The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

BLOG POST

Trust between the public and government agencies is low, and democracies are paralyzed without it. How can community engagement help restore trust? This post outlines the challenge and a process for solving it.

September 8 - Dave Biggs

The de Blasio Administration's next big rezoning push will occur in the southwest Bronx.

September 8 - New York YIMBY

A tradition as old as the Planning Department itself: proposing reforms to the planning and development approvals process in the city of Los Angeles.

September 8 - Urbanize LA

Three proposals, that is, save one. David Alpert wants to know why the public isn't considering another option for delivering necessary repairs to the D.C. Metro system.

September 8 - Greater Greater Washington

A decision to privatize the employment of drivers and maintenance workers, especially for the system's buses, could lead to a wave of layoffs.

September 8 - The Boston Globe

Results showing progress in the fight to end traffic fatalities have disappeared, just like some of the safety projects installed under the banner of Vision Zero.

September 8 - New York Post

The reservoir on the Colorado located above the Grand Canyon is dropping fast. A new study proposes a contingency plan to reduce the risk of catastrophe.

September 7 - Arizona Daily Star

Toronto Chef Planner Jennifer Keesmaat describes how she prepared her children for an old-fashioned commute to and from school.

September 7 - The Toronto Star

BLOG POST

The conventional planning wisdom seems to be that long drives are less beneficial to well-being than a short walk. But what about other commuting options?

September 7 - Michael Lewyn

The Office of Extraordinary Innovation at Los Angeles Metro is just over a year old. KPCC checks in.

September 7 - KPCC

There's a physical cost to rising rents, and Oakland residents are paying the price.

September 7 - SFGate

Joe Mathews of Zócalo Public Square views with a great deal of skepticism the urban growth boundaries the voters of Ventura County adjacent to Los Angeles County have enacted since 1995 due to the lack of infill. Another measure is on the ballot.

September 7 - San Francisco Chronicle

The service would operate through Waze, and take a different approach than Uber or Lyft.

September 7 - Ars Technica

A median-income family in the L.A. metro area spends 73 percent of their income on housing and transportation alone. L.A. Metro explains why and how they're taking huge steps to get affordable housing on land they own—where it will do the most good.

September 7 - Shelterforce/Rooflines

A year of political obsession with walls along national borders has Chuck Wolfe contemplating city gates of the past and present. Using the foil of proposed border walls, he examines the historic role of city gates, modern gateways, and more.

September 7 - The Huffington Post

FEATURE

An op-ed rejects a notion of urbanism that would find a home in Disneyland, for a version of urbanism that deploys the best efficiencies and benefits of the built environment.

September 7 - Gerhard Mayer

What makes for a healthy place? Kaid Benfield points to density of dwellings, intersections and public transport, plus access to parks.

September 6 - PlaceShakers

The state of California stepped into to make it easier for local governments to approve permissive regulations of accessory dwelling units.

September 6 - Los Angeles Times

New rules for commercial drone aviation went into effect on August 29, clearing the way for rapid adoption of the technology.

September 6 - Associated Press via The Dallas Morning News

That is, not very well.

September 6 - The Economist