The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

A new law in the nation's capital will fine people on bikes caught listening to headphones as a Vision Zero traffic safety measure.

February 23 - DCist

Voters in Toledo, Ohio could grant personhood status to the polluted and abused Lake Erie.

February 22 - The Guardian

In a dispatch from the Urban 20 Mayoral Summit, Jocelyn Perry and Bill Burke-White write about cities' role in climate governance and public policy.

February 22 - Penn IUR Urban Link

According to a recent report, the self-sufficiency of agriculture in the Washington, D.C. region is declining. Encroachment from suburban sprawl, driven by a region-wide housing crunch, is one causal factor.

February 22 - Greater Greater Washington

Although Ford has stopped its commuter shuttle service, on-demand shuttles have a place in the transportation landscape of the future.

February 22 - Smart Cities Dive

New York City is holding a competition for a distinctive logo to clearly demarcate all of its 550 privately-owned public spaces.

February 22 - AM New York

The Boston area's Metropolitan Area Planning Council has an Artist-in-Residence Program that brings arts to the table as an integral component of the planning process.

February 22 - Barr Foundation

President Trump still touts coal and its return, but what’s happening in the real world suggests coal is on its way out for good.

February 22 - Intelligencer - New York Magazine

Many of the movies nominated for Oscars this year gain a great deal of thematic and storytelling meaning from their locations.

February 22 - Brookings

Sidewalk Labs, the subsidiary company of Google parent company Alphabet, has designs for development potential far beyond the Quayside neighborhood where it's partnering with Waterfront Toronto to test new smart city technology.

February 22 - Toronto Star

The definitions of suburban chosen by researchers tend to fall into three categories—and each has a significant impact and the results of academic inquiry.

February 22 - Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University

Project supporters and the Trump administration disagree on the takeaway for the Gateway project after Congress and the president signed a federal spending bill earlier this month.

February 21 - Bloomberg

Some good news, and some bad, on the effect of bike-share programs on transit ridership.

February 21 - Smart Cities Dive

The new TIF is expected to generate $900 million. Opponents wanted to wait until a new mayor is elected to decide on the TIF.

February 21 - Chicago Sun-Times

The Trump administration has canceled a nearly $1 billion grant assigned to the California high-speed rail project and is attempting to get the state to return the $2.5 billion it has already spent on the $77 billion project.

February 21 - The New York Times

In the past ten years, Downtown Seattle has built more housing than all of San Francisco.

February 21 - Seattle Times

Last week, Amazon abruptly canceled its decision to invest about $2.5 billion and bring 25,000 high-paying jobs to Queens. A scholar blames their abrupt decision on an arcane state bureaucracy tasked with preventing Robert Moses-like takings.

February 21 - Politico Magazine

In a survey conducted last October, Zillow found that 27 percent of respondents believe they've experienced housing discrimination. National Fair Housing Alliance president Lisa Rice discusses why that is.

February 21 - Zillow Research

An influx of millennials is driving population and housing growth in the Center City neighborhood.

February 21 - Philadelphia Inquirer - Philly.com

There are more than a few reasons to think that the Obama Presidential Center won't go the way of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, which gave up and decamped for Los Angeles.

February 21 - Chicago Tribune