The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Since a March opening greeted with fanfare for its on-time and under budget delivery, local business are crediting the new light rail line connecting Downtown Seattle to Capitol Hill with big sales bumps.

April 7 - KUOW

A lack of Congressional approval almost killed a controversial dam removal project on the Klamath River in Oregon and California. The states and the Interior Department have found a way to proceed.

April 7 - Associated Press via The Register-Guard

Florida Governor Rick Scott signed an omnibus transportation bill earlier this week that makes a dozen changes to the work of the Florida Department of Transportation.

April 7 - Mass Transit

Urban design critic John King’s aversion to LinkedIn’s new office space points to long-standing tensions in San Francisco.

April 7 - San Francisco Chronicle

The other day, a new Shinkansen bullet line was added in Japan, the first to operate high-speed rail in 1964. The U.S. has yet to build is first line. More troubling is the decay we've seen in the relatively new metro lines, like D.C. Metro and BART.

April 7 - The Conversation

Berkeley's Resilience Strategy is one of the first in the nation, and one of the first work products of the Rockefeller Foundation's 100 Resilient Cites network.

April 7 - Berkeley Patch

A new federal housing program is unique in its approach but all too common in its scope.

April 7 - CityLab

Pritzker Prize winner Thom Mayne and leading New Urbanist planner Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk squared off in a debate about the future of Baltimore.

April 7 - ASLA The Dirt

An ambitious proposal to build seven new homeless shelters around the District of Columbia, with a price tag of $660 million, has been attacked on several fronts.

April 7 - The Washington Post

An article in Quartz laments the underwhelming results of a generation of gadgets intended to make houses technologically enabled.

April 6 - Quartz

There's good news and bad news in a new report on the state of transportation infrastructure in the state of Illinois.

April 6 - Chi.Streetsblog

The Kansas City Land Bank has the funding to back up plans to begin transforming blighted, vacant lots into thriving groves of poplar trees.

April 6 - The Kansas City Star

The bus rapid transit route connecting Downtown Detroit with Ann Arbor, or also the Detroit Metro Airport, is under consideration as part of a master planning effort by the Regional Transit Agency.

April 6 - Deadline Detroit

Juno, a new transportation network company launching to a small group of testers in New York this month, is hoping to shake up the business model adopted by its predecessors in the field.

April 6 - The Washington Post

The U.S Department of Transportation has announced a competitive grant funding opportunity designed specifically for bus transit.

April 6 - Mass Transit

Economist Jed Kolko's recent study on how the lack in affordability of cities determines who's moving there, whose moving out, and how these changes are shaping cities and suburbs. His paper is the basis for several articles by leading urban writers.

April 6 - The Atlantic

The dangerous absurdity of building a national—or a community—to-do list around fear, resentment, and wishful thinking

April 6 - PlaceShakers

It's the details of transit apps that matter to users, so the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (Metro) just made a change of technology provider that will help make it easier to accurately predict bus arrival times.

April 6 - DCist

The city of Charlottesville, home to the University of Virginia, has approved a controversial measure to begin charging for on-street parking in the city's downtown.

April 6 - C-Ville Weekly

The city of Austin is hoping to avoid a "piecemeal, haphazard" approach to redevelopment in the South Central waterfront district.

April 5 - Austin American-Statesman