The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

A federal infusion of cash could help create more affordable housing for seniors, but many still struggle to afford housing.

March 6 - Morningstar

The mortality rate among people experiencing homelessness jumped by 203 percent between 2011 and 2020.

March 5 - Governing

The $77.3 million new park offers unprecedented public access to the water’s edge for the Wilmington community where 18% of the total land area is taken up by oil refineries — almost 3.5 times more space than is dedicated to green space.

March 5 - The Architect's Newspaper

Record vacancy rates and the high cost of borrowing money are fueling a commercial real estate crisis in downtown Chicago.

March 5 - Bloomberg CityLab

Researchers looked at the carbon footprint of urban farming versus conventional, and the results were surprising.

March 5 - Business Insider

The region is seeing higher rates of road deaths in part due to larger vehicles, high speed limits, and inadequate pedestrian infrastructure.

March 5 - High Country News

A ‘best practices’ manual guides accessibility on streets and sidewalks, but remains legally unenforceable.

March 5 - Streetsblog USA

The city sold seven properties as part of an effort to revive blighted sites and encourage housing production.

March 5 - Smart Cities Dive

BLOG POST

Public transit plays a unique and important role in an efficient and equitable transportation system. Planners must communicate the benefits that public transit provides and respond to ill-informed critics.

March 5 - Todd Litman

For shared mobility to succeed, systems must tap into the connectivity and funding potential offered by closer collaboration with public transit.

March 4 - GovTech

An analysis of California transit employees found a high rate of burnout among operators who face unpredictable work schedules, high housing costs, and occasional violence.

March 4 - Streetsblog California

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors just approved a motion to extend and expand an agreement with the L.A. Unified School District for the use of recreational facilities at Walnut Park Elementary School.

March 4 - Supervisor Janice Hahn

A new study reveals that if California could collect and treat more stormwater in cities, it could provide enough water to supply a quarter of the state’s urban population.

March 4 - Cal Matters

BLOG POST

Regional transit coordination provides the best transit experience in an urban area. It enables better, more affordable transit which in turn improves ridership. After 50 years of experience in Europe, the U.S. should finally embrace the concept.

March 4 - World Transport Policy and Practice

FEATURE

Parking shapes every element of the urban environment, often to the detriment of a place. Why do we subsidize public parking as a public good, and how can we move forward?

March 4 - David Mepham

A new report says states are creating a “climate time bomb” by spending more than half of federal infrastructure dollars on highway resurfacing and expansion over transit and passenger rail.

March 4 - The Guardian

Jacqueline Patterson has dedicated her career to intersectional approaches to systems change and social and environmental justice.

March 4 - Time Magazine

To date, no loans have closed through a federal program meant to spur office-to-residential conversions.

March 3 - Bloomberg CityLab

Green infrastructure can help prevent flooding and replenish groundwater supplies, preventing subsidence that makes land sink.

March 3 - Wired

The key bus corridor serves over 37,000 bus riders daily.

March 3 - WBUR