The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

When most people think of New York City, says CUNY planning professor and activist Tom Angotti, they think of Manhattan. This excessive focus on a narrow slice of the greater New York metropolitan area needs to be reconsidered.

December 1 - Satellite Magazine

Virginia's new 3.5% wholesales sales tax on motor vehicle fuels is set to increase to 5.1% on Jan.1, not because Congress failed to raise the two-decades-old federal gas tax but for something entirely unrelated to transportation: online sales taxes.

December 1 - The Washington Post

FEATURE

The South Park BID and LA Sustainability Collaborative came together to organize the "Green Alleys in South Park Visioning Report," with plans to connect its next steps in sustainable action to city, development, and third-party projects.

November 30 - Jessica Lall

A new report by Deloitte looks at the way government could be re-structured by 2020 due to influences of business and technology.

November 30 - Fast Co.Exist

Although the holidays cause millions more drivers to hit the road, delays in traffic may also stem from the congestion of goods movements by truck, both locally and across the country.

November 30 - The Brookings Institution

A new type of public workout station harnesses the energy from people exercising and inserts it into the local energy network.

November 30 - Inhabitat

Metropolitan Atlanta accounts for half of the pedestrian fatalities in Georgia. One pedestrian advocacy group is doing the legwork to begin the process of improving the city's pedestrian infrastructure.

November 30 - PEDS

Researchers continue to verify the health benefits of walkable neighborhoods. Most recently researchers at Kansas University found benefits that communities can use to ensure the quality of life of aging residents.

November 29 - Kansas University

Architecture and real estate often fail to recognize their inexorable connections. A new website draws out the themes linking the two fields.

November 29 - The Architect's Newspaper

Michael Anderson reports on the new bike-pedestrian plan for the Portland International Airport.

November 29 - Bike Portland

Jonathan Waterman describes a kayaking trip into Lake Powell—the "reservoir formed by the confluence of the San Juan and the Colorado Rivers and the holding power of Glen Canyon Dam" above the Grand Canyon.

November 29 - National Geographic

A Treehugger column picks up on the historic idea of the "Linear City" as a counter point to the current pressures to build up in cities around the world.

November 29 - Treehugger

A new project by the Nature Conservancy maps the impact of natural infrastructure—often found well outside the city limits—on urban water supplies.

November 28 - Next City

In a city as hot in the summers as Houston, the idea of a swimming hole probably seems pretty appealing. Can an idea floated in a local newspaper column and backed by interested and passionate locals come to fruition?

November 28 - Houston Chronicle

Part infographic and part diary, the weather radials project tracks the weather for every day in 2013.

November 28 - The Washington Post - Wonkblog

Toronto will begin rolling out a program to narrow traffic lanes on the city's streets. The new lane policy, recently completed, was in the works for the past year.

November 28 - The Globe and Mail

Some people just can't find beauty any where in the world—even while visiting the world's most iconic buildings.

November 28 - Citymetric

Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto has proposed a new fee on landlords to help enforce scofflaws. An editorial by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, however, argues that the math behind the fee doesn’t add up.

November 27 - Pittsburg Post-Gazette

Cincinnati currently stands at 45th in the nation in bike commuting share. But the city is bike commute share is leading the nation in its rate of adoption.

November 27 - Next City

The Toronto Star picks up on the Urban Land Institute's Emerging Trends in Real Estate report, finding the trend of urbanization in Canada to reflect the trend in the United States.

November 27 - The Toronto Star