The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Next City has released what it's calling an "urbanist's guide" to the Democratic National Convention.

July 26 - Next City

On July 25, 1916, New York adopted its first Zoning Resolution, for the first time regulating the height, size and arrangement of buildings in the city.

July 25 - The New York Times

The New York MTA has chosen the "remove-the-band-aid-quickly" strategy for its plans to repair the L Train line from Brooklyn to Manhattan.

July 25 - The New York Times

Anyone in Chicago or with their eyes on social media this weekend couldn't have avoided the scary sights produced by an afternoon storm.

July 25 - DNAinfo Chicago

Some are calling it the summer of Algae—from Utah to Florida to Australia, the world is encountering massive amounts of the stinky, dangerous sludge.

July 25 - Grist

Just because the public sector has set a goal to deliver thousands of new workforce housing units, doesn’t mean the market, or the private sector for that matter, will cooperate.

July 25 - The Boston Globe

Food desert-busting is one of the cross-over opportunities between planning and public health, but it's unclear how effective bringing healthy foods to underserved neighborhoods has been.

July 25 - The Dallas Morning News

Test your knowledge of the New York home base of Donald Trump's real estate business.

July 25 - Curbed New York

A new EPA report indicates that auto manufacturers will meet fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions standards relying largely on gasoline powered vehicles. Or will they? While likely to fall short of 54.5 mpg, they will come close enough.

July 25 - U.S. D.O.T. Press Release

If you guessed cheap gas, love of automobiles, or preference for air travel, you are correct, but those fall under one reason, "lack of demand." Two additional reasons are offered in this article for the construction industry.

July 25 - Construction Dive

The Republic National Convention dominated the news last week, and for good reason. There was also eye candy for New York transit advocates and lots of new housing research to enjoy.

July 25 - Planetizen

A home in poor physical condition can be "devastating" to a child's early development, a study of Cleveland kindergarteners found.

July 24 - The Atlantic

Though housing advocates consider micro-housing units a helpful tool in keeping housing affordable, the city of Seattle has nonetheless produced a series of regulations making such projects harder and harder to build.

July 24 - Neiman Taber

The market for office space has more and more companies looking to lease, according to an industry report.

July 24 - The Dallas Morning News

Not everyone is buying in to the city of Columbus' vision for the future of transportation.

July 24 - Grist

The anticipated approval of the largest proposed offshore wind farm in the U.S., a 90-megawatt facility off Montauk on Long Island, was unexpectedly delayed. But what will soon be the nation's first offshore wind farm did receive some good news.

July 24 - Innovate Long Island

The chickens have come home to roost in Seattle, where the state has tallied up the cost and time overruns for the Highway 99 tunnel project.

July 23 - The Seattle Times

The Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer raises pointed questions about the purpose of public space such as Dilworth Park, which has been absent of protests since it was remodeled two years ago.

July 23 - The Philadelphia Inquirer

A logistics park in Fenton, expected to attract $382 million in investment, will move forward with $50 million in tax increment financing.

July 23 - St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Like many cities around the country, Portland, Maine is faced with rising costs for housing as demand outpaces supply.

July 23 - Island Institute