The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

You might have read that headline and wondered why other wealthy tech companies aren't stepping up to make contributions to their home towns. There is a lot to understand about this news before jumping to conclusions.

January 24 - The Seattle Times

Bus lanes along a primary transit corridor have sped up travel times and point to the potential for major citywide improvements.

January 24 - The Bay City Beacon

Waymo, not General Motors, is brining automobile manufacturing back to Michigan.

January 24 - Smart Cities Dive

Angry public outcry wasn't enough to stop the Roanoke City Council from unanimously approving an ambitious transit station reconfiguration in downtown Roanoke.

January 24 - The Roanoke Times

The work of the Orton Family Foundation provides a leading example of community-driven revitalization at work in small towns all over the country, according to this feature in the Christian Science Monitor.

January 24 - The Christian Science Monitor

The city is responding to controversies surrounding building practices that boost heights of luxury residential towers, while leaving big sections of the buildings empty.

January 24 - Crain's New York Business

The Democratic governor proposed a ban on single-use plastic bags in his state-of-the-state address on Jan. 15. Nearly two years earlier, he signed a bill that prevented New York City from charging for bags as the District of Columbia and Boston do.

January 23 - The New York Times

Colorado will join California and nine other states in requiring that a percentage of new light-duty vehicle sales are zero-emissions, thanks to the first executive order signed by Democratic Gov. Jared Polis on Jan. 17.

January 23 - Colorado Politics

Pittsburgh is considering a gentrification and displacement prevention measure for longtime residents of rapidly changing neighborhoods in the city of Pittsburgh.

January 23 - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Detroit's property values are climbing, steeply, for the first time in almost two decades.

January 23 - The Detroit News

The latest edition of the annual report by Smart Growth America and the National Complete Streets Coalition reports more and more death and tragedy on American streets and roads.

January 23 - CityLab

The most damning evidence yet of how ride hailing is making urban transportation less efficient, not more.

January 23 - Streetsblog USA

Seattle recently closed the Alaskan Way Viaduct, but the predicted traffic chaos hasn’t ensued.

January 23 - City Commentary

As Seattle prepares a possible cordon area congestion pricing plan to tackle both traffic congestion and climate change, The Seattle Times did a poll on two applications of congestion pricing: urban tolls and adding express toll lanes to freeways.

January 23 - The Seattle Times

Housing advocates still expect controversies over the loss of parking to make room for thousands of affordable housing units.

January 23 - CBC

A network of monitoring devices will bring together technology and data analytics to help inform residents about air pollution.

January 23 - Quartz

The plants provide much-needed fresh water, but the environmental costs are immense.

January 22 - National Geographic

Soil often doesn’t get the attention that it deserves, but it is integral to the ecology of cities.

January 22 - The Guardian

Companies are marketing battery-electric buses as the transit vehicles of the future, but there is still much room for improvement.

January 22 - CityLab

Accessory dwelling units should be easier to build in California, but the process is still slow and complicated in many cities, say housing advocates.

January 22 - The Mercury News