The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

A new report by the New York City Comptroller's Office has estimated the cost of Airbnb to the city's rental market, and the tab is a big one: $616 million in 2016 alone.

May 4 - Bloomberg

Pittsburgh is betting on its own version of New York City's famed elevated park, based on a 500-foot-long raised roadway connecting two warehouses.

May 4 - The Architect's Newspaper

This is the first and only time you will be actively encouraged to get your mind into the gutter.

May 4 - Houston Chronicle

Five decades after the Fair Housing Act, racial inequality is still rampant in American cities. Trulia and the National Fair Housing Alliance collaborated on this report on four of them.

May 3 - Curbed Atlanta

Industry experts project growth for electric buses, which could have big impacts on air quality and emissions in cities around the world.

May 3 - Vox

Ben Brown continues his weekly blog series in lead-up to the day-long exploration at CNU Savannah, "Affordability: The Intersection of Everything."

May 3 - PlaceShakers

Moving an 80,000-pound metal box means using energy, and elevators can account for 2-10% of a buildings energy use.

May 3 - Smithsonian Magazine

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt had announced the rollback of greenhouse gas emission and fuel economy standards on April 2. While the auto industry supports the move, not all auto executives agreed.

May 3 - Los Angeles Times

Bus Rapid Transit along I-405 and SR-522 will b completed by 2024 if plan is approved and built on schedule.

May 3 - Bothell Kenmore Reporter

While tech giants like Google, Facebook, and Apple have approached the Bay Area's housing crisis gingerly the CEO of Yelp has thrown himself into the YIMBY movement. His activism says a lot about the real world and the virtual world.

May 3 - California Planning & Development Report

The ACLU is bringing a lawsuit against SEPTA, saying the transit agency's advertising policy runs afoul of the First Amendment. Some $16 million in annual revenue is at stake.

May 3 - PlanPhilly

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Let's acknowledge that loneliness and depression is common among urban residents, and figure out ways urban planning can foster connections and social interactions between people.

May 3 - Kayla Matthews

New York's Transit system has long lacked facilities to allow wheelchair users access to many of their stations.

May 3 - Crain's New York Business

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Community is built through altruism, but planners are taught to think of self interest as the biggest motivator of human behavior. How do we use planning skills to encourage public goods and community interest?

May 2 - Bruce Stiftel

A plan for a 660-acre park, originally put forward in 2016, now has institutional backing.

May 2 - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Four chiefs of hospitals in the Detroit area pen an opinion piece in support of public transit as a key factor in public health outcomes.

May 2 - Detroit Free Press

Despite new construction, Miami homes remain stubbornly expensive. An opinion piece for Next City makes the case for community land trusts as a solution.

May 2 - Next City

Interview with the co-author of the report "Social Housing in the United States," on the politics of home ownership, why public housing needs to be mixed-income, and providing adequate, affordable housing to all citizens.

May 2 - Shelterforce/Rooflines

Inclusive transit oriented development is a top priority with Sound Transit's new surplus land policy.

May 2 - Public Square: A CNU Journal

The California Renters Legal Advocacy and Education Fund, unlike other renters groups, sees increased housing production as key to bringing down rents. It is enforcing the Housing Accountability Act in cities that arbitrarily deny new construction.

May 2 - California Renters Legal Advocacy and Education Fund