The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Memphis hopes its coordinated action plan on blight can be a model for cities nationwide.

April 9 - How Housing Matters

Chicago has long struggled with segregation and great disparities between neighborhoods; to understand what's happening in its property markets, the city must be explored on a neighborhood level.

April 9 - Chicago Magazine

Non-profit developers are joining forces to increase their buying power in the pricey New York housing market.

April 9 - Next City

In Seattle, City Hall wants to open the neighborhood planning process to new demographics. The changes have rattled traditional neighborhood councils.

April 8 - Next City

Judging from a statistical analysis by Redfin, there is in fact a positive correlation between home values and transit access. But that only applies in areas where transit and walking are already common modes.

April 8 - City Observatory

If California is going to meet the new, steep emissions reductions required by a law passed last September, one of the most effective strategies will be to promote infill housing, according to a new report from University of California at Berkeley.

April 8 - Builder

Viewers installed throughout downtown Long Beach gives visitors a glimpse into the city's past.

April 8 - Modern Cities

Even if newly revised transportation legislation supported by Gov. Jerry Brown and Democratic leaders to raise fuel taxes and fees should pass into law, the funding mechanism may not prove sustainable in the long term.

April 8 - KPCC

The latest Chapter 11 in a familiar story.

April 7 - The Washington Post

St. Louis will have electric buses running around town for a week, but that doesn't mean the city's residents should expect a massive rollout of the buses anytime soon.

April 7 - St. Louis Post-Dispatch

San Diego provides a case study for how bus rapid transit sometimes fails to meet the standards befitting its name.

April 7 - Voice of San Diego

Despite its plaint and utilitarian exterior, Astorians knew they had something special in a former military building containing a large open interior free of support columns space with a domed lamella ceiling. Now, it's a center of the community.

April 7 - UrbDeZine

By summer, the empty and derelict land beneath the Southeast Expressway in Boston's South End will become and active, art-filled park.

April 7 - The Boston Globe

A new graphic novel has magic to stir blood.

April 7 - CityLab

There are lots of arguments available for people that want to oppose new housing projects, but what are a few guiding principles for framing a supportive and constructive housing conversation?

April 7 - Sightline Institute

Where aging infrastructure is concerned, most of us don't immediately think of old dams. But there are a lot of them. Environmental advocates want to see them go, and in recent years de-damming has picked up speed.

April 7 - Next City

The Center for Urban Pedagogy's latest tool provides an easy and fun way to explain a difficult but critical concept: floor area ratio.

April 7 - The Architect's Newspaper

John Metcalfe introduces the world to Jimmy, the transit riding jerk who will probably seem all-too familiar.

April 7 - CityLab

Backers hoped a soccer stadium would ease the pain of losing the St. Louis Rams to Los Angeles in 2016. Now St. Louis sports fans will have to go back to the drawing board.

April 6 - St. Louis Riverfront Times

Seattle's King County is home to an estimated 10,000 unsheltered homeless people. Local officials are trying to figure out how to raise the funds to address the crisis.

April 6 - KUOW