The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

A step toward an overhaul of the way speed is managed on city streets around the country.

August 2 - Smart Cities Dive

Vision 2030 will update the award winning Vision 2020 New York City Comprehensive Waterfront Plan.

August 2 - NYC Planning

PLANOPEDIA

Urban planning is the most common term used in the contemporary United States to describe the professional and academic field of planning, but understanding the implications of the term requires a discussion about the history of the word urban and the changing politics of planning.

July 31 - James Brasuell

PLANOPEDIA

Euclidean zoning is responsible for the sprawling, suburban character of much of the built environment in the United States.

July 31 - James Brasuell

A grim warning was issued by the non-profit group that represents America's medical schools and teaching hospitals: if the nation doesn't change its response to the pandemic, "Multiples of hundreds of thousands" of additional deaths may occur.

July 31 - CNN

Early in the pandemic, bike sales soared and vehicle miles traveled plummeted. As people have been driving more, more people have also been infected with the novel coronavirus.

July 31 - Rice Kinder Institute for Urban Research

Improved air quality can help achieve equitable economic growth, according to Chicago's newly announced Air Quality Agenda.

July 31 - Smart Cities Dive

Fake news site The Onion imagines the logical result of car-centric planning during a pandemic.

July 31 - The Onion

A new twist on the contemporary corruption scandal.

July 30 - The Denver Post

Some high-profile projects, including a 77-story tower, hang in the balance of a federal corruption case, but it's unclear whether Los Angeles can undo the approvals, whether they were achieved through bribes or not.

July 30 - Los Angeles Times

Minnesota utility company Xcel Energy plans to close four coal plants by 2030 and fully switch to renewable energy sources by 2050.

July 30 - MinnPost

Now is the time to invest in public transit as the correct coronavirus pandemic transportation solution.

July 30 - The World Bank

Shelterforce spoke with researchers, advocates, lawyers, housing economists, and rental housing industry representatives to understand what that crisis would do to evicted families, public health, and the housing market.

July 30 - Shelterforce Magazine

Designers have gone back to the drawing board to keep proposals moving through the development pipeline in light of lessons from the pandemic.

July 30 - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

New Orleans is attempting a "major paradigm shift" in marrying land use control with economic development goals.

July 30 - The Lens

During March and April, most states shut down all but essential services in order to "flatten the curve," and it largely worked. What happened afterward didn't. U.S. PIRG has organized a campaign to start the process over and do it right.

July 30 - CNN

BLOG POST

President Trump took to Twitter today to celebrate his administration's decision to rescind the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule, approved by the Obama administration to strengthen the Fair Housing Act of 1968.

July 29 - James Brasuell

The worsening housing crisis shows that we must develop comprehensive tools and programs to keep families housed and their assets preserved.

July 29 - Shelterforce Magazine

Harvard University's Global Health Insititute and Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics have launched a new online tool for planners, policy makers, and the public to determine the severity of the coronavirus outbreak in one's county and state.

July 29 - Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics

While many cities have shown efforts to implement accessible design since the 1990 adoption of the American Disabilities Act, more must be done.

July 29 - Smart Cities Dive