The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

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

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

BLOG POST

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