The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Cities around the country are scrambling with ways to accommodate monuments to a past that many consider as oppressive.

August 8 - National Public Radio

Columbus, Ohio has stood out from its midwest peer cities, with strong growth. Can the city keep it up?

August 8 - Forbes

The West Thames Street Pedestrian Bridge is over budget and will not be completed until late 2019.

August 8 - Crain's

State attorneys general and green groups are gearing up to fight the emissions rule rollback. Mayors would have a greater climate impact by helping their constituents drive less, argues Alissa Walker.

August 7 - Curbed

Chuck Wolfe reflects on his rapidly changing hometown, arguing that Seattle’s signature location and setting—however rearranged by the regrades of the past, Freeway Park, or a pending James Corner-led waterfront remake—remains for all to see.

August 7 - Crosscut

Anchorage officials have started to take a more assertive effort toward the clean up of nuisance buildings and properties that have become magnets for crime and other problems. This is the first clean-up of this scope since 2007.

August 7 - Anchorage Daily News

Politicians and residents are uniting to delay Ford GoBike's expansion around San Francisco.

August 7 - San Francisco Examiner

Richard Lewis Haag left a profound legacy in Seattle and the Pacific Northwest.

August 7 - The Cultural Landscape Foundation

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What responsibilities does an urban university engaged in the act of master planning have to the city of which it is a part, and to the greater public good?

August 7 - Dean Saitta

A system in disrepair is losing riders when it could use the fare box revenue the most.

August 7 - The New York Times

"Prices will march on as they have," even if regulations relax to allow more housing supply in the market, according to a recent study by the Federal Reserve.

August 7 - Forbes

A gaming video on the popular City Beautiful YouTube channel shows of the Sim City skills of a professional city planner.

August 7 - City Beautiful

Uber (and Lyft, of course) drivers and taxi drivers hope a cap on the number of ride-hailing vehicles would improve wages and reduce congestion.

August 7 - The New York Times

The new program would allow short-term use of vacant properties, and provide new incubation capabilities to small, start-up businesses.

August 6 - The Architect's Newspaper

Permeable crosswalks absorb water and snowmelt, while decreasing ice on the road.

August 6 - KHSB NBC

A proposal by the nation's largest utility could be a model to deal with the most formidable problem presented by intermittent renewable electricity sources.

August 6 - The New York Times

The new Antioch station is seeing ridership well over predictions, and some think there would be even more riders if there were more parking.

August 6 - The San Francisco Chronicle

Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) has introduced legislation that would tie federal funding to pro-development policies at the local level.

August 6 - The American Prospect

Oakland property prices have gone way up, but vacant land can be found all over the city. Hayley Raetz argues getting development on this land should be a policy priority.

August 6 - Terner Center for Housing Innovation

Electric scooters in Portland will pay a road fee, but according to this article, cities would do well to hold cars to the same standard as scooters.

August 6 - City Observatory