The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

A bi-partisan bill introduced in the U.S. Senate would inform better information sharing between federal agencies and local code-making powers to ensure more resilient infrastructure.

March 3 - U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisconsin)

Landlords and the NAACP agree on the need for property tax reform in New York City, but it took a lawsuit to get the city moving on reform, and the state is still dragging its feet.

March 3 - The New York Times

Republican state lawmakers repeated a tactic they successfully deployed last summer to prevent the passage of a bill that would have made Oregon the second state, after California, to place a price on carbon emissions from most economic sectors.

March 2 - The Washington Post

The NBA star says bikes have played an important role in his life, and he wants young people to have the same access and freedom that biking gave him.

March 2 - Outside

Electric vehicles and internal combustion automobiles emit vastly different sums of carbon, and electric vehicles are quickly widening the gap between the two options as the electricity generation industry cleans up its act.

March 2 - Union Of Concerned Scientists

A video explains the origin of the right of way concept that controls the flow of traffic through the public realm.

March 2 - City Beautiful

A federal bill intended to increase transparency in land use and zoning decisions as well as encourage localities to eliminate barriers to housing has advanced out of a House of Representative committee.

March 2 - Financial Services Republicans

A massive public transit planning effort is underway in the Charlotte region.

March 2 - Plan Charlotte

Case studies in dealing with population loss from Ohio, Maryland, and Massachusetts.

March 2 - The Guardian

A citywide network of public electric vehicle charging stations will be up and running later this year as part of a demonstration project.

March 2 - Smart Cities Dive

Transportation seems like an afterthought on the campaign trail, but Transportation for America is shining light on the issue by providing an evaluation of each campaign's transportation plan.

March 1 - Transportation for America

This is satire for anyone who has noticed, with fear for the planet and pedestrians, the growing size of pickup trucks and sports utility vehicles manufactured and sold in the United States

March 1 - The Onion

Tribal communities are preparing for climate impacts by drawing on their deep understanding of the relationship between humans and the natural environment.

March 1 - Yale Environment 360

A controversial evaluation process has produced a final verdict, and four scooter companies are no longer welcome on the streets of the nation's capital.

March 1 - DCist

The Anchorage Municipal Assembly seeks more focus on pedestrian and transit improvements over traffic reduction in an upcoming 20-year transportation plan.

February 28 - KTUU Channel 2

The newly created position of Chief Transportation Planner for the city of Houston is tasked with working with multiple levels of government to help shift Houston away from its car-centric model.

February 28 - Community Impact Newspaper

Neighborhoods don't get the same official boundaries as cities, counties, states, and countries. So how do we know where one neighborhood ends and another begins?

February 28 - Gothamist

FEATURE

Few social media sites offer the same kind of diversity of information and opinion to a field of study than Twitter does for planning.

February 28 - James Brasuell

With most private auto traffic banned on Market Street in downtown, a battle is brewing in the Mission District between Valencia Street merchants, led by a bike store owner, and cyclists who support converting a bike lane into a cycletrack.

February 27 - San Francisco Chronicle

California Assemblymember Richard Bloom and Tara Barauskas dive into the barriers to affordable housing in California and whether recent legislation streamlining local planning, zoning, and permitting processes.

February 27 - The Planning Report