The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

L.A. County's transit agency runs a bikeshare program that so far has only been implemented in Downtown Los Angeles. The suburban city of Pasadena, however, will soon be a transit-oriented addition to the system.

June 4 - San Gabriel Valley Tribune

Blame it on the urban heat island effect.

June 4 - KPCC

Oregon lawmakers have proposed a new tax on the sale of bikes—if it passes it would be the first of its kind in the country.

June 4 - knkx

Not since 1987 has a taller building been added to the Dallas skyline than a planned 48-story tower that could be complete in two years.

June 4 - The Dallas News

One big idea behind transit oriented residential developments is that residents will be liberated from their cars. New developments in Chicago are making sure residents won't be parking on streets to get the best of both worlds.

June 4 - DNAinfo Chicago

Rents continue to rise in Los Angeles and more people are living in their cars.

June 3 - Los Angeles Times

Wisconsin provides a case study in the varied methods for defining rural, and why that matters. "Rural is not simple to define, perhaps because the real question is rural for what purpose?"

June 3 - WisContext

Orange County is dealing with falling transit use, and its transit authority is looking for ways to stay afloat.

June 3 - Voice of Orange County

RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C. lost its last tenant in late 2015, and now D.C. leaders have a new plan for the site.

June 3 - The Washington Post

The timing of the announcement of deeply ambitious energy goals by the city of Portland and the county of Multnomah was not coincidental.

June 3 - The Oregonian

More apparel sales will move online, and department stores will continue to struggle in 2017.

June 2 - Business Insider

Toronto has released draft urban design guidelines that put families with children at the center of the city.

June 2 - Next City

Adding insult to injury in a bad week for environmental causes, the Dakota Access pipeline began shipping oil this week.

June 2 - Chicago Tribune

Nothing comes easy for high-speed rail, or anything connected to it, as the agency that runs Caltrain learned in February. But now that a $647 million federal grant has been approved, $713 million in state bond funds will be directed to the project.

June 2 - Los Angeles Times

Callus city builders in Africa must account for the poor as well as the rich argues Mathias Agbo Jr. in a piece for Common Edge.

June 2 - Common Edge

All the coal industry's money has not been able to stem the growth of renewable energy and distributed generation. For the electricity grid, the future is already here.

June 2 - Quartz

In the 1970s and 1980s, condo conversions were all the rage in Chicago. In 2017, however, developers are scooping up multi-family buildings en masse and "deconverting" condo units into apartments.

June 2 - Crain's Chicago Business

Staten Island is getting what appears to be the biggest trend in transit planning: a bus system makeover.

June 2 - Staten Island Advance

The Atlanta metropolitan area is facing an estimated 2.5 million new residents by 2040. Some current residents are surprised at some of the neighborhoods accommodating that growth.

June 2 - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

A totally fake news story from the fake news site The Onion reports the fake news that the National Trust for Historic Preservation is leading an effort to demolish Donald Trump's boyhood home.

June 2 - The Onion