookings

Coach houses could provide affordable housing and revenue for home owners if they were more widely permitted in the city.

April 21 - Chicago Cityscape

The Balboa Reservoir is the perfect spot for housing in San Francisco, Nicole Lindler argues, and the notion that it should remain a surface parking lot shows badly disordered priorities.

April 21 - San Francisco Chronicle

Seattle officials invited to Nashville to share insights from public transit success, as Davidson County mulls "Let's Move Nashville."

April 21 - USA Today