The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

In a region with a full calendar of transit construction projects and high hopes for a positive stream of news, a premier and historic project has not gone as smoothly as hoped.

April 10 - The Denver Post

The nation's only state-run cap-and-trade program survived a legal challenge by the California Chamber of Commerce and the libertarian Pacific Legal Foundation when a state court of appeal ruled 2-1 that the program doesn't amount to an illegal tax.

April 10 - Los Angeles Times

Light, airy, and filled with art, the new subway stations for the first phase of the long awaited Q subway extension, i.e., the Second Avenue subway, breaks away from the mold of other NYC subway stations.

April 10 - UrbDeZine

If Republicans at the federal level succeed in pushing more transportation funding to the state level, more states will have to consider the path of states like Rhode Island, Texas, and, now, Massachusetts.

April 10 - The Boston Globe

The Urban Institute and the Metropolitan Planning Council studied the social and economic impacts of segregation in the Chicago region.

April 10 - Chicago Tonight

On April 6, the Senate and Assembly passed a comprehensive transportation funding package that it had been unable to do for years, thanks to much deal-making by Gov. Jerry Brown. The gas tax will increase by 12 cents per gallon on November 1.

April 9 - Planetizen

Much talked about Trump infrastructure bill has yet to be written, but the president's failure to pass a health care bill in the House has drawn Congress watchers' attention to the Freedom Caucus and the impact they may have an infrastructure bill.

April 9 - The Hill

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