The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

The city of Chicago continues to see a decline in population, including tens of thousands of African-Americans who have left in recent years.

March 4 - The New York Times

The newest extension of the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail line is expected to serve 8,000 new residential units along the Hackensack River.

March 4 - NJ.com

The Andy Byford era is over, and an interim president by the name of Sarah Feinberg is running the New York MTA's buses and trains.

March 4 - Gothamist

City Observatory research shows that urban regions where residents drive less and rely more on other travel modes have more independent restaurants and more varied dining options. Bon appetit for walking, bicycling and public transit.

March 4 - City Observatory

Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, cofounders of Grafton Architects, take home the top award in the field of architecture in 2020.

March 3 - The Pritzker Architecture Prize

The state auditor and the transportation chief argue that the gas tax is an unsustainable funding source caused by a projected increase in electric vehicle adoption and an increase in fuel efficiency of gas-powered vehicles.

March 3 - The Salt Lake Tribune

In Manila and the San Francisco Bay Area, the severe impacts of rising sea levels are indisputable. But the only similarities are that both places face very uncertain futures.

March 3 - The New York Times

A new cease-and-desist zone, meant to control the activities of house flippers, is under consideration in the Brooklyn neighborhood of East New York, as well as state laws that would increase the real estate transfer tax.

March 3 - The City

The city of Phoenix is readying a public process to add several new bus rapid transit corridors to city streets, in accordance with the Phoenix Transportation 2050 plan.

March 3 - KJZZ

IndyGo transit officials are required to match transit income tax revenue with funding from private sources, but haven't yet met that end of the bargain. A new state law would hold IndyGo accountable to those requirements.

March 3 - Indianapolis Business Journal

A bi-partisan bill introduced in the U.S. Senate would inform better information sharing between federal agencies and local code-making powers to ensure more resilient infrastructure.

March 3 - U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisconsin)

Landlords and the NAACP agree on the need for property tax reform in New York City, but it took a lawsuit to get the city moving on reform, and the state is still dragging its feet.

March 3 - The New York Times

Republican state lawmakers repeated a tactic they successfully deployed last summer to prevent the passage of a bill that would have made Oregon the second state, after California, to place a price on carbon emissions from most economic sectors.

March 2 - The Washington Post

The NBA star says bikes have played an important role in his life, and he wants young people to have the same access and freedom that biking gave him.

March 2 - Outside

Electric vehicles and internal combustion automobiles emit vastly different sums of carbon, and electric vehicles are quickly widening the gap between the two options as the electricity generation industry cleans up its act.

March 2 - Union Of Concerned Scientists

A video explains the origin of the right of way concept that controls the flow of traffic through the public realm.

March 2 - City Beautiful

A federal bill intended to increase transparency in land use and zoning decisions as well as encourage localities to eliminate barriers to housing has advanced out of a House of Representative committee.

March 2 - Financial Services Republicans

A massive public transit planning effort is underway in the Charlotte region.

March 2 - Plan Charlotte

Case studies in dealing with population loss from Ohio, Maryland, and Massachusetts.

March 2 - The Guardian

A citywide network of public electric vehicle charging stations will be up and running later this year as part of a demonstration project.

March 2 - Smart Cities Dive