The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

The Urban Accessibility Explorer is an easy-to-use mapping system that measures the number of activities that can be reached by residents of specified neighborhoods within a given amount of travel time, by a particular mode and time of day.

July 15 - Metropolitan Chicago Accessibility Explorer

A Denver Post op-ed critiques the arguments employed to make the case for density in Denver.

July 15 - The Denver Post

BLOG POST

A retrospective of a billboard art exhibition at the 2013 Biennial of the Americas on the occasion of the 2015 Biennial's kick-off implicates an excellent model of citizen engagement and possibly some lessons for civic leaders and urban planners.

July 15 - Dean Saitta

Communities in West Virginia are organizing and working to fill their needs for healthy, fresh food as grocery stores in the region close.

July 15 - WV Public Broadcasting

FEATURE

An op-ed describing the public health benefits of CEQA reform and urging California's leaders to finalize the end of "Level of Service" as a measure of project impacts.

July 14 - Benjamin D. Winig

Recent controversies have inspired county and city officials in Miami-Dade County looking to overhaul the process by which transportation projects are planned, approved, and funded.

July 14 - Miami Herald

BLOG POST

One common argument against allowing new housing in popular cities is that as long as rich foreigners use up the housing supply prices will never go down.

July 14 - Michael Lewyn

Seattle returns to zoning as a tool to promote the construction of affordable housing.

July 14 - CityLab

A new report puts natural gas ahead of coal in the U.S. energy production portfolio.

July 14 - Associated Press via Chicago Tribune

The San Francisco Chronicle published a large, magazine-style feature detailing the impacts of Airbnb on the city's housing market.

July 14 - San Francisco Chronicle

As parking reform takes to multi-family housing, the detached single family home has largely escaped discussion. Should it? Seattle (of course) is taking the lead. Also, is all of Minneapolis ready to eliminate parking minimums along transit lines?

July 14 - Streetsblog Network

BLOG POST

Imagine on your phone being able to wake up and with a simple click be able to arrange all of your transportation needs for the day. Soon your bus pass, carsharing pass, bikesharing pass, and your personal vehicle will go away—replaced by an app.

July 14 - Jennifer Evans-Cowley

The 1.5-mile, $37 million segment of Charlotte's controversial new LYNX Gold streetcar line is set to open July 14. A former mayor, Anthony Foxx, is now the U.S. Transportation Secretary. A federal grant is paying 68 percent of construction costs.

July 14 - The Charlotte Observer

The country as a whole is getting older—though some counties are aging faster than others.

July 14 - Pew Research Center

Existing grey infrastructure in China cannot cope with rapid urban expansion and frequent droughts and floods. Several cities, with Beijing's approval, are experimenting with rainwater capture methods as an alternative.

July 13 - Environment & Energy Publishing (E&E)

A little history on the Inuit of the Circumpolar Region as the kickoff in a blog series by Hazel Borys

July 13 - PlaceShakers

The basics of South Carolina Rep. Tom Rice's "Highway Trust Fund Certainty Act": Increase federal gas and diesel taxes by 10.1 cents in one year, index to inflation, and issue an income tax credit for $133.

July 13 - The Hill

Plans to construct a prestigious express line to O'Hare airport may be overkill. The existing Blue Line, which could benefit from some investment, already connects downtown Chicago and the airport.

July 13 - Chi.Streetsblog

Fast rates of growth in North Texas have produced the demand necessary to drive fast rates of construction for retail.

July 13 - The Dallas Morning News

The long-delayed D.C. Streetcar got some very bad news last week, when a panel of industry experts found evidence of construction mistakes that will severely impact the system's reliability.

July 13 - The Washington Post