The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

It's a tale as old as time: A plan to rezone ten acres of land in Spokane splits the public and the City Council from the opinions of the city's planning staff and Planning Commission.

December 3 - The Spokesman-Review

As cities around the country consider legislation that will allow tenants a chance to buy their buildings, Washington, D.C., can provide lessons on what to do—and not to do.

December 3 - Shelterforce Magazine

Climate change will only increase the frequency of incidents like the one captured by a television news station in Chicago earlier this week.

December 3 - Bicycling

The stakes in the economic stimulus package under consideration on Capitol Hill this week are incredibly high.

December 3 - The Washington Post

Affordable housing providers have touted the connections between health and the places where people live for years. In a small city outside of Boston, the evidence is incontrovertible.

December 2 - Shelterforce Magazine

Seattle is one of the U.S. cities shrinking minimum parking requirements to allow for denser, more affordable development near transit.

December 2 - Transfers Magazine

This new Manual is a guide for evaluating peoples' ability to access services and activities, and therefore the performance of transportation and land use configurations.

December 2 - Transport Access Manual: A Guide for Measuring Connection between People and Places

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After moving toward Democrats for decades, central cities moved toward Republicans in 2020.

December 2 - Michael Lewyn

One candidate is seen as combative to developers during a housing crisis, and the other is a real estate agent. The race to lead a section of Reno that includes the city's oldest, most historic neighborhoods came down to 82 votes.

December 2 - The Nevada Independent

Rural areas have been attracting a lot attention for news sources traditionally devoted to urban news and information. A new report from the Brookings Institution is the latest example.

December 2 - Brookings

Introducing the Micromobility Policy Atlas.

December 2 - Shared-Use Mobility Center

Record numbers of pedestrians have been killed by drivers in recent years. The federal government says a "team effort" will be necessary to stop the carnage.

December 2 - Smart Cities Dive

Advocates have been waiting for the other shoe to drop as transit agencies deal with cratered revenues during the pandemic without support from Congress.

December 1 - San Francisco Examiner

Tires wear down and shed toxic microplastics into stormwater, which eventually ends up in rivers and the ocean. Recent research sheds new light on the extent of the damage.

December 1 - Hakai Magazine

To keep up with affordable housing demand, Snohomish County needs to add 200,000 units by 2050. Planned light rail stations could be the ticket.

December 1 - The Urbanist

After a string of high-profile successes in places as geographically distant as Philadelphia and the East Bay Area, an ugly episode in L.A. County the day before Thanksgiving dealt a brutal setback to the burgeoning right to housing movement.

December 1 - LAist

As expected, air travel in the United States reached heights not seen since before the pandemic, but still fell well short of the norm.

December 1 - The Dallas Morning News

Some portions of the bus rapid transit (BRT) system planned for Madison, Wisconsin will resemble the fully realized BRT systems more common in other parts of the world.

December 1 - Wisconsin State Journal

Rent control was dealt another high-profile setback in California, and the Green New Deal is a hot button issue stuck in limbo in Congress. Both efforts got the go-ahead from voters in Portland, Maine in November.

December 1 - Next City

The public-private partnership behind the Purple Line light rail project in Maryland fell apart in September, and has this past week been revived.

December 1 - The Washington Post