The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

The Global 100% Renewable Energy campaign is one voice encouraging cities to adopt entirely renewable sources of energy. It recommends decentralized energy systems like rooftop solar.

July 28 - Citiscope

Led by the companies Mobike and Ofo, so-called "dockless" bike sharing is all the rage in Chinese cities. Unlocked by app, the bikes can be left anywhere for the next user to pick up. There have been some hiccups.

July 28 - CNN Tech

A high-profile controversy over a decision by the city of Los Angeles to remove a vehicle lane in either direction has finally come to an end. The vehicle lanes will be restored.

July 28 - Los Angeles Times

Unlike the House Appropriations Committee's DOT budget that reduces spending by almost 4 percent from current levels and eliminates the TIGER grant program, its Senate counterpart increased transportation spending, including the TIGER grant budget.

July 28 - The Hill

We don't usually think zoning when considering farmland preservation, but Hazel Borys shares are a few thoughts that may help.

July 28 - PlaceShakers

The world's skinniest skyscraper, under construction on Manhattan "Billionaire's Row," is over budget with 60 stories left to build.

July 28 - The New York Post

Streetsblog USA breaks the news of a major policy departure for the National Transportation Safety Board: speeding kills, and every level of government must do more to counter the problem.

July 28 - Streetsblog USA

This kind of satire burns.

July 28 - Clickhole

A City Council committee's approval of a proposed rezoning of Midtown East represents a big win for the de Blasio Administration. The Bloomberg Administration fell short in an efforts to upzone the neighborhood in 2013.

July 27 - Crain's New York Business

President Trump told Wall Street Journal reporters earlier this week that Upstate New York "isn't working," and residents should follow manufacturing jobs to other parts of the country.

July 27 - The Buffalo News

The latest in a series of new pedestrian crossings at the Mexico-U.S. border between San Ysidro and El Chaparral opens on July 31.

July 27 - The San Diego Union-Tribune

The city of Berkeley has a radical idea for how to build more transitional housing for its sizable homeless population.

July 27 - East Bay Express

Gov. Jerry Brown, accompanied by former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, signed legislation to continue the cap-and-trade program initially authorized under a bill signed by his Republican predecessor 11 years ago at the same Treasure Island location.

July 27 - KQED News

The Adaptive Biketown system hit the streets in Portland on July 21, 2017.

July 27 - Bike Portland

Large investment companies are betting against homeownership—by buying up homes in suburban areas and putting them on the rental market.

July 27 - The Wall Street Journal

Starting in May 2018: 17 daily round trips between New Haven and Hartford, including 12 trips continuing on to Springfield.

July 27 - The Hartford Courant

Art and culture tend to be integral to helping disenfranchised communities self-identify, develop their identities, and organize around place-based issues. But its presence can also be used be used by real estate interests to market neighborhoods.

July 27 - Shelterforce/Rooflines

These examples are specific to Washington, D.C., but many of the facts listed in this article will apply elsewhere, too.

July 27 - Greater Greater Washington

Not all property data maps are created equal.

July 26 - Data-Smart City Solutions

"A hungry world is not a just world," says one of the local residents quoted in this story about a community garden in Denver.

July 26 - The Denver Post