The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

A new tool from the Department of Transportation maps all the noise created by traffic nationwide.

April 3 - The Architect's Newspaper

After the defeat of Measure S, Los Angeles Planning Director Vince Bertoni explains how a slew of new planning reforms will help move the city forward.

April 2 - The Planning Report

The report recommends making displacement prevention a more central component of land-use policy.

April 2 - The Architect's Newspaper

Ersatz versions of architectural icons like the Eiffel Tower, the London Bridge, or the Statue of Liberty are popping up around the world. Are you ready to test your skills in parsing the real from the fake?

April 2 - The Guardian

Fighting a plan to develop new affordable housing, some residents of Apalachicola, Florida prefer an effort to restore the town's dilapidated, though historic, housing stock.

April 2 - The New York Times

Two widely cited University of Michigan transportation researchers urge consumers to drive more fuel efficient vehicles to reduce their own carbon emissions as President Trump works to relax vehicle fuel economy standards.

April 2 - The New York Times

There are few sites as essential for urbanists as CityLab. Here's what happened when I tried to be a little more inessential.

April 1 - Planetizen April 1st Edition

2015 was supposed to be the El Niño year.

April 1 - Planetizen April 1st Edition

There's more to vibrant than access to fresh-made baguettes and signage with tastefully chosen typefaces.

April 1 - Planetizen April 1st Edition

The paywalls most likely to make you open a new browser or check the blogs—anything other than paying journalists.

April 1 - Planetizen April 1st Edition

Get to know the "Winter White House."

April 1 - Planetizen April 1st Edition

Long relegated to the back of the house, the kitchen as utility space is being replaced by the modern show kitchen. Located squarely front-of-house, newer kitchens often reinstate the "great room" idea.

March 31 - Construction Dive

As the Los Angeles metro area expands its transit options, transit-oriented development is following suit. In some neighborhoods, lower-income residents are being displaced.

March 31 - UCLA Magazine

7.5 percent of homes in the French capital have no one living in them.

March 31 - Better Dwelling

A sad day for bikeshare.

March 31 - The Seattle Times

Developers have a lot of opinions about how to fix New York's housing market (probably not a surprise) and not all of them consider themselves to be evil (maybe a little bit of a surprise).

March 31 - City Limits

When the newest section is complete, the Grand Parkway will connect I-69 southwest of Sugar Land, Cinco Ranch and Cypress, unincorporated Harris County and Spring, and Harris, Montgomery, Liberty, and Chambers counties.

March 31 - Houston Chronicle

Budgets reflect priorities, and the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority will be prioritizing capital investments in the 2018 fiscal year.

March 31 - Philadelphia

The findings of a recent study reveals the effects of transportation network companies to be the enemy of all forms of alternative transportation—far from the urban savior some hope they'll be.

March 31 - Streetsblog Denver

An intrepid grad student at MIT created a graphic that shows off the color palettes of U.S. and Canadian transit lines.

March 31 - Next City