The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

The city of Los Angeles is weighing in on a proposal to pump groundwater from the desert near Palm Springs.

August 3 - The Desert Sun

Wildfires tend to start at the Wildland-Urban Interface: those border zones between cities and the open land surrounding them. Keeping the lid on sprawl, it can be argued, would tame the inferno.

August 3 - Wired

Author Scott Allard debunks lingering myths about how people experience poverty in cities. Poverty's suburbanization, he argues, has more to do with the loss of jobs than migration from "inner cities."

August 3 - CityLab

More than one media outlet praised Los Angeles' optimism for cutting a deal with the International Olympics Committee to host the 2028 Olympics.

August 3 - The Guardian

David Yager, an oil industry consultant, writes that recent reports predicting electric vehicles will eventually outsell those with internal combustion engines are vastly exaggerated, notwithstanding national bans on future sales of such cars.

August 3 - Business Insider

The government of Canada is scrambling to build a policy in response to growing numbers of asylum seekers crossing the border between the United States and Canada.

August 3 - The Globe and Mail

Students and faculty at Austin Community College are less inclined to make use of their discounted transit passes. But, why?

August 2 - Austin Monitor

The protest isn't likely to work, but some locals will miss a fast-food joint that they say serves as a democratic oasis in the neighborhood.

August 2 - Chicago Tribune

Portland's TriMet is dealing with technical problems arising from a failed maintenance project and a record-breaking heat wave.

August 2 - The Oregonian

Also, the House of Representatives has approved the funding president trump wants for the wall, but the Senate is likely to balk.

August 2 - Associated Press via Denver Post

The suburban, master planned community of Columbia, Maryland is many of the things urbanists hope their cities will become.

August 2 - The Washington Post

A popular neighborhood in Washington, D.C. is looking for ways to make its main drag more pedestrian friendly.

August 2 - Greater Greater Washington

A power outage that began in North Carolina's Outer Banks on Thursday of last week is expected to continue for three to five more days. Mandatory evacuations have devastated the area during its peak tourism season.

August 2 - The Washington Post

The biggest obstacle to the adoption of electric vehicles in California, a shortage of charging infrastructure, just became a lot more manageable thanks to $200 million from Volkswagen stemming the from the dieselgate settlement.

August 2 - Los Angeles Times

Some are worried about the truck traffic and air pollution likely to follow after a logistics warehouse gets built within visual distance of a San Bernardino school.

August 2 - SCPR

A Chicagoan working at a downtown library noticed her black coworkers all tended to head home to the South Side after work while her white coworkers went north. She asked Chicago's Public Radio station (WBEZ) if the city was becoming more segregated.

August 2 - CNN

FEATURE

An analysis of Planetizen traffic in the first six months of the Trump Administration reveals an audience still focused, despite so many distractions, on the future of communities.

August 1 - James Brasuell

California's San Joaquin Valley has an opportunity to build a treatment facility to bring water from the Kings River to communities in Tulare County, but so far infighting among towns in the county has prevented work from starting on that plant.

August 1 - News Deeply

A Dallas location seemingly destined to become home to a big box store has been rezoned; some see this as a victory for walkability in Dallas.

August 1 - Dallas News

Detroit and Chicago are Rust Belt cities, and citizens need to understand just how different their situations are from the hot property markets of the coasts, Pete Saunders argues.

August 1 - Forbes