The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Is Airbnb a prime target for regulation, or is it just another way to expand the marketplace for bedrooms? Dan Bertolet urges caution. After all, couldn't less Airbnb just mean more hotels?

July 11 - Sightline Institute

Americans have shown a clear preference for larger homes—even at the expense of the coveted backyard.

July 11 - The Boston Globe

Gas prices are down and sales are up, and greenhouse gas emissions from transportation, the largest source of the state's emissions, are up, even though overall they dipped. In addition to increased driving, sales of EVs and hybrids dropped.

July 11 - San Francisco Chronicle

The 13 suburban cities of Fulton County agreed to a roads-only, .75-cent sales tax measure that needs to be approved by the county, while Atlanta voters will decide on a MARTA-only .50-cent sales tax. MARTA serves eight of the cities.

July 11 - Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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The transportation policy debate regularly falls victim to incorrect or incomplete "facts" getting passed around like the game of telephone.

July 11 - Steven Polzin

Montreal will include one less elevated highway—so long Bonaventure Expressway.

July 10 - Montreal Gazette

Seismologists were recently upset by the loss of a curb at the corner of two streets in Hayward, California that displayed the power of the Hayward Fault. The city had repaired the curb to provide ADA access to the sidewalk and street.

July 10 - Los Angeles Times

If the proposed parking minimums had been in place over the past eight years, one-fifth of new development in the area would have been impossible, according to analysis reported by Bike Portland.

July 10 - Bike Portland

Bike advocates have Copenhagen to provide a real-world case study of a multi-modal vision of the future. It's time bus advocates had their own exemplar.

July 10 - City Observatory

With less than 60,000 residents, Hamburg, New York might fly under the housing policy radar, but the small town is the first in Western New York to approve inclusionary zoning. Buffalo could be next.

July 10 - The Buffalo News

Vox publishes an article debunking tiny houses as the housing silver bullet some hope they will become.

July 9 - Vox

Another high-profile example of the "bouncy house urbanism" popping up around the United States.

July 9 - Miami Herald

Development proposals in one of the least affluent communities in the Silicon Valley have repeatedly been scuttled due to a lack of water. Wealthier communities have more than enough.

July 9 - Palo Alto Weekly

Few cities in recent years have broadcast as many headlining transit investments as Denver. The renovation of a station handling 15,000 passengers a day is the latest.

July 9 - The Denver Post

A May 7 crash of a Model S Tesla in Florida may have outsized implications for the future of driverless technology. The details of the single-fatality crash were made public in a June 30 blog by Tesla though they were reported immediately to NHTSA.

July 9 - Planetizen

Things have gone terribly wrong at Mississippi's Kemper County energy facility, a federally supported, $6.7 billion carbon capture and storage coal power plant that is now two years behind schedule and $4 billion over budget.

July 8 - The New York Times

Miss the Congress for the New Urbanism in Detroit? Hazel Borys shares some highlights, with help from Twitter urbanists.

July 8 - PlaceShakers

Fort Worth residents will soon have a direct rail connection to the airport, similar to the one currently enjoyed by Dallas residents.

July 8 - Railway Gazette

In Washington D.C., Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, and Alabama, the legal policy known as contributory negligence blocks cyclists from claiming damages if they're involved in a crash.

July 8 - CityLab

Some cities that want to grow are stuck in the small town zone, while others growing cities would prefer to stay small.

July 8 - Community Development Strategies