The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

An article in Quartz laments the underwhelming results of a generation of gadgets intended to make houses technologically enabled.

April 6 - Quartz

There's good news and bad news in a new report on the state of transportation infrastructure in the state of Illinois.

April 6 - Chi.Streetsblog

The Kansas City Land Bank has the funding to back up plans to begin transforming blighted, vacant lots into thriving groves of poplar trees.

April 6 - The Kansas City Star

The bus rapid transit route connecting Downtown Detroit with Ann Arbor, or also the Detroit Metro Airport, is under consideration as part of a master planning effort by the Regional Transit Agency.

April 6 - Deadline Detroit

Juno, a new transportation network company launching to a small group of testers in New York this month, is hoping to shake up the business model adopted by its predecessors in the field.

April 6 - The Washington Post

The U.S Department of Transportation has announced a competitive grant funding opportunity designed specifically for bus transit.

April 6 - Mass Transit

Economist Jed Kolko's recent study on how the lack in affordability of cities determines who's moving there, whose moving out, and how these changes are shaping cities and suburbs. His paper is the basis for several articles by leading urban writers.

April 6 - The Atlantic

The dangerous absurdity of building a national—or a community—to-do list around fear, resentment, and wishful thinking

April 6 - PlaceShakers

It's the details of transit apps that matter to users, so the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (Metro) just made a change of technology provider that will help make it easier to accurately predict bus arrival times.

April 6 - DCist

The city of Charlottesville, home to the University of Virginia, has approved a controversial measure to begin charging for on-street parking in the city's downtown.

April 6 - C-Ville Weekly

The city of Austin is hoping to avoid a "piecemeal, haphazard" approach to redevelopment in the South Central waterfront district.

April 5 - Austin American-Statesman

This is the moment a lot of traffic safety advocates have been waiting for: the AP Style Guide, purveyors of rules and regulations to journalists and other, has taken a side in the debate about the word "accident."

April 5 - Twitter

It's easy to focus on the shrinking market share and layoffs in the coal industry and see the demise of the industry, but construction of new coal burning power plants is still booming in countries like China and India.

April 5 - Vox

When suburban voters and political leaders oppose transit funding sales taxes, the entire region experiences the consequences. Atlanta is the latest case study in this political dynamic.

April 5 - Saporta Report

A new zoning law in Toronto could enable its hundreds of suburban tower developments to become vibrant and active communities.

April 5 - Doggerel

TransCanada, the company that hoped to build a Canada-to-Gulf Coast pipeline, now wants to build one to carry Bakken oil from North Dakota to Canada, transporting oil now hauled only by trains that have caused recent deadly explosions.

April 5 - The Bismarck Tribune

Places like Columbia Heights, an older suburb north of Minneapolis, lie at the focal point of conflict over development and gentrification. Can these places support a 21st-century urbanism?

April 5 - Governing

San Francisco may move to protect teachers from "no-fault" evictions during the school year.

April 5 - San Francisco Examiner

Driven by economic and demographic trends, poverty in "outer ring" suburbs is on the rise. Since 2000, Atlanta's suburbs have seen the highest rate of change in poverty of any comparable metro region.

April 5 - WABE

Amid the ubiquitous, and inconsistent, reportage on rising rents and housing prices, a guide from City Observatory helps point readers toward the most accurate numbers.

April 5 - City Observatory