The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

A Denver writer calls attention to the city's worsening housing affordability, gentrification, and displacement challenges, and prescribes a YIMBY response.

September 11 - The Denver Post

More than a dozen states are using Community Development Block Grant funding from the CARES Act to fund emergency rental and mortgage assistance programs.

September 11 - Shelterforce Magazine

Huge amounts of land are dedicated to asphalt in Kansas City—about twice as much land than is dedicated to buildings. Fiscal dependence on vehicular infrastructure, however, is not unique to Kansas City.

September 11 - Strong Towns

Reflections on a long career, a great interview, and six sssentials for greener, healthier communities via Kaid Benfield, one of the founders of Smart Growth America

September 11 - PlaceShakers

The city of Milwaukee's commitment to Complete Streets is still in early stages, as a new progress report details with an eye toward the future.

September 10 - Urban Milwaukee

The battle for the future of Colorado River water, and whether it will be used for agriculture or new development, continues in Arizona.

September 10 - Arizona Republic

Crystal Lake, Illinois offers a transit oriented planning case study on the edge of the Chicago metropolitan area.

September 10 - Streetsblog Chicago

Since late 2019, developers who deliver affordable housing units in Austin have received bonuses in height, density, parking, and other regulatory metrics, leading to a large number of new affordable housing units in the pipeline.

September 10 - Austin Monitor

There’s more than one way to be excluded from your community.

September 10 - Shelterforce Magazine

BLOG POST

These grassroots strategies are helping urban neighborhoods improve the quality of life for many of their citizens.

September 10 - Devin Partida

First proposed in 2019, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan's highway widening plan has been trimmed everywhere but the bottom line.

September 10 - Maryland Matters

New York is a city of superlatives. A new series of walking tours around the city, led by the New York Times architecture critic, draws out the many examples of the city's exceptionalism.

September 10 - The New York Times

Angie Schmitt, former editor at Streetsblog USA, has written a new book about pedestrian fatalities, which works to dispel some of the myths about traffic safety in the United States.

September 9 - Curbed

The city of Philadelphia has a new, highly anticipated plan for a valuable site on the Delaware River waterfront.

September 9 - WHYY

The city of Houston this week launched an app for its Community Connector shuttle service as part of a ten-month pilot project.

September 9 - Houston Chronicle

A California bill approved in 2018 legalized restaurants to locate in homes, setting the foundation for a new restaurant economy just when communities needed it most.

September 9 - Eater Los Angeles

Online public hearings and other meetings have become commonplace. A case can be made to continue virtual meetings even in the post-COVID-19 era.

September 9 - Governing

In the Philadelphia region, residents of wealthier neighborhoods will be more likely to work from home in the future, thus altering travel patterns and transit usage, according to a new mapping project powered by artificial intelligence (AI).

September 9 - Smart Cities Dive

A new requirement for the Virginia Department of Transportation took effect on July 1. The state's transportation planners and engineers now must study Transportation Demand Management as an approach to congestion management.

September 9 - The Virginia Mercury

Everywhere but San Francisco and New York City, urban housing markets are just as hot for sellers as suburban markets, according to data released recently by Zillow.

September 9 - Zillow