United States
A thriving natural environment creates opportunity for private developers and local economies, an economist argues.
New York Times
The official news of Amazon's choices for its second location broke this morning, but hot takes were streaming in all day.
Planetizen
A new report from Trulia reveals the quickly increasing number of neighborhoods in the country that have a median home price touching seven figures.
Curbed
Driving is often marketed as fun and liberating, but millennials aren’t buying it.
Chicago Tribune
The reported selection of New York and Washington, D.C. as the dual winners of the Amazon HQ2 competition was officially announced this morning. Still, Amazon wasn't done with the surprises.
Planetizen
Suburban poverty is reading, here are a few ways to understand what that means.
Build a Better Burb
The news about veteran homelessness rising in expensive cities might come as a surprise, after years of reported progress.
How Housing Matters
We're not sure if planners will find this game, since it's so close to real life, but maybe it will make a good recommendation for friends and family members?
Greater Greater Washington
Nationwide, voters approved nearly 70 percent of transportation ballot measures on the ballot.
Eno Center for Transportation
Linking zoning reform mandates to CDBG funding is not an effective way to change exclusionary zoning.
Brookings
Feature
Election results from every corner of the country.
The first examples of bus rapid transit built int he United States, all within the last ten years, are improving speeds and outperforming ridership projections, according to analysis by Streetsblog USA.
Streetsblog USA
According to leaked information, Northern Virginia, Dallas, and New York City were in the lead in the competition to land the location of the second Amazon headquarters. Now sources report the company will split the HQ2 footprint between two cities.
New York Times
The official case for repealing car fuel-economy rules is so full of errors it will be hard to defend in court.
The Atlantic
The founder of New Urbanism takes his autonomous vehicle skepticism, and ideas for other solutions to congestion, to the pages of the New York Times.
The New York Times
It might take a new administration for climate change to be of concern to the federal government again.
The Guardian
A new report from CBRE identifies the extent of the tech industry's expanding footprint in the United States, and where it might be headed next.
CBRE
Modern zoning practices separated uses, claiming this was a better way to organize American cities. However, the social, cultural, and urban design outcomes drastically changed the world we live in.
Greater Greater Washington
Nico Larco presents a TEDx Talk on the impacts AVs will have on cities, including impacts on land use, land valuation, and the environment. AVs are more than just a transportation issue, and planners need to prepare for the coming changes.
TEDx Talk
An app called Surveyor is making it easier to collect better data on curbs.
VentureBeat
