The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

A city once infamous for municipal bankruptcy is now setting a standard for public transit technology.

August 26 - Capital Public Radio

The westbound 3.1-mile span from Tarrytown across the Hudson River to South Nyack in Rockland County stands adjacent to the 62-year-old Tappan Zee Bridge that will be dismantled next year. The new $3.9 billion bridge was built on-time and on-budget.

August 26 - CBS This Morning

A recent study lends new specificity of the human cost and economic damage wreaked by climate change in the coming decades.

August 26 - Governing

The lesson is simple: don't widen freeways if you want to reduce congestion and auto-dependence.

August 26 - City Observatory

Hurricane Harvey was expected to make landfall late Friday or early Saturday. If the damage in human and economic terms is terrible, a lack of infrastructure maintenance and development responsibility will be to blame.

August 26 - CityLab

Though the federal government approved the plan for toll lanes, called managed lanes in Illinois, the state lacks the funding to implement the idea. Two toll lane proposals are currently in limbo.

August 25 - CBS Chicago

When the Houston Metro debuted they had planned to keep parts of the route open to cars. After recent crashes that might change.

August 25 - Houston Chronicle

Cities that are serious about transportation goals need to think seriously about supporting families who choose to live low car lifestyles.

August 25 - American City & County

The New York Times explores the Bay Area housing crisis through one woman’s three-hour commute.

August 25 - New York Times

UBC's Patrick Condon argues that for Vancouver and cities like it, simply adding supply at any level doesn't get at the root causes of the global affordable housing crisis.

August 25 - The Planning Report

Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART) train is set to start service Friday, running between Sonoma and Marin Counties in the Bay Area. Future extensions are planned that to take it to Larkspur for ferry service to San Francisco.

August 25 - SF Gate

In the aftermath of the violence in Charlottesville, resulting from the gathering of white supremacists and neo-Nazis, American cities are rethinking whether statues honoring the heroes of the Confederacy belong in public spaces.

August 25 - Vox

After a long time lost in the woods, architects and engineers are rediscovering timber. Recent fire tests have demonstrated that timber can be a viable building material and meet existing code requirements.

August 25 - Doggerel

Finally, we know where Internet trolls come from—no, not the basements of parents' houses.

August 25 - Wired

Guinness World Records is on the line.

August 25 - NECN

What we now so far about the Interior Department's plans to shrink a "handful" of national monuments around the country.

August 24 - AP for the Oregonian

Elon Musk will get a first chance to prove predictions that the Boring Company can improve tunneling technology after the city of Hawthorne in Los Angeles County approved his plan to build a two-mile tunnel.

August 24 - Daily Breeze

AVs are more than a transportation issue and will have significant impacts on real estate. Expect AVs to affect parking, sprawl, housing prices, and transit.

August 24 - Urbanism Next Blog - Sustainable Cities Initiative

Many cities require the owners of multistory buildings to regularly inspect their façades, looking for problems that may lead to injury or property damage. Drones can potentially help ease the process and cost of doing so.

August 24 - Doggerel

A new economics report from Beacon Economics for Next 10 shows that what good for the environment is good for the state's economy, but the results are marred by increasing vehicle-miles-traveled. The state's housing crisis is partly to blame.

August 24 - Business Wire