The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

High quality, high altitude images of that marvel of modern engineering: the freeway interchange.

July 24 - Politico Magazine

A map for good reads and long drives to new places.

July 24 - Atlas Obscura

Could something as simple of the material selected for a residential tower prove the "antidote to suburban blandness"? A Parisian suburb thinks so.

July 23 - Frame

According to the Streetsblog, one of the most transit-rich states in the country squanders the potential benefits of its infrastructure by surrounding stations with sprawling residential communities.

July 23 - Streetsblog USA

Into an active development environment, and the resulting heightened pitch of development controversies, comes a new app from the city of Seattle that allows the public to track development projects.

July 23 - Puget Sound Business Journal

Limitations of data collection mean many questions about housing consumption simply cannot be answered.

July 23 - Housing Perspectives

A publicly available web tool allows access to maps that overlay environmental impacts and the populations they impact (or the populations that manage to avoid such impacts, for that matter).

July 23 - Smithsonian Magazine

A housing development in Houston's Near Northside has made a remarkable commitment to developing affordable units to populations at-risk of being pushed out by gentrification.

July 23 - The Urban Edge

It's easier to install bike lanes when the country is run by a dictator.

July 23 - Fast Co.Exist

We look at what happened in the Senate on Tuesday when the six-year DRIVE Act, relying on a variety of non-user fee revenue mechanisms to finance the Highway Trust Fund shortfall for three years, failed a procedural vote, and where it goes next.

July 23 - The Washington Post

This story broke, moved toward City Council action, then broke again—all in a New York minute.

July 23 - New York Times

After a stunning financial turnaround and with new political support, MARTA is proposing a massive expansion of commuter rail, with rail links from Atlanta into Fulton and DeKalb counties.

July 23 - Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Some people call it a road-building program. Others call it "an all out war on urbanism."

July 22 - Politico

The city of Philadelphia's Doors and Windows Ordinance applied the Broken Windows Theory to positive results.

July 22 - Pacific Standard

The politics of parking aren't expected to change in the upcoming Houston mayoral election. But an op-ed in the Houston Chronicle is willing to mess with the third rail.

July 22 - Houston Chronicle

A recent op-ed by ULI Foundation Governor and developer John McNellis argues that too many cities are forcing mixed-use developments into neighborhoods, enabling vacancies and blight in the process.

July 22 - Urban Land Magazine

A $250 million project, eight years in the making, returned inpatient hospital care to the neighborhoods of South Los Angeles.

July 22 - Los Angeles Times

The Nashville Metro Transit Authority recently released a "State of the MTA" report, detailing the system's need for additional funding to improve in pace with the needs of a growing populace.

July 22 - The Tennessean

Suburban office parks are achieving the status of ghost towns in the Washington, D.C. area.

July 22 - The Washington Post

The legislature came very close to approving a plan this session to pay for crumbling roads, but the haul in the Republican-controlled House proved too difficult—they adjourned without voting on the Senate plan that passed 20-19 on July 1.

July 22 - Detroit Free Press