The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

After a long time lost in the woods, architects and engineers are rediscovering timber. Recent fire tests have demonstrated that timber can be a viable building material and meet existing code requirements.

August 25 - Doggerel

Finally, we know where Internet trolls come from—no, not the basements of parents' houses.

August 25 - Wired

Guinness World Records is on the line.

August 25 - NECN

What we now so far about the Interior Department's plans to shrink a "handful" of national monuments around the country.

August 24 - AP for the Oregonian

Elon Musk will get a first chance to prove predictions that the Boring Company can improve tunneling technology after the city of Hawthorne in Los Angeles County approved his plan to build a two-mile tunnel.

August 24 - Daily Breeze

AVs are more than a transportation issue and will have significant impacts on real estate. Expect AVs to affect parking, sprawl, housing prices, and transit.

August 24 - Urbanism Next Blog - Sustainable Cities Initiative

Many cities require the owners of multistory buildings to regularly inspect their façades, looking for problems that may lead to injury or property damage. Drones can potentially help ease the process and cost of doing so.

August 24 - Doggerel

A new economics report from Beacon Economics for Next 10 shows that what good for the environment is good for the state's economy, but the results are marred by increasing vehicle-miles-traveled. The state's housing crisis is partly to blame.

August 24 - Business Wire

The idea is still very preliminary, but the city of Bellevue, Washington is circulating a plan that could create a freeway cap park spanning the I-405 freeway as a component of a new bike and pedestrian path.

August 24 - The Registry

Streetfilms was on hand to celebrate a hard-fought win for the community.

August 24 - StreetsBlog NYC

Iceland is the answer to the trivia question of which country is the first to approve drone delivery service.

August 24 - Smart Cities Dive

The New York City neighborhood of Far Rockaway will see the latest of the rezoning proposals at the center of New York Mayor Bill de Blasio's affordable housing plan.

August 24 - The Real Deal

Suburbia isn't an accident.

August 24 - Devon Marisa Zuegel

Redondo Beach, located in the South Bay area of Los Angeles County, is responding to public outcry by halting all mixed-use projects in the city. Meanwhile, an advisory committee is working on the city's first new General Plan in 25 years.

August 23 - Daily Breeze

Underwater parking garages have been constructed in Europe, and Boston seems like the perfect opportunity to bring the idea to the United States.

August 23 - The Boston Globe

The American Society of Landscape Architects' list of podcasts for landscape architects is heavy on planning-related content.

August 23 - THE DIRT

A timely debate, as New York City debates a congestion pricing scheme proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and California looks for ways to reduce emissions from transportation.

August 23 - 100 Hours

Commute data for one of the nation's premier rail transit systems, revealed.

August 23 - Greater Greater Washington

While productivity improves in almost every sector of the U.S. economy, it's dropping quickly in the construction industry.

August 23 - The Economist

A total of $2.7 billion will be awarded to a potential list of 12 water storage projects, thanks to funding from California's Proposition 1, approved by voters in 2014.

August 23 - The Mercury News