The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

There have been many attempts to redesign Penn Station, but not all of them were created equal.

February 2 - New York

Indiana's fifth-largest city, of just under 100,000, residents has 120 roundabouts, more than any city in the U.S., and only 14 traffic lights. The average traffic fatality rate is 83 percent lower than the national average.

February 2 - Smart Cities Dive

The San Francisco Chronicle's urban design critic tempers expectations for Market Street in San Francisco, where the city this week undertook an ambitious, but perhaps over-sold, redesign of the busy street.

January 31 - The San Francisco Chronicle

Unleashed Hounds and Hops is calling itself the state of Minnesota's first dog bar.

January 31 - StarTribune

The market and construction costs are taking a toll on development ambitions in Detroit.

January 31 - Crain's Detroit Business

Upzoning is gaining popularity among planners and politicians in parts of the country as a tool for affordability. But some opponents of the idea maintain that new density will only make housing affordability worse.

January 31 - Curbed

FEATURE

Lee D. Einsweiler, principal and co-founder of Code Studio, offers practiced insight on the relationship between planning and implementation, as well as guidance for a fulfilling career navigating the two.

January 30 - James Brasuell

Could vacancy taxes solve multiple housing challenges at once?

January 30 - WBUR

In every phase of transit development, arts and culture strategies can be employed to inform and enhance the process. Here are examples from three different transit projects around the country.

January 30 - Shelterforce Magazine

GM's first non-internal combustion engine vehicle assembly plant will be in the form of 35-year-old plant straddling the Detroit-Hamtramck border thanks in part to a $2.27 billion state tax credit. Electric pickups, SUVs, and AVs will be produced.

January 30 - Detroit Free Press

For the third year in a row, an effort to increase density near transit in statewide in California has stalled in the legislature.

January 30 - Los Angeles Times

The public is getting a chance to give feedback on the city's proposed changes to a project that would realign and widen Interstate 45 near downtown Houston.

January 30 - Houston Chronicle

Congressional Democrats hope transportation infrastructure can be a winning political point during a campaign year following the impeachment of President Donald Trump.

January 30 - The Hill

Residents are arguing that a Williamsburg development would negatively affect the neighborhood. But it’s a grassroots effort to protect the status quo in a neighborhood where gentrification benefited them.

January 30 - New York Post

Amidst a crisis of housing affordability around the country, one media organization is leveraging public records law to discover answers to questions, long obscured from the public, about who controls the real estate market.

January 29 - KPBS

If passed, a new law would require homeless shelter developments in New York City to undergo the full Uniform Land Use Review Procedure.

January 29 - Staten Island Advance

The historic, car-free transformation of San Francisco's busiest street opens to the public today.

January 29 - London Breed via Medium

A plan to sell water intended for agricultural uses to help fuel the development of a city on the edge of the Phoenix metropolitan area has inspired new state legislation.

January 29 - Arizona Republic

A new report from the World Economic Forum predicts dire consequences for congestion and carbon emissions if e-commerce delivery services proliferate unchecked.

January 29 - Supply Chain DIve

A recent study claiming that transportation costs in Houston, among other expenses, raise the cost of living almost to the same level as living in New York City. Some took exception to the study's methodology.

January 29 - E21