The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

After passing both houses of state government, a "free range kids" law to allow children to walk to school and play outside unsupervised is headed to the governor's office in Utah.

March 3 - USA Today

The state Legislative Analyst's Office looks at California's out-migration data. Every year since 1990, more Californians left for other than states than arrive. Which states are sending their residents here, and where are Californians fleeing to?

March 3 - California Legislative Analyst's Office

Zagster partners with the Florida Department of Transportation for suburban bike share.

March 3 - Modern Cities

The scale of the housing recovery effort means some jobs normally handles by FEMA have fallen to the Texas General Land Office.

March 3 - Texas Tribune

The Sri Lankan tourist destinations of Ella and Galle are microcosms of urban trends worldwide: one is a boomtown and the other is a boutique city.

March 3 - Common Edge Collaborative

Here's a concept we can get behind.

March 2 - The Fresno Bee

Jefferson County, Colorado, an outdoor recreation paradise located between Denver and the Front Range, will begin allowing electric-assist bikes (e-bikes) on its trails.

March 2 - The Denver Post

Climate change and coastal development are combining to stamp out important ecological landscapes.

March 2 - KPCC

Good IT is critical to good customer service, as anyone who has ever worked a counter in knows.

March 2 - Smart Cities Plan

An op-ed raises a damaging point to counter the California-style progressivism that opposes new housing development: "local control is actually bedrock conservatism."

March 2 - East Bay Express

A small grant with big meaning for the city of Chamblee.

March 2 - Curbed Atlanta

Jon Christensen urges Los Angeles to ensure that new park amenities serve, rather than displace, the river's low-income communities.

March 2 - CityLab

Unlike banning sales of new internal combustion vehicles at a future date, the German court ruling applies to the operation of older, diesel-powered cars in the country's most polluted cities. It's up to the cities, though, to enact the bans.

March 2 - The New York Times

In an unsettling distillation of the broader housing market, the lot's price rose by $2.3 million in under two years.

March 2 - Sacramento Bee

It's a free online video game, in retro 8-bit style. What could go wrong?

March 2 - Bloomberg

In places like San Jose, "new approaches to the storefront" are paying dividends for physical retailers willing to experiment.

March 1 - SPUR

A flurry of air rights purchases have already begun as large property owners take advantage of Midtown East's upzoning. Some big names include JPMorgan Chase and the Archdiocese of New York.

March 1 - Crain's New York Business

Taking cues from the Trump Administration's recently-released infrastructure plan, the government intends to use a public-private partnership model to take on social challenges.

March 1 - CityLab

Allison Arieff finds fault with the nation's uninspired conversation on infrastructure. When urban design projects have more emotional appeal, she argues, they can unify rather than divide.

March 1 - The New York Times

The state of Oregon is already tinkering with a bike tax it approved last year.

March 1 - Bike Portland