The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

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

BLOG POST

The Federal Highway Administration's National Household Travel Survey (NHTS) shows that transit use is rising and household vehicle miles traveled are declining—but other data sources paint a more ambiguous picture.

January 22 - Michael Lewyn

The wisdom of a broad cross section of residents and stakeholders is an essential part of planning and designing livable, efficient, and authentic communities.

January 22 - Strong Towns

New York and Chicago asked residents to suggest sites for new docking stations. Most were not put at those locations, but that doesn’t mean collecting public input is not a useful and important part of the planning process, say researchers.

January 22 - CityLab

After years of planning and development, two Green Zones in Minneapolis are attracting desired investments and paving the way for more success.

January 22 - Energy News Network

Millennials are growing up, and it's time to start considering the generation that follows—dubbed Generation Z by the Pew Research Center.

January 22 - Pew Research Center

FEATURE

The following excerpt, written by Daniel Kay Hertz in the introduction to The Battle of Lincoln Park, challenges assumptions about the forces of gentrification in Chicago, with lessons for communities around the country.

January 22 - Daniel Kay Hertz

Feeling a little "tl;dr" about the "Urban Planning Trends to Watch in 2019" article published by Planetizen earlier this month?

January 21 - Planetizen via YouTube

A new online tool allows cities to measure progress in providing access to alternative forms of transportation.

January 21 - Fast Company

Los Angeles Metro CEO Phil Washington will recommend to his board next Thursday that they pursue a congestion pricing program to reduce traffic congestion, improve transit, and subsidize transit fares in Los Angeles in time for the 2028 Olympics.

January 21 - Curbed Los Angeles

Under the Trump administration, criminal prosecution of polluters is an historically rare activity.

January 21 - Associated Press

The new “Report on Effects of a Changing Climate to the Department of Defense” isn't the environmental win that it could be.

January 21 - Vox

Inland waterways have capacity to spare to help deal with an expected surge in freight movement around the country. Some TLC will be required to maximize that potential, however.

January 20 - Eno Center for Transportation

The city of Philadelphia provides a case study of the so-called "Latino Homeless Paradox." There are many more low-income and homeless Latinos than reflected in the numbers of those using supportive services in the city.

January 20 - The Philadelphia Inquirer