The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Affordable housing advocates are pushing the city to use underutilized city owned property to build more housing, but it doesn't always pencil out.

October 21 - Seattle Times

As some areas of the country seek out new sources of water, other areas are trying to protect what they have.

October 21 - Brookings: The Avenue

K-12 geography proficiency has not improved since 1994.

October 21 - Association of American Geographers

Yonah Freemark throws cold water on the notion that the country is becoming less auto-dependent. Yes, millennials are less auto-oriented than older were, but they haven't stopped per-capita vehicle miles traveled from increasing.

October 21 - the transport politic

Young historic-preservation minded Philadelphians are organized and ready to protect the history of their city.

October 21 - PlanPhilly

In pursuit of an honest conversation about congestion, Charles Marohn produces a comparison between roads and stormwater infrastructure.

October 20 - Strong Towns

South Carolina recently experienced the impacts of what was called a 1,000-year storm. The problem? The state experienced the same level of storm just 26 years ago, and can expect more of the same in the future.

October 20 - NRDC Switchboard

The city of Cleveland's first protected bike path has planning commission approval. The protected path is a component of the city's ambitious bike infrastructure plans.

October 20 - Cleveland Plain Dealer

It's the best of both worlds for OPEC as cheap oil prices increase demand while high-cost rival oil producers are forced to close down wells according to an OPEC study released Oct. 12. And it was all planned.

October 20 - Reuters

The Wrigleyville neighborhood of Chicago will have a national audience this week for the first time since 2003. The neighborhood has changed, and is poised for even more change.

October 20 - Chicago Tribune

A small section of the well-used, protected bike lane on San Francisco's busy Market Street will be raised just a few inches to increase bicycle safety. Construction began Monday and should take a month to complete.

October 20 - ABC7

FEATURE

Planetizen Managing Editor James Brasuell recently gave the Pitkin Lecture at the Pennsylvania state chapter of the American Planning Association's annual conference. An adapted and excerpted version of that lecture follows.

October 20 - James Brasuell

As Houston, Dallas and other sun belt cities build out their light-rail systems, some are asking if the investment is worth it.

October 20 - New Geography

Call it gentrification or rebirth, but a couple's move into the Hingetown neighborhood has led to a transformation of the formerly "toxic corner" of Cleveland.

October 20 - Vanity Fair

A new bridge across the Alleghany River will connect Oakmant and Harmar. Another bridge located in nearby Pittsburgh, made infamous by John Oliver, closed earlier this week.

October 20 - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Northern Michigan's "premier summer resort town" finds itself embroiled in a heated development controversy, reflecting that town's changing population.

October 19 - Detroit Free Press

A decision about how to fund the city of Portland's approach to a worsening affordable housing problem has taken longer than expected.

October 19 - The Oregonian

Camden, New Jersey, is not known for its skyscrapers, but that could change if the development of a site just south of the Benjamin Franklin Bridge is approved.

October 19 - The Architect's Newspaper

Some cities take their surveillance of traffic violations very seriously. Washington, D.C., this time we're looking at you.

October 19 - Vox

Nashville has 100 new projects, worth more than $2 billion, underway or in the pipeline for the next year. What does the building boom mean for city's future.

October 19 - The New York Times