The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

A small transit agency in Northern California is making ambitious expansion plans.

October 4 - Human Transit

City Parks Alliance, in partnership with Prevention Institute, recently hosted a webinar about park equity and collaboration, focusing on the Los Angeles Countywide Parks Needs Assessment.

October 4 - City Parks Alliance

An upcoming ruling could have a major impact on building and development in California and around the country.

October 4 - San Francisco Chronicle

Learn more about a new book that provides some overdue attention to public governance and administration in small towns and rural communities.

October 4 - Routledge

Building sustainable, equitable cities of the future, must take into account the important and often overlooked tasks performed by informal workers.

October 4 - International Institute for Environment and Development

The city is installing ‘vertical deflection devices’ such as speed tables on some of its most dangerous streets.

October 4 - WHYY

A Salvation Army shelter near the Georgia Aquarium plans to expand its facility to include 437 shelter beds, as well as educational, financial, and other assistance programs for residents.

October 4 - Urbanize Atlanta

Visitors to the iconic shopping street overwhelmingly arrive by walking, transit, or bike. Why are bike and pedestrian infrastructure improvement lagging so far behind another famous NYC street, Broadway?

October 4 - StreetsBlog NYC

Koreatown is one of Los Angeles's densest and most park-poor communities. A privately funded tree planting initiative will bring some much needed greenery and shade to the area.

October 3 - LAist

The document is designed to guide federal investment into community-driven solutions tailored to local conditions and needs.

October 3 - Smart Cities Dive

Why developers should place more emphasis on building homes for aging residents and multigenerational living.

October 3 - Builder Online

Has the profession given in to corporate interests, and is there another way forward?

October 3 - Yes Magazine

The city’s fire department has asked for a moratorium on new traffic circles, installed as a traffic calming mechanism.

October 3 - The Denver Gazette

The new parking policy creates a new, tiered framework for parking requirements and reduces the required number of parking spots near transit.

October 3 - DCist

Best-selling writer, podcaster and comedian Baratunde Thurston travels the country to better understand and explain people's complex relationship with the outdoors in a series on PBS.

October 3 - PBS

A bill currently on Governor Newsom’s desk would replace punitive measures with more equitable and compassionate approaches to fare enforcement.

October 2 - Streetsblog California

The changes, part of the mayor’s Downtown Activation Plan, make way for more residential development in the city’s downtown core.

October 2 - The Urbanist

The pandemic bike boom is petering out, but more Americans are biking than ever before, signaling a need for cities to keep improving bike infrastructure and make roads safer for cyclists.

October 2 - Streetsblog USA

Proposed changes to the city’s preservation ordinance would make two-thirds of the city’s housing stock eligible for preservation.

October 2 - The State Press

A new report highlights the need to go beyond traditional equity metrics to assess how public transit systems are serving the lowest-income and most disadvantaged riders.

October 2 - Mineta Institute