The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

San Diego City Council President Georgette Gomez discusses the critical value of providing accessible and factual information and resources to the city’s diverse constituents during this unprecedented public health crisis.

May 6 - The Planning Report

What would it actually mean to cancel rent?

May 6 - Shelterforce Magazine

Initial research on social isolation as a method to combat contagious disease included a high-school science fair project modeling social networks. Doctors learned that the spread of disease could be decelerated by disrupting these networks.

May 6 - The New York Times

France is proposing a momentous step toward clean transportation.

May 6 - International Railway Journal

A pilot project in Tampa is closing select streets to cars to allow more space for dine-in restaurant service.

May 6 - That's So Tampa

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Fatality Analysis Reporting System released its preliminary estimates this week.

May 6 - National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

Don’t delude yourself. The likelihood that we attend large conferences and trade shows this year in the same way as before is slim to none.

May 5 - Iot Times

Rick Cole identifies the Four Horsemen of the 'Fiscal' Apocalypse: Cratering Revenue, Neglected Infrastructure, Pension Debt, and Community Need, as heralds ushering the reinvention of city services to meet the needs of today’s urban realities.

May 5 - The Planning Report

A draft report from the CDC projects that new cases will grow to 200,000 and deaths to 3,000 – daily, by June 1. The model the White House coronavirus task force uses has increased the projected deaths to nearly 135,000 by early August.

May 5 - The Washington Post

Professionals working in the built and natural environments have been through tough times before. A recent webinar offered a few prominent urban designers a chance to discuss how they coped with the last big economic downturn.

May 5 - CNU Public Square

A massive survey on the sentiments of Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic reports that many people are less likely to ride public transit, or rely on Uber and Lyft, in the future.

May 5 - Car and Driver

Another brutal chapter of the retail apocalypse is underway.

May 5 - The Washington Post

Transportation plans justified with pre-coronavirus data are now obsolete, according to a line of argument recently presented to the Maryland Transportation Authority.

May 5 - Maryland Matters

In the midst of the pandemic, Americans are expressing a new preference for less crowded spaces, according to the results of a Harris Poll conducted last week.

May 5 - Axios

BLOG POST

What can we learn from the COVID-19 pandemic to help plan more resilient communities that can respond to all types of economic, social, and environmental shocks?

May 4 - Todd Litman

The second most populous city in California, San Diego, wants to revolutionize its approach to planning parks and open space.

May 4 - The San Diego Union-Tribune

As a majority of states relax stay-at-home restrictions, a prestigious team of experts from the University of Minnesota, Harvard and Tulane universities warns that the coronavirus will likely last 18 to 24 more months, returning in successive waves.

May 4 - CNN

In the co-investing model, companies are part owners of homes. While this arrangement gives potential homebuyers more options, this isn’t a real solution to the country’s housing affordability crisis.

May 4 - The New York Times

Oakland offers a model for other streets looking to provide new space for pedestrians and people on bikes to get exercise at a space physical distance.

May 4 - StreetsBlog NYC

FEATURE

Online misinformation has been unavoidable, but the Internet is also full of tools essential for understanding the changed world of COVID-19.

May 4 - James Brasuell