The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

The Obama Administration's Department of the Interior released their report on coal mining on federal lands just days before the Trump team takes office.

January 18 - The New York Times

Paris's most tourist-friendly neighborhoods are getting less dense: falling fertility rates, rising costs, and home sharing are all suspected as possible culprits.

January 18 - Quartz

Access to healthcare and city or suburban lifestyles seem to be tied to a longer life.

January 18 - Vox

If built, new protected bike lanes in Culver City, California would connect train riders to walkable downtown commercial areas.

January 17 - KPCC

The "Monitoring Global Urban Expansion Program" gathers and analyzes data on 200 cities around the world. The "Atlas of Urban Expansion" presents the program's preliminary results.

January 17 - Atlas of Urban Expansion

There is more than one new connection to LAX and the region's rail networks in the works.

January 17 - San Gabriel Valley Tribune

When nature is integrated into urbanism, wellness surges. Hazel Borys looks at the benefits.

January 17 - PlaceShakers

Gainesville turns contaminated land into a contemporary public greenspace to serve as the city's “Central Park."

January 17 - Modern Cities

The history of the Chicago Cultural Center, "the nation's first and most comprehensive free municipal cultural venue," offers insight into the shifting relationships between culture, politics, and money in the third-largest city in the United States.

January 17 - Soft City

As seas rise, San Francisco is looking to shore up its costal protection against earthquakes and extreme weather events.

January 17 - San Francisco Chronicle

FEATURE

According to this op-ed, the city of Los Angeles is implementing a sweeping, yet almost completely unpublicized, effort to give historic status to tens-of-thousands of homes and properties across the city, without ever telling anyone about it.

January 17 - Daniel Freedman

In his continuing look at places people can exercise - other than the gym - LA park planner Clement Lau writes about the popularity of indoor malls in winter climes for exercising adults and children.

January 17 - UrbDeZine

BLOG POST

Today’s "Eco" or "Green" Urbanism movement has ancient, cross-cultural roots. This history is worth contemplating for lessons relevant to sustainable planning and design.

January 17 - Dean Saitta

2017 will be a big year for transit openings around North America. What will come in the years to follow has a lot to do with the Trump Administration.

January 16 - the transport politic

The Exchange House will open in February, offering a hostel and much more for the immigrant communities of Akron's North Hill neighborhood.

January 16 - Cleveland.com

A timber company is nearing the end of its deal to log the Port Gamble Forest, so local preservationists are raising money to protect the forest from development.

January 16 - The Seattle Times

So far four cities in California require solar panels on all new residential construction, with San Francisco as the most populous example. A proposed law would expand that requirement to the rest of the state.

January 16 - San Francisco Chronicle

A bill proposed by a Republican lawmaker in North Dakota will shift forgive motorists any liability if they to run over pedestrians "negligently" occupying a freeway.

January 16 - Bismark Tribune

The country's first "clean coal" facility has also been described as "the world's largest post-combustion carbon capture system."

January 16 - The Washington Post

How did Vienna, Austria, substantially reduce car trips while increasing bicycling and trips taken by public transportation over 25 years? A new paper published in the International Journal of Sustainable Transportation provides answers.

January 16 - International Journal of Sustainable Transportation