The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

"To get beyond NIMBYism, we first must understand it," writes Richard Florida.

February 24 - CityLab

In terms of travel times, jobs, and facilities, Tampa Bay ranks last or close to last in every category that measures public transit service and spending.

February 24 - Tampa Bay Times

"All aboard to funkytown," writes Chloe Booker, transporting readers to a time and a place where the trains had soul and the bells had bottoms.

February 24 - The Sydney Morning Herald

Choosing cartography as a career is a natural result of a lifelong love of maps. National Geographic gathers the proof.

February 24 - National Geographic

The man in charge of public transit in the land of streetcars, bridges without cars, and bike-riding congressmembers is calling for three large highway expansion projects.

February 23 - Portland Tribune

A new series of articles, launched by a big feature earlier this month, will explore the changes occurring in the famous and beloved city of Nashville.

February 23 - The Tennessean

Planners are hard at work in a unique corner of the city of Philadelphia—the Far Northeast.

February 23 - PlanPhilly

Cheyenne Plaza LLC asked to have the bus stop near their property removed and the Cheyenne Transit Program obliged.

February 23 - Wyoming Tribune Eagle

BLOG POST

Some evidence suggests that apartments lead to more greenhouse gas emissions per capita than houses. Does this mean that suburbs pollute less than cities? Probably not.

February 23 - Michael Lewyn

The first environmental regulation to be rescinded under President Trump was the Stream Protection Rule. It will not be the last. The president has his eyes on a rule that limits greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants.

February 23 - The Washington Post

Members of Congress are mobilizing to protect the popular New Market Tax Credit program, which has offered benefits in rural and urban environments.

February 23 - Next City

Even as extensions to the Gold Line and Measure S seem to paint a brighter future for public transit in Los Angeles, commuters continue to use less public transit, especially buses.

February 23 - Los Angeles Times

The process of redeveloping the site of one of the country's most infamous public housing complexes, Cabrini-Green in Chicago, will soon take another substantial step into the future.

February 23 - Chicago Tribune

The new Transit-Walkability Collaborative works to create safe, healthy, equitable, and sustainable communities by harnessing the synergy between walkability and quality public transit service.

February 23 - Transit-Walkability Collaborative

FEATURE

The challenge facing the nation's infrastructure is massive in scale, requiring ambition lacking since the New Deal and Eisenhower eras. Building on those historic models, the following op-ed suggests a "WPA 2.0" approach to infrastructure.

February 22 - Armando Carbonell and Susannah Drake

With experts predicting widespread autonomous vehicle (AV) adoption in the not-too-distant-future, many policymakers, designers, and ordinary citizens are left scratching their heads, uncertain of what to expect and how to prepare.

February 22 - Doggerel

Bus ridership has dropped for many years in New York City, but much of the bleeding is concentrated in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Could the congestion problems of the central city be the reason for the declining use of bus transit?

February 22 - StreetsBlog NYC

A new debate has emerged, starting from a source very close to the project, about the effects of the High Line in New York City.

February 22 - CityLab

So much for the 2015 record of 3.148 trillion miles. Last year saw a cumulative travel increase of 2.8 percent to 3.218 trillion miles, setting a new record as cheap gas contributed to increased driving.

February 22 - E&E News

A new report and hearings by the state's House and Senate environment committees has put a cap-and-trade policy to curb carbon emissions back in play in Salem.

February 22 - Statesman Journal