The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

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February 4 - Streetsblog USA

Decatur, Georgia planned big for bike infrastructure, and now car commuters are saying traffic is more congested than ever.

February 4 - Atlanta Journal Constitution

Data released by the U.S. Census Bureau showed New York with an estimated population of 19.5 million people as of July 1, 2019, making it the fourth largest state in the country, but also showed that New York’s population dropped.

February 4 - New York State Senate

A massive new development at the former site of a polluting power plant is moving forward in the City by the Bay.

February 3 - Curbed San Francisco

A Los Angeles councilmember would drastically redesign one fo the city's most famous streets, stopping short of removing cars entirely from the stretch of road, but still removing vehicle lanes.

February 3 - Los Angeles Times

The capital city, known for its artists and party scene, is aiming to reduce gentrification by capping rent prices for a period of five years.

February 3 - The New York Times

The Washington State Legislature is proposing a type of tax that the city of Seattle tried, and failed, to implement a few years go.

February 3 - KUOW

Four predictions for the future of the conspicuous, controversial dockless scooter rental industry.

February 3 - CityLab

There are multiple lessons to take from a recent rental housing, but a big one is how the housing crisis is expanding beyond the largest U.S. cities.

February 3 - Bloomberg

Enough European cities have shown it can be done. It's time for U.S. cities to follow suit.

February 3 - Curbed

Highways have been razed, replaced with boulevards, and streets have been placed on road diets, but what about lane reductions on interstate highways? That's one recommendation in a report released Thursday by a panel of experts on the BQE.

February 3 - The New York Times

The annual report on the rental housing market by the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University shows how far and deep the housing affordability crisis has reached.

February 2 - Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania took the dramatic step of officially declaring racism a public health threat. Public policy has yet to mitigate the city's worsening air quality, however.

February 2 - CityLab

There have been many attempts to redesign Penn Station, but not all of them were created equal.

February 2 - New York

Indiana's fifth-largest city, of just under 100,000, residents has 120 roundabouts, more than any city in the U.S., and only 14 traffic lights. The average traffic fatality rate is 83 percent lower than the national average.

February 2 - Smart Cities Dive

The San Francisco Chronicle's urban design critic tempers expectations for Market Street in San Francisco, where the city this week undertook an ambitious, but perhaps over-sold, redesign of the busy street.

January 31 - The San Francisco Chronicle

Unleashed Hounds and Hops is calling itself the state of Minnesota's first dog bar.

January 31 - StarTribune

The market and construction costs are taking a toll on development ambitions in Detroit.

January 31 - Crain's Detroit Business

Upzoning is gaining popularity among planners and politicians in parts of the country as a tool for affordability. But some opponents of the idea maintain that new density will only make housing affordability worse.

January 31 - Curbed

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January 30 - James Brasuell