The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

CityLab reviews the "Skyscraper" mobile app game, from Tinybop, Inc.

July 30 - CityLab

A confluence of economic and demographic factors means fewer Americans own homes than at any time since 1965.

July 29 - Bloomberg

The University of Texas Arlington's Institute of Urban Studies is doing to legwork for an update of the Downtown Dallas 360 master plan.

July 29 - Dallas News

The deployment of so-called defensive architecture is in the news again. This time the controversy is in the public realm, as San Francisco considers a fence to keep homeless out of McCoppin Hub.

July 29 - Curbed SF

The idea behind the "Racial Equity Here" initiative: dismantle systematic racial inequality.

July 29 - Next City

A New York City micro-unit developer had hoped to sell 550 micro-condos to millennials and empty nesters. The project is being redesigned to reduce the number of micro-condos and add a hotel.

July 29 - Houston Business Journal

An equity strategist offers advice on creating safe streets programs that address systemic racism.

July 29 - Streetsblog

A new study looks at the interaction between bicyclists and streetcars (trams) or train tracks and does not find a good outcome.

July 29 - Treehugger

Through a series of legal maneuvers associated with a coal giant's bankruptcy, the Sierra Club made good on a conservation opportunity worth $2.2 billion and weighing 53 million tons.

July 29 - Slate

London's central core never experienced the deterioration many American downtowns lived through, but the inner city/suburb dynamic was still at play. Now poverty is moving outward.

July 29 - The Telegraph

Biking is very rock and roll. Portland just turned up the volume.

July 29 - Bike Portland

MARTA's Five Points station will be the first to test an idea of building small soccer fields at multiple transit stations in the system.

July 28 - Creative Loafing

While Democrats consider the future of the country, the host city of the DNC offers a great urban lesson from the past: the elegant efficiency of rowhouses.

July 28 - California Planning & Development Report

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has approved legislation that will allow the construction of accessory dwelling units, potentially adding thousands of units to the city's housing supply.

July 28 - San Francisco Examiner

The North San Francisco Bay Area has lacked passenger rail for decades—but the process of hiring the staff necessary to operate the line on a daily basis has been complicated by the cost of housing in the area.

July 28 - Marin Independent Journal

Connecting affordable housing and healthcare programs can improve both—especially for seniors and disabled people.

July 28 - CityLab

Hurricane Katrina may have devastated much of New Orleans, but in its wake, literally, unexpected good work was done. Clean sediment was deposited over lead-contaminated soil, one reason why lead levels in children decreased.

July 28 - The Times Picayune

The Republican and Democratic parties both claim to understand the importance of infrastructure, but they show support in vastly different ways.

July 28 - the transport politic

Urban bike infrastructure is plagued by three related problems: design, politics, and security.

July 28 - Slate

A city famous for tall palm trees wants to find some shade.

July 28 - Los Angeles Times