The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Rather than focusing only on which streets are most dangerous, Boston officials asked which neighborhoods wanted safety improvements to slow traffic, 45 different communities around the city said they did.

August 22 - Next City

A 35-year-old law is not living up to its moniker, the 'anti-NIMBY law'. A bill co-sponsored by a group associated with the YIMBY movement would fine cities $10,000 per housing unit if they fail to comply with the law.

August 22 - The Mercury News

Parting shots from the Great American Eclipse.

August 22 - The Oregonian

A draft of the Downtown Atlanta Master Plan will be made public on September 13, 2017. The plan focuses on revitalizing the city's urban core.

August 22 - Atlanta Intown

A key committee of the Metropolitan Planning Organization for Shreveport, Louisiana approved a new highway through the neighborhood of Allendale, a historic but struggling neighborhood adjacent to downtown.

August 22 - Shreveport Times

BLOG POST

The Confederate monuments debate invites a broader interdisciplinary conversation about the nature and planning of public commemorative landscapes and, by extension, the identity and soul of a community.

August 21 - Dean Saitta

A new study details the locations where homeowners are likely to be "equity rich" or underwater. Homeowners in western states are more likely to be equity rich, but many homeowners are still recovering from the Great Recession.

August 21 - Globe St

The infrastructure to support a future of connected cars and automated vehicles is one step closer to reality.

August 21 - Government Technology

Saudi Arabia's government has made huge investments in the hopes of building new cities and districts to attract investment and tourism, despite past failures.

August 21 - Bloomberg

SB 35 (Wiener) and AB 199 (Chu) make it more costly to build housing by requiring prevailing wages where applicable, pleasing construction unions but making affordable housing less affordable, opines CALmatters political columnist, Dan Walters.

August 21 - CALmatters

There will be important functions in public space that are not always “art” whose value is not in proportion to their prettiness.

August 21 - Shelterforce/Rooflines

A 33-year GIS professional lets loose his geospatial and population analysis skills on the occasion of a lifetime: today's "Great American Eclipse."

August 21 - Great American Eclipse

Because of the coal power it displaces, solar and wind energy generated in the Mid-Atlantic, and Upper Midwest has an outsized impact.

August 21 - Vox

Streetsblog USA ponders whether President Trump's $1 trillion big-ticket legislative item was dead before arrival.

August 21 - Streetsblog USA

FEATURE

The world has changed since Planetizen crowdsourced its "Top Urban Thinkers" in 2009. Which urban planners, designers, doers, and dreamers do you think have had the most influence on the world?

August 21 - Planetizen

Public notice signs rarely garner much attention. Atlanta's planning department is changing that by partnering with a private design firm. The result? More striking signage.

August 20 - Fast Co. Design

The Orange Line, a bus rapid transit line running through Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley, has been a success. To those calling for an expensive conversion to rail, several experts say, why bother?

August 20 - Curbed Los Angeles

Three tractor trailers overturned in less than a month while navigating Spaghetti Junction in Louisville—the maze of twisting ramps and interchanges that sparked viral notoriety at the end of 2016.

August 20 - WDRB

This documentary complicates what can seem like a stark partisan divide on the environment, highlighting the many heartland residents who do conservation work.

August 20 - Pacific Standard

Community engagement is a powerful tool to guide investments toward the places we inhabit.

August 20 - PlanIt - Metropolitan Council