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Pittsburgh-area buses operating on routes with a recently reduced number of stops are more likely to arrive on time than before the changes.

February 27 - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Lending and planning policies have split San Antonio residents into haves and haves for decades, according to a large feature published recently by the Rivard Report.

February 27 - Rivard Report

Neighborhood veto power can conflict with citywide goals to provide a 24-7 urban experience, as a case study from Boston shows.

February 27 - The Boston Globe

A plan to teardown the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and build a tunnel in its place has new political support and an expensive engineering plan.

February 27 - The New York Times

The video cameras would be used to collect data on street light outages, but could also potentially used by police in the city's crime surveillance program.

February 27 - The Lens

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There's no one no defining attribute that determines whether a city is healthy or not, as a growing and evolving body of research shows.

February 27 - Kayla Matthews

The city of Cupertino rezoned a controversial development site in case a judge tosses the developer's current plan for the site. Now the developer is suing, accusing the city of an illegal taking.

February 26 - The Mercury News

The Transit Cooperative Research Program recently released a current snapshot of public transit ridership trends on bus and rail services in U.S. urban and suburban areas.

February 26 - The National Academies Press

A four-month-old California housing law that applies only to 100% affordable housing near transit has dramatically changed a housing proposal in an affluent Peninsula city, though it is too soon to say if the additional two-stories will be approved.

February 26 - San Mateo Daily Journal

"Golden Gates: The Fight for for Housing in America," a new book by New York Times reporter Conor Dougherty, chronicles the early days of the YIMBY movement in the Bay Area.

February 26 - California Planning & Development Report

Before YIMBY was a household word and before Minneapolis ended single-family zoning, Seattle's Housing Affordability and Livability Agenda (HALA) broke the planning status quo.

February 26 - Sightline Institute

A high-profile appointment highlights the launch of Denver's new Office of Climate Action, Sustainability, and Resiliency.

February 26 - Colorado Community Media

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was on the verge of proposing a plan to protect New York City from storm surges and sea-level rise. Instead, the city of New York has lost federal support for a path toward climate resilience.

February 26 - Gothamist

The reality of ride hailing has fallen well short of the wishful thinking about reduced congestion and reduced pollution that defined the early days of Uber and Lyft.

February 26 - The Verge

Nashville builds four miles of sidewalk a year.

February 25 - WSMV

The planning approvals process took a black eye in Boston last year, when a bribery scandal sent a Boston Planning and Development Agency staffer to jail.

February 25 - The Boston Globe

The idea of blocking major streets to private automobiles is making advocates envious in cities that have yet to implement the idea. A petition is circulating to give the car-free treatment to Chestnut Street in Philadelphia.

February 25 - Billy Penn

Missouri lawmakers removed a barrier to the creation of a Hyperloop test facility in St. Louis.

February 25 - St. Louis Business Journal

Most Americans are aware that the 2020 Census is underway, but many still lack information about key details of the big, national headcount.

February 25 - Pew Research Center

Chicago is late to the game on all-door bus boarding, but that will change this summer.

February 25 - Chicago Tribune