The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

The Biden administration's climate plan calls for sweeping reform in the country's energy policy and places new focus on addressing racial and economic disparities.

February 7 - The Washington Post

The Federal Railroad Administration recently released a preliminary study of a proposed high-speed maglev train route between Baltimore and Washington, D.C.

February 7 - The Washington Post

COVID-19 restrictions have highlighted the importance of abundant, multi-use open spaces accessible to all.

February 5 - San Francisco Chronicle

Resident services has long been the first to be cut in hard times—but for some housing providers that may be changing.

February 5 - Shelterforce Magazine

After the Twin Cities lowered speed limits in the urban core of the region in 2020, a trio of suburban cities are planning to follow. Two of the cities are planning to set some speed limits as low as 20 mph.

February 5 - Star Tribune

The State of Place blog is offering a pop quiz designed to help you diagnose the kind of post-2020 city-maker you are.

February 5 - State of Place

The nation’s most populous state without an intercity passenger rail program could be the benefit of ambitions to expand the network of Amtrak service around the country.

February 4 - All Aboard Ohio

Regional parks like Whittier Narrows Recreation Area in Southern California offers something for everyone and are more important than ever in the midst of a pandemic.

February 4 - KCRW

Automated mobility technologies are coming. How do we ensure that they serve everyone?

February 4 - Urbanism Next Center at the University of Oregon

The Washington State legislature will consider a number of bills this session that would alter planning and development in a state grappling with population growth and rising housing costs.

February 4 - The Urbanist

Transit advocates are launching a new push for federal funding aid to increase service on existing transit routes.

February 4 - TransitCenter

Assessing the scale of homelessness in the United States is surprisingly difficult, with statistics failing to capture the diversity of unhoused people and their situations.

February 4 - The New York Times

Coronavirus infection, hospitalizations and most recently, deaths, are declining, but public health experts warn that more transmissible variant strains of the coronavirus threaten to overwhelm hospitals in the next few months.

February 4 - CIDRAP News

A counterintuitive argument contends that from a housing justice perspective, the Biden administration's attack on exclusionary zoning is imprudent.

February 4 - Shelterforce Magazine

Business as usual in the real estate industry is failing the economy and the political and social cohesion of the United States, according to a new initiative launched by the Brookings Institution.

February 3 - Brookings

President Biden's executive order may put the final nail in the coffin of the controversial pipeline project, but it was unwavering local activists who kept the pressure on for a decade.

February 3 - Atmos

An intimate look at what it’s like fighting for meaningful state-level rent relief when the powers that be don’t believe everyone is worth saving.

February 3 - Shelterforce Magazine

A new half-acre park is taking shape on a previously undeveloped hillside property in Chinatown, one of the more densely populated and park-poor areas in L.A.

February 3 - Urbanize Los Angeles

Local leaders are challenging state-mandated affordable housing requirements for the 2021-2029 cycle.

February 3 - Santa Monica Daily Press

BLOG POST

Many companies set goals to achieve by 2020 and came up short, while the effects of climate change were more obvious than ever in the year that was 2020.

February 3 - James Brasuell