United States

A Washington Post/ABC News poll released Jan. 17 showed the exact opposite result of a Reuters/Ipsos poll released two days later on the financing for President Trump's $1 trillion infrastructure plan. However, the polls took different approaches.

January 26, 2017 - The Washington Post

In light of President Trump's comments about infrastructure in his inaugural address and during the campaign, Penn IUR asked its urban experts to respond to the question: What should the United States do about urban infrastructure?

January 26, 2017 - Penn IUR Urban Link

Making the case for reduced speed limits is a matter of life and death.

January 25, 2017 - Walk Arlington

Historic tax credits are common at the state level—though they are contested and championed on a recurring basis all over the country.

January 25, 2017 - National Trust For Historic Preservation

The question of whether the largest generation in U.S. history will maintain its lover affair with urban living is either the elephant in the room of the million dollar question.

January 25, 2017 - The New York Times

Fulfilling two campaign promises, President Trump conditionally approved two controversial pipelines to transport oil sands from Alberta and Bakken oil from North Dakota, certain to stir opposition from environmentalists and Native Americans.

January 24, 2017 - USA Today

Republican-sponsored congressional legislation would rescind a landmark achievement of the Department of Housing and Urban Development during the Obama Administration.

January 24, 2017 - National Low Income Housing Coalition

Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt suggested that as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency he might not allow California to set its own stricter motor vehicle emissions standards.

January 24, 2017 - Los Angeles Times

A review and summary of Janette Sadik-Kahn's "Street Fight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution," by Bay Area architect and environmentalist Todd Jersey.

January 24, 2017 - UrbDeZine

It may be the last U.S. contribution the fund sees for some time.

January 23, 2017 - Grist

Just because a study says density is more effective than energy system retrofits in reducing emissions, doesn't mean that we have to settle for just one.

January 23, 2017 - Grist

A Reuters' poll on a national infrastructure investment program shows some support for a plan similar to one suggested, though not detailed, by Elaine Chao, President Trump's nominee for transportation secretary.

January 22, 2017 - Reuters

Well, that didn't take long! Goodbye Obama Clean Action Plan and restrictive environmental regulations; hello shale oil and gas revolution.

January 22, 2017 - Planetizen

The Brookings Institution has announced a new "Moving to Access" initiative.

January 21, 2017 - Brookings Institution

Disavowing the perils of NIMY-ism. The difference between stability and sameness and allowing a city to change

January 21, 2017 - Modern Cities

A reduction of Federal Housing Administration (FHA) annual mortgage insurance premium rates was scheduled to take effect on January 27. One of the Trump Administration's first actions was to suspend the reduction.

January 20, 2017 - Reuters via Yahoo News

When we start to liken housing and neighborhood cycles to the kinds of predictable, unstoppable cycles found in nature, we may find ourselves in a dangerous trap.

January 20, 2017 - Shelterforce/Rooflines

Reports from inside the Trump transition are that the incoming administration will follow a budget blueprint laid out by the Heritage Foundation—public transit not included.

January 20, 2017 - The Hill

An open letter to President-elect Donald Trump, signed by 276 architecture and design firms, argues that the country's new leader should build the economy by protecting the environment.

January 20, 2017 - The Architect's Newspaper

Age is only a number, they say. But that number is growing for the nation's housing stock, just like for the rest of us.

January 19, 2017 - Realtor Magazine Online