The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

The Plaza can behave as the community living room. Why is this so hard to get right in post-WWII U.S.?

June 3 - PlaceShakers

Washington D.C. must wrap up its consideration of the 2015 International Building Code by July. Adoption of the IBC could enable new types of density in the nation's capital.

June 3 - Greater Greater Washington

A lawsuit filed by Missouri state legislators finds fault with a plan to extend bond funding from the city's last NFL stadium project to help finance a new $985 million stadium located north of downtown along the city's waterfront.

June 3 - St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The state of North Carolina joins the roster of states working with the private sector to invest in highway infrastructure around growing urban areas.

June 3 - Infra Insight

As General Manager of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, Jeff Kightlinger is a veteran of the states' wet and dry cycles.

June 3 - VerdeXchange News

A newly opened section of the Chicago Riverwalk lets the public get up close and personal with the Chicago River. And there's more to come.

June 3 - Chi.Streetsblog

FEATURE

Amid growing skepticism, an international gathering examines the useful benefits for an age of critical urban challenges.

June 3 - Michael Mehaffy

Biology Professor Paul Ehrlich's 1968 book, "The Population Bomb," took America and the world by storm. The apocalyptic vision based of population outgrowing its resources appeared to make inherent sense.

June 3 - The New York Times - Retro Report

BLOG POST

How do you collect public comments on a web-based PDF planning document? It should be simple. But it isn't.

June 2 - Chris Steins

The writing is on the wall for what's left of the coal industry.

June 2 - Fusion

It was a beautiful weekend to hit the streets of Pittsburgh—and many did, for the Open Streets Pittsburgh event and the debut of Pittsburgh Bike Share.

June 2 - Pittsburg Post-Gazette

We're all familiar with the now ubiquitous Kickstarter campaigns, but what about some other tools to help crowdfund local retail and development?

June 2 - Community Builders

Improvements funded by the developer of the 73-story Wilshire Grand project will make Downtown Los Angeles' main thoroughfare a better place to walk, bike, and use public transit.

June 2 - Urbanize LA

If Lee has his way, San Francisco will join other cities like New York, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. by employing speed cameras to issue citations to offending motorists in school zones. But first he needs to find a legislator to draft a bill.

June 2 - San Francisco Chronicle

In exchange for the approval to build One Vanderbilt, a 63-story office tower adjacent to Grand Central Terminal, the developer will give the MTA $220 million for upgrades to entrances of the Metro-North Railroad and the terminal's subway entrances.

June 2 - The New York Times - N.Y. / Region

A new study indicates that the safest urban streets have lanes that measure 10-10.5 feet wide. Narrower and wider lanes have higher crash frequencies, and wider lanes have higher crash severity.

June 2 - Streetsblog USA

BLOG POST

Common planning practices create automobile-dependent communities where driving is convenient and other forms of travel are inefficient. It's time to recognize the value of transportation diversity.

June 2 - Todd Litman

According to an ACEEE report, Boston currently leads the way, with New York, Washington, DC, and San Francisco not far behind. Los Angeles, Washington, and Chicago show the most improvement since 2013.

June 2 - American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy

BLOG POST

It’s wise to search widely across time and space for good examples of processes and products for intercultural city building.

June 1 - Dean Saitta

According to Aaron M. Renn, left-leaning urbanists chafe against a regulatory culture their ideology supports. Favoring "regulation for thee but not for me," they want to bend the rules, but only for enterprises they like.

June 1 - City Journal