The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

New pop-up bus lanes on two of the most heavily traveled bus routes in Chicago will help move essential workers more efficiently during the pandemic.

September 24 - Smart Cities Dive

Observers can only speculate about the development plans of the new owners of one of the city of Atlanta's largest development opportunities.

September 24 - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

An opinion piece makes the case that a rezoning proposal for the Brooklyn neighborhood of Gowanus has a higher potential for new affordable housing and lower risk of displacement compared to other rezoning plans in the city.

September 24 - City Limits

Purple Line Transit Partners, the contractors managing construction of the beleaguered Purple Line in Maryland, have begun to walk off the job as a dispute about cost overruns brings the project to a screeching halt.

September 23 - The Washington Post

An economic development pro makes an argument for an approach to economic development that prioritizes the urban design decisions that favor community character.

September 23 - Proud Places

The federal government of Canada is promising to help cities pay for affordable housing.

September 23 - The Globe and Mail

With the signs of climate change all around, the effects of the Trump administration's environmental regulation rollbacks look increasingly dire.

September 23 - The New York Times

A controversial summer has finally claimed the grand ambitions for a waterfront site in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.

September 23 - Politico

Hong Kong provides a lesson in the importance of open space for the health and well-being of residents, especially during the isolation and distancing of a pandemic.

September 23 - BBC

Metra's significant drop in ridership has forced the agency to adapt to a new transit landscape and plan for equitable fare offerings and service changes.

September 23 - Active Transportation Alliance

A case study in community-led neighborhood revitalization.

September 23 - Brookings

Peter Calthorpe's case study of El Camino Real in the Silicon Valley shows the potential for affordable housing development in the land surrounding side right-of-ways.

September 22 - CNU Public Square

A spate of recent articles has taken a critical look at the regulatory obstacles to a progrssive planning vision in the state of California.

September 22 - San Francisco Chronicle

The Common Orchard Project has planted ten orchards in vacant lots in Cincinnati. The organization hopes to plant 100 urban orchards by the end of the decade.

September 22 - WVXU

With the pandemic, people need to see and experience beauty, nature, and parks more than ever. Learn more about some of America's urban oases.

September 22 - National Geographic

A new company called Civvl is hiring contract workers to help evict people during the economic struggles of the pandemic.

September 22 - Vice

Another example of the growing political and planning opposition to the idea of tolling new roads in Texas.

September 22 - Houston Chronicle

Gregg Lintern, chief planner and executive director of the City Planning Division for Toronto, went before a city committee this week to press for a new inclusionary zoning scheme to ensure the construction of affordable housing.

September 22 - The Star

A speculative but exceedingly ambitious plan is pressing for air time in New York City.

September 22 - The New York Times

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign developed a high-frequency coronavirus testing system that would be the envy of an country or corporation, testing students, faculty and staff twice a week, but it still failed to stem a major outbreak.

September 21 - Bloomberg BusinessWeek