The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

An elevated park in Rotterdam shows how green roofs can cool cities and create public parks in tight quarters.

June 5 - Surface Magazine

Few people are aware that the iconic concert venue is also a public park where visitors can walk around and exercise.

June 3 - Los Angeles Times

A new neighborhood dubbed “The Heights” is planned for the East Side of St. Paul, Minnesota.

June 3 - Pioneer Press

Research from late 2021 documented the footprint of urban gardens in Detroit, finding evidence of inequities but not gentrification.

June 3 - WDET

A new initiative highlights the stories of Black homeowners in New York City and the challenges that Black homebuyers continue to face across the country.

June 3 - Black Housing Project

Today’s massive modern distribution centers have outsized impacts on adjacent neighborhoods. But outdated zoning codes often let them slip through the cracks with no environmental review.

June 2 - Next City

Bipartisan political support, billions in state and federal funding, and an unrelenting drought are creating momentum for the Sites Reservoir project in California's northern Central Valley.

June 2 - Los Angeles Times

The Federal Railroad Administration announced a round of grant funding for the Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvements (CRISI) program. The 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act tripled the amount of funding for the program.

June 2 - Federal Railroad Administration

Vast distances and inadequate funding pose problems for the rural transportation services that older adults rely on to access essential services.

June 2 - NBC News

An expansion of the city’s vertical mixed-use (VMU) affordable development program is the furthest along of a package of reforms intended to spur the construction of affordable housing.

June 2 - Community Impact Newspaper

‘Defensive urbanism’ interventions explicitly seek to repel certain, often vulnerable, social groups from public spaces.

June 2 - Canadian Architect

Music naturally brings people together. In Orange, New Jersey, organizers show how “creative placekeeping” finds its strength in the relationships that are formed within the community.

June 2 - Shelterforce Magazine

After facing community opposition and a call for more deeply affordable housing units, developers withdrew their proposal for Harlem’s One45, prompting questions about the future of the site.

June 2 - Patch

The city of Los Angeles is scrambling to keep up with its growing homeless population, and increasingly leaning on punitive measures in response to the crisis.

June 1 - Los Angeles Times

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A 20-year plan to revitalize a historic Dallas fairground will bring much-needed new green space and multi-use venues to Fair Park.

June 1 - Diana Ionescu

New bus routes planned for Salt Lake City have provoked a vocal political opposition.

June 1 - The Salt Lake Tribune

To advance the state's "Outdoors for All" initiative, the park agency is providing funding to 125 low-income urban and rural communities.

June 1 - California State Parks

One USDA program has given out over $1 billion in rural home repair grants since its inception, and could be inspiration for similar programs in urban and suburban communities as well.

June 1 - Shelterforce Magazine

The city council voted to approve an ordinance that will permit more middle housing types in single-family neighborhoods.

June 1 - KLCC

A long-standing tradition of opposing multifamily housing construction continues to hamper housing production even as demand for affordable options grows.

June 1 - Smart Cities Dive