The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Using a wagon filled with phones, an artist in Berlin demonstrated the disconnect between data and the real world.

February 19 - Vice

Littleton, Colorado, home to a population growing beyond 40,000, wants a break from multi-family developments.

February 18 - Littleton Independent

A former housing and urban development secretary and a professor of sociology oppose the Trump administration's proposed changes to the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule.

February 18 - The New York Times

The program would allow transit agencies throughout the state to eliminate or reduce fares.

February 18 - Greater Greater Washington

Here's your "tl;dr" treatment of the "Urban Planning Trends to Watch in 2020" article published by Planetizen earlier this year.

February 18 - Planetizen Courses on YouTube

Some of the opinions of Michael Bloomberg, billionaire candidate for president, haven't aged well since his time as the mayor of New York City.

February 18 - CityLab

Outgoing San Francisco Planning Director John Rahaim announced his departure in September. Rich Hillis will be the next to have the job.

February 18 - San Francisco Chronicle

The 186-page "Resilient Houston" document was released to the public in the nation's fourth largest city, which is facing numerous environmental stresses.

February 18 - Rice Kinder Institute for Urban Research: The Urban Edge

Several recent studies add fuel to the fire of whether market-rate housing helps affordability or drives low-income people from their neighborhoods.

February 18 - The New York Times

A plan for the riverfront property would bring thousands of housing units to the historically industrial area.

February 17 - Chicago Tribune

Los Angeles and Uber bike-share subsidiary Jump are in a protracted legal battle over the city's data sharing requirements.

February 17 - Los Angeles Times

The New Carrollton transit station will add Purple Line light rail to its multi-modal mix; planners at the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (Metro) hope to leverage the new transit for new land use and development around the station.

February 17 - The Washington Post

A new report by Resources for the Future, a nonpartisan economic think tank, claims that Miami is the most vulnerable coastal city in the world.

February 17 - Scientific American

Dockless bikes offer the unexpected and help users navigate and understand the urban environment in new and different ways.

February 16 - Next City

The first phases of a plan to remake the downtown Los Angeles plaza into a more inviting, accessible public space are going to kick off soon.

February 16 - Curbed Los Angeles

California's water resources are under threat from climate change, and the state's water agency must take action to face the challenges.

February 16 - The Sacramento Bee

The National Cooperative Highway Research Program has released a report that looks at the effects of new transportation-related technologies on public agencies .

February 16 - TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program

Gary Mason has been decorating a SEPTA trolley for Valentine's Day since 1993.

February 14 - WPVI Action News

A study identifies cities where people stay in their homes longer, and they tend to be at either end of the income and home values spectrum.

February 14 - The New York Times

A study of residents in Beijing, China who became car owners indicates that they used alternative transportation modes less after buying cars.

February 14 - MinnPost