The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Urban planning students at University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill’s Department of City and Regional Planning recently participated in a valuable career–building workshop: the mock interview. Below are tips on how to organize a similar event.

April 17 - North Carolina Chapter of the American Planning Association

Laura Bliss argues that rather than promise to reduce congestion, Los Angeles Metro should embrace its real beneficiaries: non-drivers.

April 16 - CityLab

Los Angeles is moving toward creating a path to amnesty and affordability for habitable, but unpermitted residential units.

April 16 - Los Angeles Times

Colorado Department of Local Affairs releases "Planning for Hazards: Land Use Solutions for Colorado," a guide and website to help Colorado agencies prepare for natural disasters and reduce risks through resilience and hazard mitigation.

April 16 - Colorado DOLA Press Release

Help is on the way. The law that requires the governor's planning office to devise an alternative method for measuring vehicle traffic for environmental compliance will also take up where an earlier law that exempted bike lanes from CEQA left off.

April 16 - Los Angeles Times

Planning for active transportation is the new trend in urban development, according to the Urban Land Institute—and it pays off.

April 16 - The Architects Newspaper

The American Institute of Architects recently announced the winners of the 2016 Housing Awards.

April 15 - The Architect's Newspaper

A one-cent transportation sales tax took a major step forward to being placed on the Broward County November 2016 ballot with the 7-1 approval of the Broward County Commission. It now goes to the Broward County Metropolitan Planning Organization.

April 15 - Sun Sentinel

Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs announced the launch of Sidewalk Talk — a blog and forum for urbanists and technologists to converse and collaborate.

April 15 - Medium

Americans are thinking about undeveloped land alongside and between roadways as a low cost and widely dispersed strategy for carbon sequestration

April 15 - EarthTalk

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Here's hoping these winning ideas for cities are exported around the country.

April 15 - Fast Co.Exist

A Richmond Times-Dispatch article details a pair of projects to add third tracks to Virginia Railway Express stations—one set to complete this month and one just getting ready for construction.

April 15 - Richmond Times-Dispatch

The recent on-field success of the Houston Astros is matched by a wave of building in the neighborhood around their home ballpark. All of that means baseball fans might have a harder time finding a place to park this season.

April 15 - Houston Chronicle

The new Community Partners Program will help Capital Bikeshare respond to concerns about the system's lack of access for low-income and minority residents.

April 15 - DCist

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Community resistance may explain why smaller apartment buildings are hard to build.

April 15 - Michael Lewyn

If you've been waiting for a nice crossover of the Star Wars universe and the planning and urban design universe, here it is.

April 15 - Gizmodo

A Quartz article describes the recent announcement of the Model 3, and the subsequent response by the market, as a "slow-motion disruption of the global auto industry."

April 14 - Quartz

The administrator of the Transportation Security Administration says public transportation systems in the United States are relatively safe from terrorist attack. His reasons for that assessment might surprise.

April 14 - The Washington Post

Some of the nation's new clean energy capacity is being built on land that formerly grew crops. The sun, quite literally, is worth more than peanuts.

April 14 - Bloomberg

Zelda Bronstein makes plenty of points likely to inspire disagreement among planners in this argument calling for a better form of public engagement—one that's substantive and integral, not an afterthought.

April 14 - 48 hills