The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

The Denver Community Planning and Development department unrolled a new social media campaign this week utilizing #favoriteplacedenver to celebrate the city's unique characteristics.

August 23 - The Denver Post

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Aarhus University in Denmark understand for the first time the combined potential impacts of both climate and land-use change on plants, animals, and ecosystems throughout the United States.

August 23 - Science Daily

Andy Singer reviews the new Complete Streets Design Manual Draft for the city of Saint Paul, Minnesota.

August 23 - Streets MN

A new corridor planned as a haven for local gourmet food in the quiet Haut Marais neighborhood of Paris concerns residents with the threat of gentrification.

August 23 - New York Times

A new study found that commuters opting for active travel modes and rail are more satisfied with their commute than those who take bus, metro, or drive.

August 22 - Science Direct

On Wednesday, officials celebrated the final fiscal installment of the $2.3 billion 10-mile BART extension planned to open in 2018.

August 22 - San Jose Mercury

A new study confirmed that the average Los Angeles renter allocates 47 percent of their paycheck towards rent.

August 22 - KPCC

In November, voters in Cleveland can decide whether or not to ban the use of automatic traffic cameras to catch red-light violators.

August 22 - ideastream

The FXX cable network is amidst a massive marathon of all 552 episodes of the Simpsons. Joseph Rose, took a break from cartoon bliss to produce ten of his favorite scenes building jokes out of transportation experiences.

August 22 - The Oregonian

The 10-mile Colfax Ave corridor has the city's highest bus ridership but plagued by traffic congestion. After a 2-year study, bus rapid transit with dedicated lanes was selected by city and county staff as part of a $115 million investment strategy.

August 22 - The Denver Post

Adding 175 new stations by Spring 2015, the Divvy expansion would add 1,750 bicycles to the system in wards further away from the downtown core.

August 22 - Chicago Tribune

A study by computer scientists from the University of Michigan shows how easy it is to hack and control traffic lights.

August 22 - Vox

Brian Wilt, a data scientist at Jawbone, the company behind many fitness trackers, aggregated sleeping patterns of people across the world to see how people's sleeping cycles compare.

August 22 - Vox

Dave Munson discovered the neighborhoods throughout the United States that are both affordable by his salary and walkable.

August 22 - Munson's City

Parking guru Donald Shoup discusses how the city of Los Angeles can fix its roughly 4,300 miles of sidewalk that require some degree of repair, for free.

August 21 - Los Angeles Times

The recent purchase of land to close gaps in the Florida Greenways and Trails System resulted from partnerships between state, regional and county governments to protect land for recreation and conservation in the Sunshine State.

August 21 - The Palm Beach Post

In his latest essay on interpretation of the urban environment, Chuck Wolfe suggests that if we take away context clues cities become matrices -- with blank cells to complete -- where each of us personalizes how space meets time.

August 21 - The Huffington Post

Until recently, California's Monterey Shale was estimated to have the nation's highest amount of recoverable oil. Then the Energy Department revised their estimates, lowering it 96%, which turned out to be bad news for fracking moratorium advocates.

August 21 - Governing

Richard Reeves explains the factors that limit or assist social mobility for people born into the lowest economic quintile in American society.

August 21 - Brookings Institution

According to Yonah Freemark, there's folly in the way the federal government has been funding rail transit projects but failing to set standards for minimum service—a key indicator of transit ridership success.

August 21 - the transport politic