The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Mayor Eric Garcetti has nominated Vince Bertoni to lead the Los Angeles Department of City Planning. Bertoni is currently the planning director of the city of Pasadena.

January 5 - Los Angeles Times

A new study reveals new understanding about how restrictive land use regulations in urban areas affect economic segregation across metropolitan areas.

January 5 - CityLab

A public apology wasn't going to cut it for Volkswagen after the car company was revealed to have cheated on emissions testing.

January 5 - U.S. Department of Justice

Three teams will attempt to leave town. Resolution of the contentious political situations could be coming very soon.

January 5 - ESPN

The anti-planning debate may have quieted down, but it hasn't disappeared. Anti-Agenda 21 activists have merely spread out, into the politics of cities and counties planning for the future.

January 5 - Governing

The backlash against the use of red light cameras has legislative backing in the Missouri State legislature.

January 5 - St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Developers and policy makers alike are looking for more certainty when it comes to affordable housing in the city of Dallas.

January 5 - The Dallas Morning News

The changes sweeping New York City include the end of Manhattan's Music Row.

January 5 - The New York Times

A preliminary picture of the new Detroit is coming into focus, while much of the city still struggles with vacancies and blight and downtown anticipates a wave of development and new residents.

January 5 - Detroit Free Press

Land use and transportation planning decisions provide a framework on which other social policies have created particularly isolating and intractable poverty in the South.

January 5 - The Washington Post

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January 4 - Jennifer Evans-Cowley

Federal regulators might have killed a proposal that would have built the tallest skyscraper on the West Coast in the city of Seattle.

January 4 - Puget Sound Business Journal

The Address Downtown hotel, a 63-story, mixed-use high-rise very close to the world's tallest building, went up in flames on Dec. 31, raising questions about other high-rises that use the same heavy cladding material building on the exterior.

January 4 - Reuters

Commuters working in New York City and Washington, D.C. will now enjoy transit tickets and passes purchased using pre-tax income.

January 4 - Planetizen

Traffic deaths dropped by 27 in 2015 to 230, a reduction of over 10 percent from 2014. Pedestrian deaths decreased only slightly. Bicyclists fared better: deaths dropped by 30 percent.

January 4 - The New York Times - N.Y. / Region

A Harvard study has found that those making $45,000 per year are struggling to meet the increasing cost of rent in cities across the country.

January 4 - NBC News

Despite several attempts by Sen. Jim Beall (D-S.J.) and Gov. Jerry Brown, the Republicans have shown no willingness to lend their support to increasing the state gas tax, last raised in 1994, to repair roads and bridges.

January 4 - Capitol Weekly

Thanks to Bustang, an interregional bus service that began July 13, commuters can relax in reclining, high-back chairs or choose to plug their devices into outlets and utilize wifi for the 69-mile trip between Colorado's two largest cities.

January 4 - The Gazette (Colorado Springs)

Call it a wishlist for 2016—here are the words CityLab has had enough of in 2016.

January 4 - CityLab

With the memory of last winter's challenges still fresh, federal investigators gave less than stellar reviews to the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority in a report revealed this week.

January 4 - The Boston Globe