The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

The community's hard work has helped Flint planners take an inventory of its building stock, as well as secure needed funding from the federal government.

September 8 - Center for Community Progress

Faced with an uptick in roadway fatalities, Oregon is looking at how to increase safety. But it's concentrating on highways while arterials actually account for the region's most severe crashes.

September 8 - City Observatory

The city of Spokane is piling large boulders where homeless people used to sleep. Critics are calling the city's actions inhumane.

September 8 - KUOW

For every Pittsburgh or Cleveland success story, there's a story waiting to be told in smaller cities like Gary and Lowell.

September 8 - At Lincoln House

How do we disrupt the cycle of rebuilding things exactly as they were before—if slightly hardened—after increasingly powerful weather events?

September 8 - PlaceShakers

Columbus has spent the first year since its selection as the $50 million Smart Cities Challenge grant recipient devoted to planning and research. The grant has also proven a very enticing fundraising tool.

September 8 - Columbus Business First

Building Design (BD) a British architecture publication, has announced the "winner" of the competition to decide the ugliest new building of the year.

September 8 - Building Design

The Ford Motor Company picks a side in the traffic safety debate.

September 7 - Ford

The city of Walnut Creek, located in the East San Francisco Bay Area, will soon gain 600 new, transit-adjacent apartments and a whole lot of parking.

September 7 - The Mercury News

A Better Block installation took over the streets of Kenmoore in Akron, Ohio last weekend.

September 7 - Akron Beacon Journal

Since the beginning of September, 400 employees have left the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The reduced staffing levels are by design.

September 7 - The Scientist

Good fire news from Oregon offers some relief from several weeks of scary environmental news from around the country.

September 7 - Willamette Week

The strange world projects exempted from the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act got a little stranger this week.

September 7 - Los Angeles Times

FEATURE

After accepting nearly 200 nominees for consideration, we're asking for votes to determine the "Most Influential Urbanists" of all time.

September 7 - Planetizen

Soon there could be a second cable-stayed bridge connecting Detroit, Michigan and Windsor, Canada, running alongside the existing Ambassador Bridge and owned by the same private entity.

September 7 - Detroit Free Press

Rural counties and cities around the United States are figuring out that it pays to do business with renewable energy companies.

September 7 - The Wall Street Journal

If you could bring one building back from the wrecking balls of the past, what would it be?

September 7 - The Conversation

In the past, stormwater management has been about flood control. The future of stormwater, however, is in capturing, treating, and recharging water supply, according to this article.

September 6 - Maven's Notebook

There has been a lot of speculation about the motivations of Millennials as they enter the workforce and the real estate market. The Pew Research Center starts with the facts.

September 6 - Pew Research Center

Bikeshare has been a breeze, for the most part, in Washington, D.C. But the District Department of Transportation is making room for innovation anyways.

September 6 - WAMU