The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

The Portland City Council has approved Oregon Metro's Southwest Corridor plan.

November 5 - The Oregonian

Faced growing housing costs and limited funding and resources for struggling homeowners and renters, the city of Austin has ramped up efforts to identify and lobby for housing policy changes.

November 5 - Next City

A Walmart store in Rogers, Arkansas will be a testing ground for a new planning concept in the works at the massive retailer.

November 5 - Talk Business & Politics

The city recently received a grant that will help it grow its bike-share network, particularly into areas that have been underserved.

November 4 - WTTW

The rapidly gentrifying neighborhood of Point Breeze could get a new zoning map if recently proposed legislation is approved.

November 4 - PlanPhilly

King County Metro and Sound Transit have proposed major changes to bus service on the eastside of Seattle, stretching into suburban communities outside of the city as well.

November 4 - The Urbanist

Unlike energy issues that will appear in the form of ballot initiatives on Tuesday in three western states, voters in New Mexico will cast their energy vote in their choice for state land commissioner, an arcane position with considerable authority.

November 4 - NPR

Behavioral science is informing the city’s efforts to change the way people commute.

November 4 - CityLab

The move comes almost eight months after a self-driving Uber vehicle struck and killed a pedestrian.

November 3 - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Seattle has added 2,550 hotel rooms since the beginning of 2017, with another 3,000 on the way by 2021.

November 3 - The Seattle Times

It might take a new administration for climate change to be of concern to the federal government again.

November 3 - The Guardian

Wisconsin taxpayer will be paying the bill for the deal to bring Foxconn to Racine "for decades, if not generations, to come."

November 3 - The Verge

A Greyhound bus driver, like his father before him, wrote a song about his last time driving the bus he loves in Western Canada.

November 3 - CBC News: The National (Via YouTube)

The Hop will deliver new transit service on the east side of downtown Milwaukee. The Hop comes also serves big development expectations from local officials.

November 2 - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

All the French Prairie Bridge plan needs is a final design. Eventually this car-free bridge will provide a key link in a 1,000-mile network of paths and trails.

November 2 - BikePortland

A new report from CBRE identifies the extent of the tech industry's expanding footprint in the United States, and where it might be headed next.

November 2 - CBRE

New offshore windmills are taller and bigger than their predecessors, and they will produce more power.

November 2 - Vox

Plaintiffs suing the state of California over a 2016 law that allowed the High-Speed Rail Authority to tap a $9.9 billion bond measure, passed by voters a decade ago to pay for construction on "usable segments," came up short for the second time.

November 2 - The Sacramento Bee

City and county officials have already appealed a decision that would require them to release the details of a proposal designed to entice Amazon into locating its second headquarters in Pittsburgh.

November 2 - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Modern zoning practices separated uses, claiming this was a better way to organize American cities. However, the social, cultural, and urban design outcomes drastically changed the world we live in.

November 2 - Greater Greater Washington