The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

California's third most populous city has a new plan to add hundreds of miles of protected bike lanes.

October 14 - San José Spotlight

The first 20 mile per hour speed limit signs have been installed this week in the Twin Cities.

October 14 - Pioneer Press

Developers are frequently cast as a kind of monolithic bad guy in the politics of development, but developers are cut from different cloths, each with distinct interests and motivations.

October 14 - Strong Towns

Two new buildings are under construction at Hunters Point South and will contain 719 units of affordable housing.

October 14 - The New York Times

A new report on the finances of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) makes a desperate plea for assistance from the federal government.

October 14 - lohud

Google's plan for a mixed-use transit village at a mile-long site near the Diridon Station in San Jose has a newly released planning document available for public review.

October 13 - Smart Cities Dive

Former University of Hawaii professor Tom Dinell makes a case for the need for more trees in Honolulu, with recommendations that can be applied in other cities as well.

October 13 - Honolulu Civil Beat

India could be on track to overtake the United States in the number of COVID-19 cases. The surge is explained by a sharp and growing urban-rural divide in the ability and willingness to follow public health measures.

October 13 - The New York Times

A look at San Francisco's building resilience plan illustrates the pertinent need to include earthquake preparedness in resiliency planning.

October 13 - Smart Cities Dive

Residents of Chicago will soon see some of the fruits of the controversial tax increment financing for the Lincoln Yards project in Chicago's North Side.

October 13 - Chicago Tribune

The Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency (NOACA) is moving forward with a groundbreaking policy to consider regional economic inequities when evaluating potential highway projects.

October 13 - The Plain Dealer

New research suggests that real estate values were declining before prices started falling, but a climate-driven housing crisis could already be here in coastal Florida.

October 13 - The New York Times

Cambridge, Massachusetts has opened all residential neighborhoods to the development of apartments buildings with 100 percent affordable units. It might be the most "sweeping attack on elitist and racist single family zoning" in the country.

October 13 - Wicked Local

There are significant differences between Proposition 21, a statewide rent control measure on the ballot in California, compared to a similar measure defeated soundly by voters in 2018.

October 12 - Los Angeles Times

A nationwide network of bike and pedestrian trails could give drivers new options for planning their next cross-country adventure.

October 12 - Fast Company

According to a new study, Hawaii is the happiest state in the U.S. in 2020.

October 12 - Travel + Leisure

Cities looking to provide incentive for the construction of accessory dwelling units are increasingly released "permit ready plans" to help the cause.

October 12 - City of Stockton

Virgin Hyperloop's Hyperloop Certification Center (HCC) will be located on an 800-acre site straddling Tucker and Grant counties in West Virginia.

October 12 - Smart Cities Dive

A riverfront revival was well underway in Chicago. Then the pandemic hit. How can a splashy new downtown commercial development expect to fare in Covid's world?

October 12 - Chicago Tribune

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The conversation about how the pandemic might alter the direction of planning and urbanism, unlike the spread of the coronavirus, has remained steady since March.

October 12 - James Brasuell