The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Trump plans to authorize $137 billion in tax credits to private construction companies to build projects with tolls and other future cash streams to them to spur building and the economy.

November 7 - The Washington Post

Communities in McClennan County, Texas, are working together to plan for a new water supply infrastructure that relies less on groundwater from the depleted Trinity Aquifer.

November 7 - The Architect's Newspaper

A long-delayed decision by the National Park Service and the Federal Highway Administration removes the final regulatory obstacle for the construction of a new Metro station in Alexandria, Virginia.

November 7 - The Washington Post

Climate change is the new reality, and building owners and developers that want to remain in business need to adapt. So says a recent Urban Land Institute (ULI) report that calls last year's Paris agreement "a potential game changer."

November 7 - Doggerel

Creating adaptive, sustainable communities may require rethinking some planning basics.

November 7 - Denver Business Journal

The new district may be both preservationist and political.

November 7 - The Architect's Newspaper

The city wants both public uses to be housed in "eye-catching works of architecture."

November 7 - Chicago Tribune

While Florida may well determine who becomes the next president, renewable energy advocates are worried about a measure on the ballot that will have far-reaching effects on solar power should it pass.

November 7 - Grist

Today's suburbs have changed dramatically from a generation ago. Younger, more diverse, and more liberal, they are "trending more Democratic." The PBS News Hour explores this critical demographic shift five days before Election Day.

November 7 - PBS NewsHour

BLOG POST

In Joel Kotkin's new book The Human City, he argues that suburbanization promotes higher birthrates. But this policy doesn't seem to have worked so far.

November 7 - Michael Lewyn

In San Diego, a battle is taking place between residents of historic Barrio Logan and proponents of an NFL stadium which threatens it. Actor Mario Lopez has been hired to sell the stadium proposal.

November 6 - UrbDeZine

While billed as an "anti-fracking initiative," Measure Z in Monterey County, the 4th-largest oil-producing county in California, does far more. It bans new oil drilling and requires the cleaning of wastewater from current drilling operations.

November 6 - KSBW

The National Park Service has launched the Puma Profiles, making it easier to explore the lives of the city's largest collection of feral residents.

November 6 - KPCC

Small towns can teach big cities about effective roadway designs.

November 6 - Modern Cities

It got more expensive to neglect properties in Washington, D.C. this week.

November 6 - Washington City Paper

BLOG POST

On November 8, voters in the nation’s northwest corner will decide on I-732, which would create a carbon tax swap and potentially become a new model for fighting climate change.

November 5 - Pete Sullivan

A test of a "fully-operational" Hyperloop transportation system is scheduled to take place next week in the United Arab Emirates.

November 5 - ArchDaily

Santa Monica is the first city in California to adopt an ordinance requiring new single-family homes be built to net-zero energy standards.

November 5 - Construction Dive

The Washington Post opines that the best way to end Metro's 'death spiral' is to have the federal government take it over, similar to the way it intervened in the district's fiscal meltdown in the 1990s or Puerto Rico's debt crisis this summer.

November 5 - The Washington Post - Editorial

A new United Nations Secretary-General's High-level Advisory Group on Sustainable Transport identifies policies that can result in inclusive and equitable growth, social development, protection of the global environment and ecosystems.

November 5 - Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform