The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

The Trump administration's attack on the protection and conservation of public lands has a new champion.

August 3 - Associated press via The Salt Lake Tribune

Stepping up the urban amenity game in Minneapolis.

August 3 - Star Tribune

Fear and misconception make the Census count more difficult in some parts of the country—like the state of Georgia.

August 3 - WABE

The sage over The Gulch development project—soon to be renamed Centennial Yards—will continue after project opponents filed an appeal of a June court decision upholding public financing for the project.

August 3 - Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Lake Michigan has reached historic levels this summer. Properties on the Far North Side are most at risk. Swimmers have already been called back from the shore.

August 3 - Chicago Tribune

Lynda Lopez argues that transit advocates should be immigrant allies during crackdowns.

August 2 - Streetsblog Chicago

Low-income households would be eligible for half price fares to and from the Golden Gate Bridge district in Marin County by bus or ferry.

August 2 - Marin Independent Journal

Bus riders in Park City will win prizes and swag for boarding the bus the week of July 29.

August 2 - KPCW

Five "climate mayors" addressed the Senate Democrats’ Special Committee on the Climate Crisis at their fist hearing on July 17, titled, “A Blueprint for Success: U.S. Climate Action at the Local Level.” Transportation was a major issue.

August 2 - Curbed

The Los Angeles Police Department is looking to recruit 5,000 volunteers to run stake outs and "undercover surveillance," along with other police activities.

August 2 - The Los Angeles Times

The Reno City Council this week approved a new, 165-page "Sustainability and Climate Action Plan."

August 2 - The Nevada Independent

By paying 1,400 employees up to $60 a day, an employer could pay more than $80,000 a day to lessen the number of cars parked at the office.

August 2 - The Oregonian

The city of Des Moines is working on a new zoning code intended to ease the process of developing homes. The proposed regulations have triggered warnings from affordable housing advocates as well as local and nation home builders.

August 2 - Des Moines Register

Philadelphia isn't the first city to deal with a Hepatitis A outbreak after wavering on the question of whether to deploy public bathrooms and hygiene stations

August 2 - PlanPhilly

Satirical news website The Onion turns up the heat on New York politicians, this time flipping the tables of the fare evasion debate.

August 2 - The Onion

The Boston region has achieved a jobs-housing imbalance only bested by the San Francisco Bay Area since the Great Recession.

August 1 - The Boston Globe

PSEG, the largest and oldest power company in New Jersey, pledges to completely eliminate its carbon emissions by 2050.

August 1 - CNN

Zoning changes for a potentially transformative, transit-oriented, mixed-use project called "The Central Park" were approved by the Phoenix City Council in July.

August 1 - Arizona Republic

It's been 50 years since Ian McHarg released Design With Nature, and projects all over the world are continuing to employ and improve the design ethos described in that groundbreaking book.

August 1 - Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

A $287 billion, five-year transportation reauthorization made its way out of its first Senate committee this week.

August 1 - The Washington Post