The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Larger universities, like Boston University, have begun swallowing up smaller schools that offer new students and a goldmine of real estate in dense urban areas.

September 24 - The Boston Globe

Bodegas play an essential role in the communities they serve. Under threat by online retail and encroaching chain stores, they face a new danger from technology. New York YIMBY gives them a well-deserved shout-out.

September 24 - New York YIMBY

Maglev trains are often touted for their performance in difficult conditions and their use of electric power.

September 24 - En.People.Cn

Street art tours offer colorful glimpses of global cities.

September 24 - The Dallas Morning News

A new on-street parking regime comes with a royal purple color scheme in a ritzy suburb in the San Francisco Bay Area.

September 24 - East Bay Times

Governor Larry Hogan's $9 Billion Highway Plan Critiqued

September 23 - Streetsblog USA

Washington, D.C. already has the highest percentage of commuters in the country walking and biking to work; a new bill aims to provide even more incentives to leave the car at home.

September 23 - Greater Greater Washington

The green belts that hem in developed areas in Great Britain are set arbitrarily, according to this op-ed in The Guardian, and the boundaries have outlived their usefulness.

September 23 - The Guardian

A series of thoughts about walking, biking, and community after Hurricane Irma.

September 23 - Walking the Walk

The bicycle community in San Diego came up with a win-win-win: an innovative bike center in an abandoned building on a closed military base next to downtown and a major biking route. Then came the real world of unreal bureaucratic concerns.

September 23 - UrbDeZine

Two California cities are going after oil companies with a legal argument that recalls the legislation against big tobacco companies in the 1990s.

September 22 - San Francisco Chronicle

A state park in the Colorado Springs area tried allowing dogs on trails over the summer, but too many people complained about the impact of the canines on the wilderness experience.

September 22 - The Denver Post

A proposed ordinance would save derelict buildings from the wrecking ball, and send them to the salvage yard instead.

September 22 - Urban Milwaukee

How did the seven square mile, four-foot high barrier island in the Atlantic Ocean off Miami and Biscayne Bay hold-up to Hurricane Irma? The city arguably has done more to adapt to sea level rise in recent times than any other coastal city.

September 22 - Planetizen

On a recent tour of Tijuana for young land use professionals, San Diego architect Marin Gertler found a city that used the drought of U.S. tourism in the last decade to redefine and refine its urban core.

September 22 - UrbDeZine

There's a surprising amount of vacancies and blight in the nation's capital, and District officials aren't doing everything in their power to address the challenge.

September 22 - The Washington Post

The New York Times has a potential damning report about shortcuts taken by the New York MTA, under the leadership of Governor Andrew Cuomo, to deliver the Second Avenue Subway on its scheduled opening date at the beginning of the year.

September 22 - The New York Times

Ben Carson has penned an op-ed that lays out the ideology driving the Trump Administration's approach to the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

September 22 - The Hill

Here's a change: Displacement in the nation's fastest growing urban neighborhood has largely been limited to businesses. The new highrises have given Queens something it never had: a skyline.

September 22 - New York Magazine

An armed forces veteran or a Boston Marathon bombing survivor would have been a better choice.

September 22 - Brokelyn