The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

A public service announcement on behalf of renters priced out of the housing market: "Talk to your friends about zoning."

February 14 - Slate

Public transit agencies don't normally get the kind of fine-grained location and navigation data made possible by tracking phones. London got temporary access to that info at the end of 2016, however.

February 14 - Gizmodo UK

In order to stop new development in areas previously consumed by forest fires, Spanish firefighters are using a little known law that prohibits new building's within a 500 meter (0.3 miles) radius of a cemetery.

February 14 - The Independent (UK)

One of the most enthusiastic advocates for the urban resurgence, Richard Florida turns his attention to the segregation, inequality, and housing shortages that threaten to tear cities apart in The New Urban Crisis.

February 13 - California Planning & Development Report

After decades of sprawl, Memphis begins to reconsider its growth pattern and chart a new course towards fiscal sustainability.

February 13 - Modern Cities

California's GOP congressional delegation has written the U.S. DOT asking them to delay a vital $647 million grant needed to electrify the 55-mile, San Francisco-to-San Jose commuter line on which 92 diesel-powered commuter trains operate daily.

February 13 - The Mercury News

A bill introduced in the Utah State Legislature would curtail the UTA's ability to partner in new transit oriented development projects.

February 13 - The Salt Lake Tribune

Los Angeles has a heat problem, and it's getting worse. But the Mayor's Office is taking on the challenge.

February 13 - Los Angeles Times

A new design process will take an initial step toward unleashing the unrealized potential of Irishtown Bend—located along the Cuyahoga River in the heart of Cleveland.

February 13 - The Cleveland Plain Dealer

The city of St. Louis is in the midst of an intense political debate—with mayoral consequences—on the subject of development incentives, which critics say just help the rich get richer.

February 13 - St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The end of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency may not come from the hands of President Trump or Scott Pruitt, the nominee to head the agency, but from a bill introduced Feb. 3 titled, "To terminate the Environmental Protection Agency."

February 13 - Fox Business

A symbol of urbanist affluence is getting its first reality check. 2017 has not been kind to brock and mortar retailers.

February 13 - Bloomberg

This research shows that renters in high-cost cities can be just as prone to NIMBYism as homeowners, even as they theoretically support more housing. This is housing supply's collective action problem.

February 13 - Joint Center for Housing Studies

The Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) released a statement on the Trump Administration executive order that enacted a 90-day suspension of visas and other immigration benefits to all nationals of seven Middle Eastern countries.

February 12 - ACSP

An in-depth look into the political controversies stirred up in the Boston neighborhood of Jamaica Plain as a result of a proposed, density-adding zoning plan.

February 12 - The Boston Globe

This start-up uses an AI to comb through Google Street View images, matching users with cities that fit their "lifestyle preferences."

February 12 - Quartz

Yikes, Washington. What's the deal with all those sad place names?

February 12 - KUOW

It all depends on one thing: How much are travelers willing to pay for a shorter trip?

February 12 - City Observatory

New York plans to drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions from public housing.

February 11 - Next City

An article for Planning magazine readies the planning profession for the largest peacetime activity of the federal government. All indications are that the 2020 Census will include unprecedented changes.

February 11 - Planning