The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

The plan to top I-5 in Seattle with a cap park—what writer Natalie Bicknell calls "the most ambitious effort in our region"—is moving ahead with a $1.5 million feasibility study.

January 3 - The Urbanist

Apple has plans to build a new campus and expand its Texas workforce. The decision to expand to an Austin suburb points to both regional and national trends and outcomes.

January 3 - CityLab

BLOG POST

Some thoughts on what we might have learned in 2018 and what it might mean going forward.

January 3 - Steven Polzin

The state of Virginia won't let Washington Metro increase services that surpass a three percent subsidy cap implemented this summer.

January 3 - WTOP

The Maryland Department of Transportation was the big winner in the Federal Transit Administration's Transit-Oriented Development Pilot Planning Program, with $2 million in grant funding.

January 3 - The Sentinel

The widespread Yellow Vests protests, which initially involved hundreds of thousands of protestors in November, are wrongly being interpreted as a movement against carbon taxes and climate action, rather than a revolt against social inequities.

January 3 - World Resources Institute

Dallas's resiliency plan analyzed the best ways to combat heat in every neighborhood.

January 2 - Governing Magazine

Florida set a goal in to eventually eliminate traffic fatalities on state roads and highways as part of its 2018 Highway Safety Plan. Neither a timeline nor the words vision zero were included.

January 2 - Salud America!

A decade after Congress set a deadline for rail systems to implement positive train control, only 4 rail systems were able to get the job done on time.

January 2 - CNN

The city of Seattle is making more room for alternative transportation modes in its level of service calculations.

January 2 - The Urbanist

San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo, an "avid biker," spent Tuesday night in the hospital after the driver of an automobile struck him as he biked through the city.

January 2 - Los Angeles Times

Speaker-designate Nancy Pelosi has selected Rep. Nancy Castor (D-Fla.) to chair the new Select Committee on the Climate Crisis. Two bills that could advance in the House: the Green New Deal and a carbon tax-and-dividend bill, H.R. 7173.

January 2 - The Atlantic

The city of St. Paul released a draft Pedestrian Plan in November, its first-ever addendum to the city's Comprehensive Plan to focus specifically on pedestrian safety.

January 2 - Next City

The Chinese company seemed to be dominating its corner of the shared mobility market—until its dramatic downfall.

January 2 - The Globe and Mail

Cities spend a lot of time and energy pointing to examples of what they don’t want to become.

January 2 - The New York Times

BLOG POST

Looking forward to 2019, Chuck Wolfe reflects on how time living in London—and exposure to many other places during 2018— has highlighted how the physical shell of the old often frames today's sociocultural realities around the world.

January 2 - Charles R. Wolfe

1.2 million African Americans lived in Chicago in the 1980s. Now Cook County loses tens of thousands of African Americans every year.

January 1 - Chicago Reporter

Controversy surrounds a development deal in the city of SeaTac, after the city made a $15.5 million development deal that could displace a local business community powered by immigrants from Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.

January 1 - The Seattle Times

Scofflaws are common and enforcement difficult in the 40 miles of surface street bus-only lanes in King County, Washington. Transit officials are hoping cameras can help fill the gap.

January 1 - The Seattle Times

The story of the Grand Rapids zoning code update of a decade ago offers perspective on the possibilities of code reform.

January 1 - Next City