The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Advocates at the local and the national level are voicing their concern over a proposal by the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department to widen the I-30 freeway in Downtown Little Rock.

November 3 - Streetsblog USA

Seattle political leadership recently announced an ambitious plan to build more sidewalks with less money.

November 3 - The Urbanist

TV weather reporters should be educators of the public about climate change. Yet they range from being outright deniers to keeping silent about this cataclysmic threat to life on Earth. An examination of why and what can be done about it.

November 3 - UrbDeZine

The 'Vision Zero' movement to eliminate pedestrian deaths is fantastic. It is helping cities around the world create better, safer streets. The name and its embrace of absolutes dooms cities to failure.

November 3 - California Planning & Development Report

In an interview with Crosstown Concourse's Todd Richardson, Thriving Cities explores the challenges of revitalizing and transforming Memphis' old Sears Roebuck Building.

November 3 - Thriving Cities Blog

Much has been made of New York's current boom in high-rise construction. A new interactive feature by the Council of Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat allows for some historic perspective on the city's penchant for building skyward.

November 3 - CityLab

As a symbol of a changing economy and a changing city, the rails-to-trails conversion of the Manayunk Bridge in Philadelphia bears close scrutiny.

November 3 - Plan Philly

Gas prices are 80 cents a gallon less than a year ago and $1.50 less than April 2014. With this amount of savings, the economy should be improving from all the extra cash in consumers' hands. You'll be surprised where much of the savings is going.

November 3 - Business Insider

The housing crisis that made headlines during the Great Recession is proving far more persistent than the common narrative about over-priced coastal market allows. A new report by the Center for American Progress uncovers the facts on the ground.

November 3 - The Atlantic

FEATURE

An excerpt from the introduction to "Parking Management for Smart Growth," by Richard W. Willson, Ph.D., FAICP. Here Willson argues for parking management strategies as a critical tool for communities to get more out of the space devoted to cars.

November 2 - Richard Willson

Of all the sub-topics in urban planning and design, the ones likely to generate the most anxiety are those where land use planning intersects with economic development. Ben Brown ruminates.

November 2 - PlaceShakers

Residents of metropolitan Atlanta showed signs of a strengthening economy, a fast growing region, and, perhaps surprisingly, strong support for public transit.

November 2 - Atlanta Business Chronicle

The seventh round of TIGER funding was announced last week. Louisville provides a case study of how cities engage with the competitive grant process.

November 2 - U.S. Department Of Transportation

In tomorrow's citywide election, San Francisco voters are faced with a suite of ballot propositions essentially offering a referendum on hot button issues like gentrification, neighborhood character, and supply vs. demand.

November 2 - The New York Times

Biking and walking are often assumed as two peas in a pod, when in fact it might be more helpful to think of them as apples and oranges.

November 2 - Bike Portland

The Bay Area is one of the few metro regions in the U.S. with a separate MPO and COG, but that could change after voting members of both the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and the Association of Bay Area Governments agreed to a merger study.

November 2 - Contra Costa Times

Shell Oil surprised the environmental community in September by announcing an end to Arctic drilling. What could come next? Shell is abandoning plans for the Carmon Creek oil-sands project in Alberta and taking a $2 billion write-down.

November 2 - Bloomberg News

This week, voters in Philadelphia will decide on a ballot measure that could realign city government to create a new Department of Planning and Development.

November 2 - PlanPhilly

Big investments in residential building in New York City indicate the strength of the city's economy, according to an article in Crain's New York Business.

November 2 - Crain's Business New York

BLOG POST

There are a number of areas of planning that offer planners a role, but are not necessarily at the front of our minds. At the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Conference, researchers shared results that can impact practice.

November 1 - Jennifer Evans-Cowley