The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

The Ohio city recently announced a plan to build the nation's largest municipally owned onsite solar array. The plan builds on a decade of increasingly ambitious climate action.

March 27 - Yale Climate Connections

The International Energy Agency found that China and India were responsible for 40 percent of the increased energy demand. The biggest decrease in carbon dioxide emissions came from the U.S., largely due to increased use of renewables.

March 27 - International Energy Agency

FEATURE

The practice of redlining was outlawed in 1977, but its effects have been indelible.

March 27 - Jerrod A. Laber

The Lyft geofencing pilot in San Francisco will direct drivers to less busy side streets for pick ups and drop offs.

March 27 - Mission Local

The state of Texas gives an early indication of the potential scale of the new Opportunity Zones program—an emerging program that will be rolling out across the country in the coming days and weeks.

March 27 - Urban Edge

BLOG POST

Planners must be realistic. Autonomous vehicles will probably provide smaller net benefits, including safety benefits, than optimists predict.

March 27 - Todd Litman

According to a new report, a U.S. "eviction epidemic" is connected to a growing number of homeless people.

March 27 - The Stranger

Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-N.Y.) appears to be backing away from a controversial plan to toll midtown Manhattan but shows no reservations about embracing land value capture, which some regard as a "taking" by taxing land proximate to subway stations.

March 26 - Politico New York

Clear communication and a fair trade let Euclid, Ohio begin to rethink its lakefront—and its future.

March 26 - NextCity

The most recent post-Harvey proposal would mean the city could endure enormous rain events, but so far it's not clear who would pay for it.

March 26 - Houston Chronicle

The city of Minneapolis is deploying many of the most contemporary planning tools as it works toward approval of the Minneapolis 2040 plan.

March 26 - MinnPost

BLOG POST

There is plenty of evidence for modular construction as a key component of a green economy.

March 26 - Kayla Matthews

A study by Zendrive examines how many U.S. drivers can't put down their phones.

March 26 - Bloomberg

Mayors chose these winners based on their potential to benefit local governments and communities.

March 26 - Route Fifty

Are the urban revival and the future of mobility already rendering parking lots obsolete? Chicago provides a case study of a new generation of skyscrapers rising were cars once parked.

March 26 - Chicago Tribune

Most deployment of 5G "small cells" won't get any resistance from federal regulations.

March 26 - VentureBeat

A plan to rezone a stretch of Jerome Avenue in the Bronx is the fourth rezoning completed during the tenure of Mayor Bill de Blasio, and the first to visit the Bronx.

March 26 - Commercial Observer

The city of Boston is in the midst of a housing boom, and the city is considering asking developers to set aside a larger number of their units for affordable housing.

March 25 - The Boston Globe

In the wake of a high-profile (and fatal) accident involving an autonomous Uber car, the safety debate is trending. But the broader economic picture still points to a future of shared driverless rides.

March 25 - The Economist

Opponents cite environmental risks, supporters hope the facility will boost the economy of a struggling community.

March 25 - Pittsburg Post-Gazette