The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

A humorous post offers advice on how to adjust to life trapped in a sea of cars swelled by school pick-up and drop-off schedules: think of it as "me time."

September 6 - The Dallas Morning News

The Vision 2050 plan, which charts the growth for King, Pierce, Snohomish, and Kitsap counties in Washington State, would focus almost all the growth meant to accommodate 1.8 million new residents inside urban areas.

September 6 - The Urbanist

Capital investments could get more expensive, if Congress forces transit systems to buy American.

September 6 - Eno Center for Transportation

New research using the Terner Center California Residential Land Use Survey also connects demographic trends to housing development opposition.

September 6 - Terner Center for Housing Innovation

The City Council of Durham, North Carolina has approved changes to the city's master plan, first approved in 2005, to allow new forms of density in residential neighborhoods proximate to the city's downtown urban core.

September 6 - News & Observer

The eyes have it.

September 6 - Fox Denver

A rational consumer might have anticipated the anxieties brought on by such small, expensive portable devices. Now the public is paying the price in the.

September 6 - Gothamist

The Clark County Commission is extending a sales tax, created in 1998, which could have drawn to a close after raising $2.3 billion or the year 2025, whichever came first. The tax will remain in place indefinitely.

September 5 - Las Vegas Sun

Charles Loveman, executive director of Heritage Housing Partners, explains the historical role that subsidized demand played in spurring housing production and the value of low to moderate-income affordable homeownership development.

September 5 - The Planning Report

Vistra Energy is closing coal power plants in Illinois, each of which employs between 60 to 90 workers.

September 5 - NBC

Northern San Joaquin Valley transit officials are eying a $100 billion Bay Area transportation measure to potentially fund a $1 billion rail tunnel for two commuter railroads to bring workers to the East Bay and Silicon Valley.

September 5 - The Sacramento Bee

The idea of cities as components of larger megaregions has lost some of its popularity, Alon Levy looks at regions around the world to try to understand how useful the concept is in understanding cities and regions.

September 5 - Pedestrian Observations

The United States is still mostly populated by white people, but there are plenty of places where that is no longer true.

September 5 - Pew Research Center

Dutch design firm West 8 recently won a competition to rethink an 11-mile stretch of the Baltimore's waterfront, not to be confused with a $5.5 billion project to redevelop Port Covington.

September 5 - Next City

Hurricane Dorian wreaked havoc on the Bahamas for several days before turning toward the Southeastern United States.

September 5 - Vox

Critics of the earliest Democratic candidate debates have noted a conspicuous lack of substantive and concentrated discussion on one of the great existential threats of the era: climate change. Neglect of the subject could change soon.

September 5 - Curbed

Too many innovative proposals to solve the city’s biggest transportation problems fall by the wayside.

September 5 - Intelligencer - New York Magazine

When the temperatures become dangerous in this desert city, not everyone has the option to retreat to air-conditioned spaces to wait it out.

September 4 - The Guardian

Los Angeles County's new, ambitious sustainability plan was crafted in collaboration with the significant resources available in the region, including one of the nation's finest public universities.

September 4 - UCLA Newsroom

Bustang regional bus service is growing fast as people look to navigate a growing state.

September 4 - The Denver Post