The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

The National Park Service is looking for solutions to overcrowding at its most popular parks. The idea of an online reservation system might get its first test in Utah.

July 23 - Associated Press via The Mercury News

Chicago's Metra has the resources to create frequent transit for a large swath of the South Side. Instead, their plan supports only the most fortunate along that train line.

July 23 - South Side Weekly

Faced with "mounting costs" due to the impacts of climate change, a collection of coastal communities in California have taken legal action against the fossil fuel industry.

July 23 - Associated Press via KPCC

New York's ability to feed itself with locally grown urban agriculture is only being partially realized. Better planning, specific to urban agriculture, would help.

July 23 - The Wall Street Journal

Rents and prices are going up for basically every kind of housing unit in Alexandria, Virginia. The city's commitment to the preservation of subsidized housing is no match.

July 23 - Greater Greater Washington

A few ideas on how advertisements could do a better job of selling public transit to the public.

July 22 - Mobility Lab

A new CincyInsights dashboard shows recycling participation rates all over the city.

July 22 - City of Cincinnati

A car spends 95 percent of the time parked, and only 5 percent of its time in use. The huge amount of space that system requires is made "intuitively and accessibly" comparable by the What the Street project.

July 22 - Fast Company

Mayor Gimenez is citing frugality as the reason behind a decision that favors bus rapid transit over an earlier proposal for new rail lines.

July 22 - The Miami Herald

Opponents of red light cameras have achieved a major victory against the Rahm Administration in Chicago.

July 22 - Chicago Tribune

The rapidly growing and urbanizing continent of Africa offers lessons in property tax.

July 21 - At Lincoln House

The Citymapper "smart bus" system will rely on the power of data to meet transit service demand in London.

July 21 - The Verge

The city of Richmond has decided to turn potential to reality by approving, among other big transit changes, five new bus rapid transit routes.

July 21 - Greater Greater Washington

A new map presents two scenarios: the temperature in 2100 if recent emissions trends continue unabated, and the temperature in 2100 with moderate emissions cuts.

July 21 - Climate Central

A majority of Americans of both parties support raising the gas tax to pay for road improvements. Could it provide the source of the $200 billion in federal funds for Trump's $1 trillion infrastructure plan?

July 21 - Bloomberg Politics

A very public spat over proposed Midtown East plan took place in the pages of Crain's this week.

July 21 - Crain's Business New York

Developers had plans for the largest undeveloped waterfront property north of Hoboken in the state of New Jersey. The borough of Edgewater has other plans.

July 21 - NorthJersey

Baby boomers own homes, lots of them, with empty rooms, lots of them.

July 21 - Trulia

Are millennials the key to preservation? A new survey finds that millennials prefer to live, work and play in neighborhoods with historic buildings.

July 21 - Modern Cities

Actually-fake-news site The Onion got a few burns on the world of planning this week. One article satirized the nation's inaction over the state of its infrastructure. The other hit the Brookings Institute where it hurts: the policy recommendations.

July 21 - The Onion