Colorado
The Denveright plan puts pedestrians first, but could do more for public transportation and bikes, says a critique from Streetsblog Denver.
Streetsblog Denver
As Denver continues to grow, the cost of housing in the city remains high for many. In response, the city plans to build 6,000 affordable units over the next five years.
Colorado Springs Gazette
The largest planning process in Denver's history has already completed two years of community engagement and planning work.
The Denver Post
An architect makes the case for future-proofing new parking garages so they can easily shift to other uses in a future with fewer cars.
Fast Company
Fire season is back, and it's not safe to breathe in huge swaths of the world.
The Mercury News
The law would prohibit Denver landlords from refusing Section 8 vouchers as rental payment.
Denverite
Congress and presidents have threatened Amtrak service on the Southwest Chief, connecting Los Angles to Chicago, in the past. This time the threat is coming from inside Amtrak.
The Kansan
Low-income residents are more likely to use transit, and transit needs riders. The relationship seems ripe for mutual benefit.
TransitCenter
There's a lot to like about the resurgence of downtown cores. But as is the case elsewhere, Denver's core has only attracted a small subset of the wider city's population. Most people still call the suburbs home.
The Denver Post
Initiative 66, which would have imposed strict development limits around the Front Range, ran out of steam.
The Denver Post
The U.S. Department of Transportation is investing in Colorado's highways.
The Denver Post
Very preliminary studies are underway in Colorado about what it would take to build a 360-mile Hyperloop system in the Denver region.
The Denver Post
Prices remain depressed in most formerly redlined neighborhoods, but several such areas in Denver now boast higher home values than the city as a whole.
The Denver Post
Colorado cities located north of Denver consider the future of water as the region grows. New infrastructure and new partnerships will be necessary to meet demand for water in the future.
The Denver Post
Aerial photos show just how completely some areas of the city were transformed before the building typology was eliminated earlier this week.
The Denver Post
Colorado is taking 'baby steps' toward a thoroughly regulated regime of social marijuana use.
The Denver Post
Marijuana production comes down to a question of the availability of industrial zoning. Denver is the poster child, but other cities are seeing similar trends.
Pacific Standard
Cities across America have a housing crisis on their hands—should they be talking more about trailer parks?
CityLab
As the Department of the Interior auctions off 'vast swaths' of American wilderness to oil and gas companies, fiscal conservatives and conservationists alike wonder if it’s the right thing at the right time.
Houston Chronicle
They call it a "Safety Stop" in Colorado, but it's the same idea.
Streetsblog Denver
