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AI, Machine Learning Coming to the Property Management Business

A new era of rental property management technology will have effects on both the landlord and the tenant side of the equation.

March 15 - Forbes

Apartment for Rent

One House, Many Possible Square Footages

Here's a surprising anecdote from the real estate market: there's no right way to measure square footage.

March 14 - The Wall Street Journal

The 606

Increased Demolition Fee Proposed for Developers Near Chicago's 606

A bill with anti-gentrification goals would charge developers who intend to knock down homes along the city’s new bike trail.

March 14 - Chicago Tribune

Metro Bikes

Bikes Spike: Ride Shares Quicken the Pace

2016 saw a 25 percent increase in bikeshare trips over the previous year, continuing a five-year trend of rapid growth, according to the National Association of City Transportation Officers.

March 14 - NACTO

Feather River

Oroville Dam Repair Costs Still a Confusing Secret

The Mercury News issues a pointed critique of the public relations efforts at the California Department of Water Resources in the shadow of this winter’s Oroville Dam crisis.

March 14 - The Mercury News


Portland

Relief for the High-End Renter in Portland

Portland has built many new apartments in the city's core, and that seems to be slowing down rent growth in the area.

March 14 - The Oregonian

Streetcar

San Francisco's Plans for Market and Van Ness Reach a Crossroads

San Francisco Chronicle urban design critic John King reveals more than one layer of planning significance from a project proposed near one of the city's most prominent, but underutilized, intersections.

March 14 - The San Francisco Chronicle


Anti-Terrorism

'See Something, Say Something' Train Ads Tweaked in New York

New York trouble adds subversive quotes to the "If You See Something Say Something" signs in the New York Subway.

March 14 - Hyperallergic

Canadian Prime Minister Wins Award for Being Pro-Oil Sands and Pro-Environment

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is treading a fine line between supporting the economy of oil-sands dependent western Canada and fighting climate change, as impossible as that might sound. His efforts were rewarded by the energy industry.

March 14 - CBC News

Austin Bus

Op-Ed: Austin Still Needs Traditional Buses

Transportation network companies cannot duplicate transit service in outlying communities, argues Ryan Young.

March 14 - The Daily Texan

Downtown Miami

Miami's Giant Pop Up Recreates Downtown Street

Temporary installation is the first attempt to showcase possible improvements that could transform Biscayne Boulevard in Downtown Miami into street rivaling the Embarcadero in San Francisco

March 14 - Modern Cities

Caffeine

Drive Safely: Traffic Safety in Short Supply the Monday After Daylight-Saving Time

Another reason to hate the Monday after daylight-saving time goes into effect: a spike in the number of car crashes and traffic fatalities.

March 13 - Vox

paris

Crumbling Of Democracy Bodes Ill For Urban Design

Ironically, some of the greatest architecture of the past came from the most nefarious of sources: monarchies and dictatorships. Democratic design, though, can be bland and generic. What of design in our new undemocratic age?

March 13 - Common Edge

Red Light Camera

Ann Arbor's Futuristic Traffic Software

The networked sensors and signals in Ann Arbor give the city a coordinated way to respond to traffic.

March 13 - Wired

Leaving California

A Proposed Legislative Solution to California's Out-Migration Epidemic

The Sacramento Bee follows-up a revealing report on lower income workers leaving California due largely to exorbitant housing costs with an editorial endorsing legislation by Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco to address the source of the problem.

March 13 - The Sacramento Bee

Scott Pruitt

EPA Administrator Transitions from Climate Change Skeptic to Denier

Perhaps there never really was much difference between 'skepticism' and 'denial'. Scott Pruitt certainly proved that on Thursday when he answered CNBC's Joe Kernen's question if carbon emissions are the primary cause of climate change.

March 13 - CNBC

Dog

Is Eugene, Oregon's Downtown Dog Ban, a Stealth Ban on Homeless?

The Eugene City Council enacted a 'trial dog ban' in downtown to protect public safety after complaints of aggressive dogs.

March 13 - The Register-Guard

Empty Subway

Transit Agencies Struggling to Predict Ridership, Even as They Raise Fares

At transit agencies like D.C, Metro, bad ridership projections beget bad fare scheduling which begets bad budgets. And so on.

March 13 - WAMU

Omaha - Wagon in the City

Billion-Dollar Mixed Use Project in Omaha Gets Preliminary Approvals

A large mixed-use development proposed as a 'gateway to western Omaha' has received approval from the city's planning board.

March 13 - Omaha World Herald

Manhole Steam

Local Opposition Prevails in Battle Over Subway Emergency Ventilation Plant in New York

Neighborhood opposition kills an infrastructure pipe dream in New York City.

March 13 - DNAInfo

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