The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Washington State released a report detailing the business case for connecting Seattle to Portland and Vancouver by high-speed rail.

July 19 - Business in Vancouver

Over a year after Capital Metro in Austin overhauled its bus system design, the system is bucking national trends and achieving growth in its ridership numbers.

July 19 - CBS Austin

Predicting the future of challenges facing cities isn't very hard when the future is already staring cities right in the face.

July 19 - Meeting of the Minds

A proposal to dissolve the groups has led to a debate about their purpose and who really benefits from them.

July 18 - Oregon Live

There are more than 90,000s dams in the U.S.; many will never be visited by federal or state inspectors.

July 18 - Yale Environment 360

If you pay a 20% down payment for a home, you’re making a leveraged bet that the home will maintain or grow its value.

July 18 - City Observatory

The Minister for Transport called it "part of the answer to climate change" – charging air travelers a modest fee for international trips that originate in France and investing the revenue in greener alternatives such as rail transport.

July 18 - The Washington Post

The public got its first chance to weigh in on a controversial proposal to makeover a sliver of Toronto waterfront as an ambitious experiment in "smart city" technology.

July 18 - The Star

Sydney built more than 30,000 multi-unit homes last year. That new supply has meant falling rents in most of the city.

July 18 - The Sydney Morning Herald

Controversy over a plan to revitalize the Chesapeake & Ohio (C&O) Canal in Washington, D.C. has some questioning whether the High Line in New York City is the best model for the adaptive reuse of public space.

July 18 - Greater Greater Washington

The Houston Council voted yesterday to extend its market-base parking program.

July 18 - Rice Kinder Institute for Urban Research

Toronto has gone back to the drawing board for more effective strategies and tactics for reducing traffic fatalities after its first attempt failed to produce any measurable results.

July 18 - The Star

Fewer people investing in low-income housing tax credits means fewer affordable housing units being built—at a time when affordable units are in extremely short supply.

July 18 - The Sacramento Bee

The chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure used the word "unlawful," when describing the tardy delivery of allocated capital investment funding by the Federal Transit Administration under the Trump administration.

July 17 - Streetsblog USA

The secret manual for the use of facial recognition and data collection software company Palantir was made public thanks to a FOIA request. It includes instructions on how to find a complete account of a person's movements.

July 17 - Motherboard

A study from the Boston Foundation shows that besides homelessness and housing costs, Massachusetts housing debt also fuels the racial wealth gap and segregation.

July 17 - The Boston Globe

The slow progress of autonomous vehicle and electric vehicle technology in gaining widespread traction in the transportation market is casting doubt on the ambitious statements of a few years prior.

July 17 - Fast Company

A 984-foot tower, with an observation deck, shaped like a tulip, won over planners, but not the mayor, in London.

July 17 - The Architect's Newspaper

A local labor organization wanted larger hotels to help workers create unions, so they sought a zoning change to make it harder to develop smaller hotels in light manufacturing zones.

July 17 - The Real Deal

If approved, a new facility in San Francisco will allow homeless people living in RVs and vans a safe place to park. Access to support services will also be available at the site.

July 17 - San Francisco Chronicle