The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

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

The popular navigation app Waze includes a feature that rewards users for revealing the location of police officers. A debate over the public safety impacts of that feature is gaining traction, and some police officers want the feature removed.

January 27 - Fusion

An informal survey of transit ridership data reveals that Philadelphia's SEPTA has the highest percentage of women riders. But what does that data say about SEPTA and transit in general?

January 27 - PlanPhilly

The greater Bay Area is enjoying a substantial increase in road maintenance funding from local measures, like bonds, city and county sales taxes, and development fees, part of a growing trend in compensating for a shortage of state gas tax funds.

January 27 - Inside Bay Area.com

Setting off a political firestorm in the words of one journalist, President Obama proposed to designate most of the pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as wilderness, angering congressional Republicans.

January 27 - The Wall Street Journal