The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Some of the San Francisco neighborhoods with the worst air quality are also the San Francisco neighborhoods with the most development.

September 6 - San Francisco Chronicle

Pedestrian blaming won't make pedestrians any safer, but cities are trying it anyways.

September 6 - Streetsblog USA

A 50-acre complex called Pullman Crossings could bring new jobs numbering in the thousands to the South Side of Chicago.

September 6 - Chicago Tribune

The Governors Highway Safety Association, in partnership with State Farm Insurance, has released surprising data about bike safety.

September 6 - Seattle Transit Blog

Evidence that the Trump's Administration's ongoing "dismantling of the administrative state" is having an effect at the Census Bureau—with potentially disastrous consequences for governments of all shapes and sizes.

September 6 - Brookings

The Pistons and the Red Wings have a new home in Downtown Detroit—bringing all four of Detroit's professional sports teams into the same neighborhood.

September 6 - Detroit Free Press

As Houston and East Texas recover from Hurricane Harvey, an even stronger hurricane has formed in the Atlantic Ocean, headed to the Caribbean Sea, and likely Florida by this weekend, though there is uncertainty where it goes next.

September 6 - Guardian

Mom and Pop Make Way for Institutional Investors in the Landlord Business

September 5 - The New York Times

NASA Ames wants to add a lot of housing to a 45-acre site at Moffett Field in the Silicon Valley. The new housing would give NASA employees more housing options in an expensive and impacted market.

September 5 - The Mercury News

With the media rightfully pointing to Houston's sprawling urban development patterns that exacerbated the epic flooding caused by Hurricane Harvey, Paul Krugman also finds fault with cities where urban development is too tightly regulated.

September 5 - The New York Times - Opinion

As the largest commercial property holder int he United States, the federal government's development plans can contribute to the economic and cultural success of communities.

September 5 - Governing

There's an economic cost for making pedestrians wait at stoplights, according to a new study.

September 5 - Aukland Now

The suburban experiment of Clarksburg, Maryland hasn't been totally successful, according to this article, but it still offers many lessons for other communities like it.

September 5 - Greater Greater Washington

Most of the few people that are jumping fares on the New York subway are doing so out of necessity. One branch of the city government has decided that busting fare evaders isn't worth the trouble.

September 5 - Marketplace

While any one event can not be attributed to global warming, climate scientists have long acknowledged a connection to extreme weather. Pruitt, a climate denier, dismisses any such connection with the amount of rainfall from Hurricane Harvey.

September 5 - Talking Points Memo

Uber Movement makes publicly available data for two billion trips taken on the transportation network company. Uber says the data should benefit urban planners.

September 5 - TechCrunch

The author of the "The Rise of the Creative Class" and the "New Urban Crisis" says cities have had their moment.

September 5 - The New York Times

Reports of the death of brick and mortar retail have been greatly exaggerated, according to a new analysis.

September 4 - St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Protestors are placing their bodies between bike paths and car traffic to make a point about transportation planning.

September 4 - CityLab

Massachusetts officials will consider zoning changes for an area of Boston's waterfront until November—well beyond the expected due date in August.

September 4 - The Boston Globe