The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

A scathing critique of city planning, and the special interests that hold the system in thrall, in New York City.

August 6 - Gotham Gazette

An editorial by the Los Angeles Times calls for the state to remove barriers to housing shortage after a report finds declining numbers of residential permits around the state.

August 6 - Los Angeles Times

Rent the Backyard plans to help homeowners build and rent a coach houses in their backyards and split the rent with them.

August 6 - TechCrunch

A study from the University of Minnesota documents how bike infrastructure can connect workers to jobs, maps job accessibility and ranks U.S. cities by bike access to jobs.

August 6 - Streetsblog USA

An innovative pilot project is under way in Washington, D.C., which is pursuing radical steps to rethink the use of on-street curb spaces in an era of transformative transportation technology.

August 6 - The Washington Post

The Metropolitan Tulsa Transit Authority (Tulsa Transit) is launching a redesigned bus system this September. Tulsa Transit is offering free rides to boost the new service.

August 5 - Public Radio Tulsa

Most of the aging 350-megawatt Grayson Power Plant, operated by Glendale Water & Power, will be retired by 2021. The city's utility district has struggled with how to repower it. A compromise reached last month ensures low emissions and reliability.

August 5 - Greentech Media

With big cuts coming to Capital Area Transit bus service in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, businesses are looking for new ways to get workers to their jobs.

August 5 - The Patriot-News

A potential precedent setting case against rent control is underway in New York. A Next City article takes an in-depth look at the legal argument made by landlords against the state of New York's new rent control law.

August 5 - Next City

The San Diego City Council is poised to give final approval to significant changes to the city's inclusionary zoning requirements,

August 5 - Times of San Diego

A new proposal for building high-speed rail in California would refocus funding to the urban ends of the complete, state route, by funding rail improvements first in Southern California.

August 5 - Los Angeles Times

Many suburban areas outside thriving urban cores are struggling to deliver vital services and maintain property values as job and population growth stagnates. It's time to confront the realities of those communities, according to this article.

August 5 - Governing

Here's a trillion dollar real estate market on the coasts of the United States—and it's building itself into rising levels of risk.

August 5 - The New York Times

The question of whether there is space for children in rapidly changing cities was under investigation in two recent studies with somewhat contradictory findings.

August 5 - Rice Kinder Institute for Urban Research: The Urban Edge

FEATURE

Urban park planning and design needs to deliver a lot of community benefit from a small amount of space. The lessons that emerge

August 5 - Claire Hempel

When first announced in 2014, the Morena Corridor Specific Plan provoked protests. The plan has changed, but it now finally has initial approval from the San Diego City Council.

August 4 - Voice of San Diego

The city of Minneapolis could achieve another first of land use regulation next week if the City Council votes to prohibit the construction of all drive-through facilities in the entire city.

August 4 - Star Tribune

In the rush to get the LVCC Loop ready for a major conference in 2021, concern grows about the potential of the project to damage the existing Las Vegas monorail system.

August 4 - TechCrunch

Funding for a $200 million bus rapid transit route on East Colfax Avenue in Denver is well behind schedule.

August 4 - The Denver Post

With some new transit tax money to spend, South Florida officials are pitching a monorail project in Broward and Miami-Dade counties.

August 4 - South Florida Sun Sentinel