The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

A compendium of big box dissent.

May 9 - Strong Towns

Private bikeshare companies have rolled out large fleets of bikes in cities around the world and United States, but despite their ubiquity, dockless bikeshare is actually much less popular than traditional bikeshare.

May 9 - Governing

The biggest state in the union is making room for self-driving cars, starting with four self-driving vans.

May 8 - Quartz

NYC Ferry, which opened in May 2017, would double in size if Mayor Bill de Blasio's budget proposal moves forward.

May 8 - Crain's New York Business

Changes to the Mortgage Interest Deduction ostensibly made the housing subsidy more progressive. The real consequences of the change, however, make the deduction "significantly more inequitable that it was in years past."

May 8 - Greater Greater Washington

Some lucky people could be flying over traffic in autonomous drones within two years, according to a media blitz this morning.

May 8 - CBS This Morning

Instead of focusing on the potential of new forms of for-hire personal transportation to level the mobility playing field, every article about scooters and dockless bikeshare seems to go something like this: "Deadly Scooter Craze Scoots On."

May 8 - Recode

Interested observers have been sounding the alarms about the federal government's readiness and commitment level for the 2020 Census.

May 8 - Vox

There are a lot of players in the autonomous vehicle game. It can be hard to keep track of which company is fighting for which share of the market, and which companies are out in front in the race to dominate the emerging industry.

May 8 - Bloomberg

Not every Legacy City has the size and cultural cache of a Pittsburgh or a New Orleans to aid in its recovery, but there are resources available for smaller cities examining pragmatic revitalization strategies.

May 8 - Greater Ohio Policy Center

Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan and Planning Director Maurice Cox announced a major new funding initiative to support the city's Strategic Neighborhood Fund. Funding will support projects in seven target neighborhoods.

May 8 - The Detroit Free Press

Housing Advocates have filed a lawsuit to press the Department of Housing and Urban Development to enforce requirements of the Fair Housing Act.

May 8 - The Washington Post

Ninety percent of respondents to a recent survey overestimated the time it would take to walk or bike to work, and those with parking permits were the worst at guessing their commute times.

May 7 - The New York Times

Jobs and cheap housing give some small cities a big appeal for folks in their 20s and 30s.

May 7 - Curbed

A prominent conservative with an infamous name is promoting single-family home development in the Toronto greenbelt as a way to release pressure on the Toronto housing market.

May 7 - Toronto Sun

The track record of the public sector keeping up with mobility innovations varies by geography and level of governance. According to this article, it's imperative that the public sector keeps up with the pace of private sector innovation.

May 7 - SPUR

Ride hailing seems to be here to stay, but if New York's mayor gets his way it will face a major speed bump in the Big Apple.

May 7 - Next City

In Seattle, most (88 percent) of the city's new housing is being developed in a few small, already dense areas around the city. Most of the city is reserved for single-family housing.

May 7 - The Seattle Times

The Golden State may have the nation's most severe housing crisis, but there is one area of state housing policy where it shines, becoming a model for other states that want to advance accessory dwelling units, also called granny or in-law units.

May 7 - Next City

“Why are lighting designers and experts nearly unified in their belief that outdoor lighting in past years has been excessive?”

May 7 - Metropolis Magazine