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As we enter the digital age of transportation, cities are finding new ways to digitize their policies.

January 9 - Wisconsin Autonomous Vehicle Proving Ground

California started the decade with a recession and hangover from rampant development in the 2000s. What ensued was an economic boom like none other. Meanwhile, its cities developed only incrementally, spiraling into a catastrophic housing shortage.

January 9 - California Planning & Development Report

On-demand technology has vastly transformed cities by changing everything from the way we shop and travel to how markets target and serve us.

January 9 - CityLab

FEATURE

Planetizen Managing Editor James Brasuell tries to predict the big ideas and trends that will dominate the discussion about the future of land use, planning, and development in the first year of the new decade.

January 9 - James Brasuell

The population in Canada will increase substantially in the future, and transit planning is crucial to ensuring that cities thrive.

January 9 - The Globe and Mail

The city had ambitious goals to reduce waste, but millions of tons of garbage are still sent to communities around the country each year.

January 9 - Politico

Toyota plans to break ground on the "Woven City" future city prototype in 2021.

January 8 - Toyota

Transit ridership has been waning in Charlottesville, Virginia, but a regional system could benefit the area’s operators and better meet the mobility needs of riders.

January 8 - Greater Greater Washington

The Eno Center for Transportation is answering long-overdue calls for more information about the well documented costs of transit investments in the United States.

January 8 - Eno Center for Transportation

State and local lawmakers hope that recent reforms to the Washington State Environmental Policy Act are only an initial step toward ending the law's use as a tool for delaying affordable housing plans.

January 8 - Crosscut

According to this report, the trends point to a "less diverse, older, higher-income" crop of homebuyers as low production locks out the young and many people of color.

January 8 - Curbed San Francisco

Yonah Freemark gives less-than-stellar marks for the transit investments of U.S. cities in the 2010s.

January 8 - theTransportPolitic

The ambitious "Homes for All" plan would include upzoning as only one tool for addressing the acute housing affordability crisis in the state of Maryland.

January 8 - CityLab

Next City's Jared Brey reviews a year of developments in housing politics and policy, teasing out several big trends.

January 8 - Next City

The energy sector produced ten percent less carbon emissions in 2019 than the previous year—the largest drop in decades. Still, the decline of the coal industry is not enough to meet the goals of the Paris Climate Accord.

January 7 - Inside Climate News

He was ahead of his time as a journalist, an urban thinker—and even as an entrepreneur who foreshadowed today's nonprofit news web sites.

January 7 - Urban Edge

A new plan to add significant space for new tracks and platforms at Penn Station would require demolishing a whole city block in Manhattan.

January 7 - The New York Times

News broke yesterday that the dormant SB 50, a bill proposed last year by California State Senator Scott Weiner, has new life in the new year.

January 7 - CALmatters

Barcelona and Manhattan, two municipalities with the same population and retail model, share many similarities and a couple of things they can learn from each other.

January 7 - Cities of the Future

New analysis of National Household Travel Survey data shows that the United States has a long way to go to overcome the dominance of the automobile for daily travel.

January 7 - Journal of Transport & Health via ScienceDirect