The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Funding for a feasibility study is always one thing. Funding for a project is always something else.

February 14 - The Washington Post

A proposal by the Greater Des Moines Partnership is the latest bid redevelopment idea transforming downtown Des Moines.

February 14 - Business Record

What better way to show you love for your community than by transforming its underused spaces into gathering areas for activities and fun?

February 14 - Center for Community Progress

Is it time to re-evaluate the amount of public money utilized to subsidize sports stadiums at the expense of other community needs?

February 14 - Modern Cities

A new Realtor.com study used the company's "Market Hotness Index" to find the parts of the country with rising demand and fast moving supply.

February 14 - Builder

Mayor Ed Lee comes out against the city controller's proposed percentages for affordable housing, saying the numbers, "…have no relevance to what we economically can accomplish"

February 14 - San Francisco Chronicle

A public service announcement on behalf of renters priced out of the housing market: "Talk to your friends about zoning."

February 14 - Slate

Public transit agencies don't normally get the kind of fine-grained location and navigation data made possible by tracking phones. London got temporary access to that info at the end of 2016, however.

February 14 - Gizmodo UK

In order to stop new development in areas previously consumed by forest fires, Spanish firefighters are using a little known law that prohibits new building's within a 500 meter (0.3 miles) radius of a cemetery.

February 14 - The Independent (UK)

One of the most enthusiastic advocates for the urban resurgence, Richard Florida turns his attention to the segregation, inequality, and housing shortages that threaten to tear cities apart in The New Urban Crisis.

February 13 - California Planning & Development Report

After decades of sprawl, Memphis begins to reconsider its growth pattern and chart a new course towards fiscal sustainability.

February 13 - Modern Cities

California's GOP congressional delegation has written the U.S. DOT asking them to delay a vital $647 million grant needed to electrify the 55-mile, San Francisco-to-San Jose commuter line on which 92 diesel-powered commuter trains operate daily.

February 13 - The Mercury News

A bill introduced in the Utah State Legislature would curtail the UTA's ability to partner in new transit oriented development projects.

February 13 - The Salt Lake Tribune

Los Angeles has a heat problem, and it's getting worse. But the Mayor's Office is taking on the challenge.

February 13 - Los Angeles Times

A new design process will take an initial step toward unleashing the unrealized potential of Irishtown Bend—located along the Cuyahoga River in the heart of Cleveland.

February 13 - The Cleveland Plain Dealer

The city of St. Louis is in the midst of an intense political debate—with mayoral consequences—on the subject of development incentives, which critics say just help the rich get richer.

February 13 - St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The end of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency may not come from the hands of President Trump or Scott Pruitt, the nominee to head the agency, but from a bill introduced Feb. 3 titled, "To terminate the Environmental Protection Agency."

February 13 - Fox Business

A symbol of urbanist affluence is getting its first reality check. 2017 has not been kind to brock and mortar retailers.

February 13 - Bloomberg

This research shows that renters in high-cost cities can be just as prone to NIMBYism as homeowners, even as they theoretically support more housing. This is housing supply's collective action problem.

February 13 - Joint Center for Housing Studies

The Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) released a statement on the Trump Administration executive order that enacted a 90-day suspension of visas and other immigration benefits to all nationals of seven Middle Eastern countries.

February 12 - ACSP