The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

The Presidio is, and will remain, a source of San Francisco's most contentious planning and design proposals. But the reason for the controversy isn't all bad, according to John King: "everyone sees their own potential paradise."

January 29 - San Francisco Chronicle

With the turnover of leadership in the Senate to Republicans in January, the only Keystone question was whether advocates had enough votes to override a promised presidential veto. Turned out they were unable to overcome the first filibuster of 2015.

January 29 - Politico Pro

MIT's You Are Here mapping and data visualization project has produced a map of income levels, as tracked by the routes of the Metro subway system in Washington D.C.

January 29 - The Washington Post

A new map from Mapbox visualizes traffic on all roads eligible for highway safety funds by combining data available through the Highway Performance Monitoring System on OpenStreetMap.

January 29 - MapBox

Times Square stakeholders have begun to raise the specter of "too much of a good thing," as the crowds flocking to Times Square threaten to squeeze the life out of the place.

January 29 - New York Times

While Washington D.C. and its surrounding counties is in the midst of a population, development, and infrastructure investment boom, the region farther south and west in the state of Virginia is bleeding population.

January 28 - Bristol Herald Courier

A guest column in the Dallas Morning News takes the Dallas political machine to task for delaying a new tree ordinance.

January 28 - The Dallas Morning News

In 20 years, dam removal has gone from a "fringe notion" to "wide acceptance." National Geographic explains how and why this sea change occurred.

January 28 - National Geographic

A columnist in St. Paul makes an argument in favor of zoning variances as a driver of incremental growth and economic development.

January 28 - Star Tribune

Milwaukee Alderman Joe Dudzik's arguments in opposition to a proposed streetcar project have been heard before.

January 28 - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

A survey of the quickly broadening reach of data about the movement of traffic reveals the next step necessary to achieve congestion nirvana: unfettered access to private cell phone data.

January 28 - Next City

Melissa Bruntlett pens a thoughtful essay on the importance of female involvement in urbanism issues and activities.

January 28 - modacity

A mere day after the Interior Department announced it would permanently block drilling in much of the Arctic Refuge by designating it as wilderness, it proposed allowing drilling in the Gulf, along Atlantic coast, and surprisingly, offshore Alaska.

January 28 - McClatchy Washington Bureau

A recent spate of articles pronounced the resurrection of the suburb, so CityLab laid the false dichotomies that drive such proclamations to rest.

January 28 - CityLab

What was hyped as one of the worst Nor'easters to hit New York City left Central Park with less than six inches of snow. However, New England and Long Island were not spared. NYC subway, buses, and rail shut down, and driving bans took effect.

January 28 - The New York Times

Two proposals for library makeovers in Brooklyn tie into a larger narrative about development, and architecture, in New York City.

January 27 - New York Times

And an update from Codes Study about the 600 places that really are upping their game with form-based codes.

January 27 - PlaceShakers

The law enforcement results are in from the first year of Vision Zero policy in New York City.

January 27 - StreetsBlog NYC

In our work to build communities of opportunity where low-income people and people of color can thrive, we must acknowledge that income is how you get out of poverty, assets are how you stay out.

January 27 - Rooflines

A guest column on the Saporta Report offers a reminder of the many critical public needs that compete with transportation funding for state dollars.

January 27 - Saporta Report