The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

More people are driving less and staying at home. The result is significant improvements in air quality in cities across the country.

April 2 - The New York Times

Growth and development are the biggest obstacles to Washington, D.C.'s plans to add more than 10,000 trees every year over the next 25 years.

April 2 - The Washington Post

The extension to downtown is a complex and ambitious project facing many challenges and questions about feasibility.

April 1 - The Mercury News

The National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC) and the National Apartment Association (NAA) on the law's impact on multifamily housing.

April 1 - The Planning Report

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April Fool's Day is a good day to consider life from a virus's perspective. Our tiny friends have many positive attributes.

April 1 - Todd Litman

The pandemic is highlighting the crucial necessity of community developers’ work. Here’s what the field will need to play its part in the recovery.

April 1 - Shelterforce Magazine

FEATURE

Connectivity is not just a question of geometry, according to this article by Fanis Grammenos. It's critical to consider what people connect for and how.

April 1 - Fanis Grammenos

Changes are coming, but they don't have to be anti-urban, and they could mean a more resilient world for cities and communities of all shapes and sizes.

April 1 - Rice Kinder Institute for Urban Research: The Urban Edge

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Facial recognition offers both benefits and risks. Planners can have a role in ensuring more of the former than the latter.

April 1 - Kayla Matthews

Now that everyone understands what an exponential curve looks like, how it works, and how it brings life-threatening risk to their lives, it might be time to re-examine the realities of climate change, too.

April 1 - Politico

An interview with Michael Berkowitz, former executive director of 100 Resilient Cities, finds a path to the light at the end of the tunnel.

March 31 - CityLab

Preventing catastrophe when eviction moratoriums lift requires major waivers and changes of policy—but ones advocates say are fully within HUD's power.

March 31 - Shelterforce Magazine

A report from Imperial College London, viewed as the "gold standard" by British leaders, was instrumental in compelling the U.S. and the U.K. to enact stronger policies to contain COVID-19. But was it too late?

March 31 - The New York Times

Alisa Orduña shares her insight on Santa Monica's COVID-19 response and the pandemic's disruption both on the lives of L.A.'s unhoused and the approach cities take towards crises of public health, safety, and wellbeing, going forward.

March 31 - The Planning Report

Cities have an opportunity to make bold changes that would give pedestrians and cyclists the space on streets that they deserve.

March 31 - The Verge

While some bike-sharing systems are being shut off to reduce mobility, others are experiencing a sudden increase of demand as people avoid mass transit.

March 31 - Cities of the Future

The densest city in the country is struggling with the rapid spread of the virus, and close proximity is likely a primary factor.

March 31 - The New York Times

Track the response of local transportation strategies responding to the massive shift in travel demand as a result of the pandemic.

March 31 - Bloomberg Philanthropies

Shortly after the two health experts on his task force estimated that the COVID-19 death toll could reach 200,000 and that no metro area would be spared, President Trump announced on Sunday that he would extend the 15-day guidelines through April.

March 30 - The Washington Post

The Smart Cities Council has launched the "Activator - COVID-19 Mitigation Roadmap."

March 30 - Smart Cities Dive