The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Streetsblog USA breaks the news of a major policy departure for the National Transportation Safety Board: speeding kills, and every level of government must do more to counter the problem.

July 28 - Streetsblog USA

This kind of satire burns.

July 28 - Clickhole

A City Council committee's approval of a proposed rezoning of Midtown East represents a big win for the de Blasio Administration. The Bloomberg Administration fell short in an efforts to upzone the neighborhood in 2013.

July 27 - Crain's New York Business

President Trump told Wall Street Journal reporters earlier this week that Upstate New York "isn't working," and residents should follow manufacturing jobs to other parts of the country.

July 27 - The Buffalo News

The latest in a series of new pedestrian crossings at the Mexico-U.S. border between San Ysidro and El Chaparral opens on July 31.

July 27 - The San Diego Union-Tribune

The city of Berkeley has a radical idea for how to build more transitional housing for its sizable homeless population.

July 27 - East Bay Express

Gov. Jerry Brown, accompanied by former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, signed legislation to continue the cap-and-trade program initially authorized under a bill signed by his Republican predecessor 11 years ago at the same Treasure Island location.

July 27 - KQED News

The Adaptive Biketown system hit the streets in Portland on July 21, 2017.

July 27 - Bike Portland

Large investment companies are betting against homeownership—by buying up homes in suburban areas and putting them on the rental market.

July 27 - The Wall Street Journal

Starting in May 2018: 17 daily round trips between New Haven and Hartford, including 12 trips continuing on to Springfield.

July 27 - The Hartford Courant

Art and culture tend to be integral to helping disenfranchised communities self-identify, develop their identities, and organize around place-based issues. But its presence can also be used be used by real estate interests to market neighborhoods.

July 27 - Shelterforce/Rooflines

These examples are specific to Washington, D.C., but many of the facts listed in this article will apply elsewhere, too.

July 27 - Greater Greater Washington

Not all property data maps are created equal.

July 26 - Data-Smart City Solutions

"A hungry world is not a just world," says one of the local residents quoted in this story about a community garden in Denver.

July 26 - The Denver Post

Does environmental justice need its own office to help vulnerable populations impacted by pollution, or can all divisions within the EPA address the issue? The Office of Environmental Justice, established in 1993, may be shut down.

July 26 - ProPublica

The city of Santa Monica increased in population by 6,500 between 1960 and 2010, while the rest of Los Angeles County grew by 60 percent over the same period. A debate over a new downtown plan that includes more housing was never going to be simple.

July 26 - Los Angeles Times

As it has already done with public lands, the Trump Administration is studying how to roll back environmental protections for the sake of the oil and gas industries. This time, marine sanctuaries are the administration's target.

July 26 - KQED

The city of Seattle has finally been compelled to maintain pedestrian infrastructure in keeping with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

July 26 - The Urbanist

Mexico's capital city and the largest city in North America turned the new regulation into law earlier this month.

July 26 - Streetsblog USA

Philadelphia is one of many American cities suddenly beset with declining bus ridership numbers, likely in part as a result of the popularity of transportation network companies.

July 26 - The Philadelphia Inquirer