The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

The Philadelphia City Planning Commission has been awarded the American Planning Association's 2016 "National Planning Excellence Award for a Planning Agency."

March 31 - Planning Magazine

As of Saturday, Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost island, was connected to Tokyo by the newest addition to Japan's iconic Shinkansen bullet trains. The 513-mile route includes 33.4 miles in "the world's deepest operational main-line rail tunnel."

March 31 - The Telegraph

The idea that there isn't enough parking around Cleveland's FirstMerit Convention Center, site of the 2016 Republican National Convention, is likely debatable, but local officials are looking for solutions to the problem regardless.

March 31 - Cleveland.com

Chicago has set lofty goals to become a leader in the next-generation technology and infrastructure of the global future.

March 31 - World Business Chicago

The city of Austin has approved land use regulation changes on one of those traditional hot button planning issues: small-lot developments.

March 31 - Curbed Austin

With underground parking spaces costing $37,000 and more to build in Chicago, it might come as a shock that a recent study found much more parking supply than demand around the city's apartment buildings.

March 31 - Chicago Tribune

The Housing Authority of New Orleans has approved a new policy on criminal background checks that will remove the ban on residents with criminal records.

March 31 - The Times-Picayune

A new website and a pair of public meetings kick off the planning process for an East-West bus rapid transit (BRT) route in Milwaukee County.

March 31 - Urban Milwaukee

Just a single day with D.C. Metro was bad, but it's possible the closures were just getting started.

March 31 - The Washington Post

Seattle's beloved Pike Place offers a case study in how careful governance builds the foundation for flourishing places.

March 30 - Brookings

A "TOD Calculator" developed by a Chicago non-profit promises to deliver quantifiable, digestible data on the community impacts of transit-oriented development.

March 30 - Data-Smart City Solutions

Uncertainty as to whether cap-and-trade funding would continue past 2020 and opposition to the initial operating segment leaving out the city of Merced were two issues that arose during a Assembly Transportation Committee hearing of the plan.

March 30 - Fresno Bee

Boston is the latest of a growing number of cities that could end the use of cash to may for transit tickets. The change does not come without some concern for riders.

March 30 - The Boston Globe

The city of Portland is considering an expansion of parking requirements in Northwest Portland, much to the chagrin of advocates who predict the new requirements will make housing more expensive.

March 30 - Bike Portland

Seeking new approaches to a growing homelessness problem, Sacramento officials recently toured the "tent cities" of Seattle.

March 30 - The Planning Report

Los Angeles County's Community Parks and Recreation Plans (CPRPs) are an evolved methodology to process a broad range of data to better site and design community parks. CPRPs are explained by L.A. County park planner Clement Lau

March 30 - UrbDeZine

With the key assumption that more of Philadelphia needs to see the benefits of the recent wave of investment that has come to the city's urban core, politicians at varying levels of government are considering multiple policy options.

March 30 - Philadelphia

618 form-based codes made it on the latest Codes Study. The authors are requesting your additions to the update.

March 30 - PlaceShakers

Residents of suburbs located east of St. Paul in Minnesota have coalesced to oppose the Gateway Corridor Gold Line project, which would connect 12 stops along a bus rapid transit line.

March 29 - Pioneer Press

A new whitepaper outlines solutions for improving the resiliency and sustainability of coastal cities around the world—using Red Hook, Brooklyn as a case study.

March 29 - BASF Corporation