The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

A feature article revisits the gentrification and displacement discussion, especially as it pertains to racial and economic demographics, in one of the nation's most troubled and challenging housing markets.

August 14 - The Mercury News

Zappos, a shoe company, is working with Geoship, a geodesic dome company, to build a village of the domes in Las Vegas.

August 14 - FastCompany

Houston's potential as a multi-modal city will be on the ballot this November.

August 14 - Houston Chronicle

The company hopes that a broader service area and discounted rides will help people better access transit services.

August 14 - Chicago Tribune

In July, a local nonprofit closed down an entire street in the Ohio City neighborhood of Cleveland for a placemaking experiment that had to be partially dismantled before the three-month duration of the program was complete.

August 14 - The Plain Dealer

Sacramento Regional Transit is overhauling its bus system in September, so they old signs for stops will have to go. Instead of scrapping the old signs, the agency is giving them away for collectors' items.

August 14 - The Sacramento Bee

There hasn't been a passenger rail connection between Detroit and Toronto since 1971, but that could change.

August 14 - Wood TV 8

The Green Line extension will bring light rail service from Boston to Somerville and Medford, when it's done.

August 14 - The Boton Globe

This pop quiz will probably expand knowledge about cities more than test it, because the questions and answers are pretty obscure.

August 14 - The Guardian

The prosecution rests.

August 14 - Streetsblog USA

The longest rail line in the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority system will be extended again, and could eventually cross county lines.

August 13 - Daily Bulletin

There is a lot of development and planning intrigue about a casino developer and the extremely challenging plan to add an on-ramp to the Schuylkill Expressway in South Philadelphia.

August 13 - The Philadelphia Inquirer

The Ride smartphone app, which has gathered millions of miles of bike trip data to help inform bike planning and encourage cycling, is moving on to micromobility.

August 13 - Bike Portland

The glitzy new neighborhood doesn’t cater to all Boston residents, according to a new survey.

August 13 - The Boston Globe

A big feature explores the effects of climate change, which are already very much changing life in the United States.

August 13 - The Washington Post

Call it a role reversal: Oakland is building far more apartments and housing units than San Francisco—a reversal of the history of development in the Bay Area.

August 13 - San Francisco Chronicle

Reform of the Washington State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA) is underway at the local level after a new state bill offered "safe harbor" under the law for a menu of land use and development reforms.

August 13 - The Urbanist

A rooftop housing development in the Indonesian capital takes the suburb to new heights.

August 13 - The Guardian

Cincinnati area voters might get a chance to decide the future of transit funding in the city of Cincinnati and the county of Hamilton.

August 13 - WCPO

A recent study out of Europe reveals the potential of electric-assist bikes (e-bikes) to transition mobility away from cars.

August 13 - Treehugger