The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

A series of thoughts about walking, biking, and community after Hurricane Irma.

September 23 - Walking the Walk

The bicycle community in San Diego came up with a win-win-win: an innovative bike center in an abandoned building on a closed military base next to downtown and a major biking route. Then came the real world of unreal bureaucratic concerns.

September 23 - UrbDeZine

Two California cities are going after oil companies with a legal argument that recalls the legislation against big tobacco companies in the 1990s.

September 22 - San Francisco Chronicle

A state park in the Colorado Springs area tried allowing dogs on trails over the summer, but too many people complained about the impact of the canines on the wilderness experience.

September 22 - The Denver Post

A proposed ordinance would save derelict buildings from the wrecking ball, and send them to the salvage yard instead.

September 22 - Urban Milwaukee

How did the seven square mile, four-foot high barrier island in the Atlantic Ocean off Miami and Biscayne Bay hold-up to Hurricane Irma? The city arguably has done more to adapt to sea level rise in recent times than any other coastal city.

September 22 - Planetizen

On a recent tour of Tijuana for young land use professionals, San Diego architect Marin Gertler found a city that used the drought of U.S. tourism in the last decade to redefine and refine its urban core.

September 22 - UrbDeZine

There's a surprising amount of vacancies and blight in the nation's capital, and District officials aren't doing everything in their power to address the challenge.

September 22 - The Washington Post

The New York Times has a potential damning report about shortcuts taken by the New York MTA, under the leadership of Governor Andrew Cuomo, to deliver the Second Avenue Subway on its scheduled opening date at the beginning of the year.

September 22 - The New York Times

Ben Carson has penned an op-ed that lays out the ideology driving the Trump Administration's approach to the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

September 22 - The Hill

Here's a change: Displacement in the nation's fastest growing urban neighborhood has largely been limited to businesses. The new highrises have given Queens something it never had: a skyline.

September 22 - New York Magazine

An armed forces veteran or a Boston Marathon bombing survivor would have been a better choice.

September 22 - Brokelyn

A suite of zoning changes that would increase building heights and density along the Passaic River in Newark, New Jersey, provoked a chaotic council hearing that devolved into shouting and the removal of residents from the council chambers.

September 21 - NJ.com

The first WELL-certified buildings are now online, and the Urban Land Institute has examined the business propositions behind the system.

September 21 - Urban Land

A civil rights organization has taken direct action to provide support for homeless people living in Detroit.

September 21 - Associated Press via Detroit Free Press

A 40-foot bus, dubbed the "Catalyst E2 Max," has broken the world record for longest drive on a single charge, according to manufacturer Proterra.

September 21 - Quartz

While everyone's attention in recent weeks has been on Amazon, another huge tech company has made a big bet on San Francisco.

September 21 - San Francisco Business Times

A popular program to allow street performers (aka, buskers) into station areas on the Seattle region's Sound Transit system has been expanded.

September 21 - The Urbanist

Many pedestrians don't realize it's illegal to cross the street while a crosswalk is counting down until a cop is writing them a ticket. A new bill could change that in California.

September 21 - KPCC

France's Most Contentious Building Getting a 'Green Makeover'

September 21 - Dezeen