The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Good and bad news for followers of Brightline, a South Florida rail start-up. Service between West Palm Beach and Fort Lauderdale begins in July, with Miami soon thereafter, but opponents may hamper extension to Orlando.

March 15 - Palm Beach Post

The BART Perks pilot program was the first transit incentive program in the country.

March 15 - CityLab

Concerns about affordability and cultural identity are emerging in Mexican-American and African-American neighborhoods in Tucson.

March 15 - Arizona Public Media

A program under consideration by the Capital Crossroads Special Improvement District could be the envy of central business district's all over the country.

March 15 - The Columbus Dispatch

A massive mall, proposed for a 174-acre stretch of land that abuts the border between Miami-Dade and Broward counties, has so far breezed through approvals. "American Dream Miami" will still require political victories.

March 15 - Sun Sentinel

A new era of rental property management technology will have effects on both the landlord and the tenant side of the equation.

March 15 - Forbes

Here's a surprising anecdote from the real estate market: there's no right way to measure square footage.

March 14 - The Wall Street Journal

A bill with anti-gentrification goals would charge developers who intend to knock down homes along the city’s new bike trail.

March 14 - Chicago Tribune

2016 saw a 25 percent increase in bikeshare trips over the previous year, continuing a five-year trend of rapid growth, according to the National Association of City Transportation Officers.

March 14 - NACTO

The Mercury News issues a pointed critique of the public relations efforts at the California Department of Water Resources in the shadow of this winter’s Oroville Dam crisis.

March 14 - The Mercury News

Portland has built many new apartments in the city's core, and that seems to be slowing down rent growth in the area.

March 14 - The Oregonian

San Francisco Chronicle urban design critic John King reveals more than one layer of planning significance from a project proposed near one of the city's most prominent, but underutilized, intersections.

March 14 - The San Francisco Chronicle

New York trouble adds subversive quotes to the "If You See Something Say Something" signs in the New York Subway.

March 14 - Hyperallergic

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is treading a fine line between supporting the economy of oil-sands dependent western Canada and fighting climate change, as impossible as that might sound. His efforts were rewarded by the energy industry.

March 14 - CBC News

Transportation network companies cannot duplicate transit service in outlying communities, argues Ryan Young.

March 14 - The Daily Texan

Temporary installation is the first attempt to showcase possible improvements that could transform Biscayne Boulevard in Downtown Miami into street rivaling the Embarcadero in San Francisco

March 14 - Modern Cities

Another reason to hate the Monday after daylight-saving time goes into effect: a spike in the number of car crashes and traffic fatalities.

March 13 - Vox

Ironically, some of the greatest architecture of the past came from the most nefarious of sources: monarchies and dictatorships. Democratic design, though, can be bland and generic. What of design in our new undemocratic age?

March 13 - Common Edge

The networked sensors and signals in Ann Arbor give the city a coordinated way to respond to traffic.

March 13 - Wired

The Sacramento Bee follows-up a revealing report on lower income workers leaving California due largely to exorbitant housing costs with an editorial endorsing legislation by Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco to address the source of the problem.

March 13 - The Sacramento Bee