The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

A Next City article argues that investing in job programs and other public goods would do more to make those communities safe than investing in police departments.

July 24 - Next City

Elon Musk's desire to tunnel a path to freedom from congestion refuses to die.

July 24 - Wired

Gov. Jerry Brown, Peninsula congresswomen, including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, and state legislative leaders gathered in Millbrae with shovels-in hands to mark the beginning of a four-year construction project to electrify Caltrain.

July 24 - The Daily Journal

Randall Arendt looks at how communities can achieve results similar to Form-Based Codes through a simpler set of form-based design standards (FBDS).

July 24 - Maine Association of Planners Front Page

Amazon's Treasure Trucks hawk everything from GoPros to poke bowls and Harry Potter books.

July 24 - Modern Cities

Beloved as it is, Dodger Stadium did not come easily to Los Angeles. Its development was fraught with protests, political rivalries, and debates over public investment and urbanism. Those debates continue today.

July 24 - California Planning & Development Report

While reduced from current levels, the House Appropriations Committee budgeted far more than what President Trump had proposed, but they agreed with him to eliminate the TIGER grant program and reduce transit investments, though by a lesser amount.

July 24 - The Hill

Millennials have lower rates of home ownership, and higher tuitions are partly to blame.

July 24 - Bloomberg

The National Park Service is looking for solutions to overcrowding at its most popular parks. The idea of an online reservation system might get its first test in Utah.

July 23 - Associated Press via The Mercury News

Chicago's Metra has the resources to create frequent transit for a large swath of the South Side. Instead, their plan supports only the most fortunate along that train line.

July 23 - South Side Weekly

Faced with "mounting costs" due to the impacts of climate change, a collection of coastal communities in California have taken legal action against the fossil fuel industry.

July 23 - Associated Press via KPCC

New York's ability to feed itself with locally grown urban agriculture is only being partially realized. Better planning, specific to urban agriculture, would help.

July 23 - The Wall Street Journal

Rents and prices are going up for basically every kind of housing unit in Alexandria, Virginia. The city's commitment to the preservation of subsidized housing is no match.

July 23 - Greater Greater Washington

A few ideas on how advertisements could do a better job of selling public transit to the public.

July 22 - Mobility Lab

A new CincyInsights dashboard shows recycling participation rates all over the city.

July 22 - City of Cincinnati

A car spends 95 percent of the time parked, and only 5 percent of its time in use. The huge amount of space that system requires is made "intuitively and accessibly" comparable by the What the Street project.

July 22 - Fast Company

Mayor Gimenez is citing frugality as the reason behind a decision that favors bus rapid transit over an earlier proposal for new rail lines.

July 22 - The Miami Herald

Opponents of red light cameras have achieved a major victory against the Rahm Administration in Chicago.

July 22 - Chicago Tribune

The rapidly growing and urbanizing continent of Africa offers lessons in property tax.

July 21 - At Lincoln House

The Citymapper "smart bus" system will rely on the power of data to meet transit service demand in London.

July 21 - The Verge