The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

The hordes of people moving to Texas every year could soon encounter the same kinds of housing affordability challenges they left behind.

February 12 - Houston Chronicle

A Baltimore city councilmember thinks the city has misplace priority on parking by making it illegal to play in the street.

February 12 - WYPR

Urban renewal plans for Downtown D.C. and the Shaw neighborhood are all that's left of a mid-20th-century planning effort.

February 12 - Bisnow

The American Planning Association identifies three issues that will define the year in state legislatures around the country.

February 12 - American Planning Association

An onion piece published by D Magazine makes an argument for less burdensome parking requirements as a way to deliver more affordable housing options in Dallas' housing stock.

February 11 - D Magazine

Resilience in a post-Brexit London.

February 11 - Smart Cities Dive

Auto insurance comparison outfit Insurify reviewed two million insurance applications and calculated the states with the rudest drivers based on one or more driving violations.

February 11 - Insurify Insights

Too many cities lack a legal way for corner stores to be planned or built—despite the obvious benefits of the use to neighborhoods.

February 11 - CNU Public Square

The controversial tax break known as TIF looks headed for reforms in the Windy City, as Mayor Lori Lightfoot promises reforms that ensure more equitable application of the benefits of TIF.

February 11 - Chicago Tribune

Landowners, oil and gas companies, environmental groups, and fishers all have an interest in sorting out the status of Louisiana's privately owned coastline as rising water inundates the state.

February 11 - NOLA.com

The Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 was the final of a suite of federal laws aimed at fighting racial segregation in housing. Congress is beginning to consider how best to modernize the act to meet the challenges of contemporary times.

February 11 - Washington Center for Equitable Growth

According to this article in the New York Times, the days of development interests dominating the planning process in New York City are over.

February 11 - The New York Times

FEATURE

William Riggs, assistant professor at the University of San Francisco School of Management, predicts the trends that will continue an ongoing revolution in transportation.

February 10 - William Riggs

The president spoke briefly about infrastructure in his third State of the Union address last Tuesday, urging Congress to pass the bipartisan America’s Transportation Infrastructure Act of 2019. Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer had a lot more to say.

February 10 - Transport Topics

A pair of articles mine the films nominated for Academy Award for lessons in design and development that could potentially benefit housing equality.

February 10 - Los Angeles Times

Many of the Democratic candidates have offered housing policy plans as a key plank in their election platforms, but here a prominent YIMBY politician confronts them directly on the housing crisis in California.

February 10 - Palm Springs Desert Sun

Eric Jaffe, writing for Sidewalk Labs, details a recent issue of the Journal of the American Planning Association that debated the future of single-family zoning.

February 10 - Sidewalk Talk

To prevent losing funding if the state's interstate highways fall below new federal standards, Pennsylvania is rushing to change its capital investments plans.

February 10 - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

BLOG POST

Is the existence of vacant apartments an excuse not to build new housing?

February 10 - Michael Lewyn

The traditional narratives about the history of planning fail to note the role of Black urbanists, as well as the effect of planning policies on Black Americans.

February 10 - Planning Magazine