The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

The Tax Foundation endeavors to provide a simple explanation of road funding.

July 16 - Tax Foundation

A more nuanced understanding of suburban poverty is available from an examination of the Denver region.

July 15 - The Denver Post

The rubber meets the road, or not.

July 15 - Austin Monitor

Sea level rise is already flooding communities with such regularity that many residents are deciding to leave. The sea level rise tipping point will expand its reach as the climate changes.

July 15 - San Francisco Chronicle

A new report is potentially a first step in a larger project to revamp Chicago's Pedway—an under-appreciated network of tunnels in downtown Chicago.

July 15 - Chicago Tribune

New bike lanes in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bushwick started raising property values within a year.

July 15 - DNA Info

With so many houses oriented to the privacy of backyards, one street in St. Louis has redefined neighborly by orienting their sitting and relaxation areas to the front yard.

July 14 - StarTribune

The first report from independent think tank RethinkXL predicts that by 2031, 95 percent of U.S. passenger miles traveled will be served by on-demand, autonomous electric vehicles owned by companies providing transport as a service.

July 14 - San Francisco Chronicle

A new report details the work Chicago's suburbs will have to do to live up to the bike-friendly example of its urban core.

July 14 - Chicago Tribune

The difference in lives saved between tsunamis that hit Crescent City, California in 1964 and 2011 was an early detection and warning system. Now it's up to Congress to save the $12 million system from the proposed cuts in Trump's budget.

July 14 - Los Angeles Times

The potential of Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data to redefine mapping and modeling will be on display in the city of Dublin, Ireland, after NYU researchers released the largest ever LiDAR data set.

July 14 - TechCrunch

A piece of Chicago development history as disappearing, as well as some of the city's uniquely urban density, as developers convert four-plus-ones into single-family homes.

July 14 - Crain's Chicago Business

Researchers at MIT and Harvard believe that their computer vision system (i.e., artificial intelligence) helps reveal fundamental characteristics of neighborhood change.

July 14 - MIT News

A Cleveland architect offers a scathing critique of the design choices made by one of the city's cultural institutions.

July 14 - Crain's Cleveland Business

Open data that no one knows how to use is hardly open at all. A new platform from Esri aims to improve the situation.

July 14 - CityLab

Clean and safe from rats.

July 14 - Smart Cities Dive

While premature to claim victory, a report from the San Francisco Chronicle suggests that the California Air Resources Board will prevail in a looming showdown with the U.S. EPA over whether to allow the state to set vehicle emission standards.

July 13 - San Francisco Chronicle

Here's a reason to doubt telecommuting as a silver bullet for congestion in growing regions: most people don't have the option.

July 13 - Quartz

Emory University wants the city of Atlanta to annex its campus. Transit benefits and more could await.

July 13 - The Wall Street Journal

The Campaign For Responsible UW is hoping to push for additional changes to a finalized version of a master plan for the University of Washington's Seattle campus before the city can approve it.

July 13 - The Urbanist