The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

With the New York State legislature expected to pass a tolling plan for Manhattan early next week, the Chronicle's Rachel Swan reports on the unlikelihood of a similar plan being adopted in San Francisco or any city in the Golden State.

March 29 - San Francisco Chronicle

The list of challenges facing transit agencies like the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority is long. The list of feasible projects that can deliver solutions is much shorter.

March 29 - philly.com

An audit describes a number of issues with the city’s program to identify and remove illegal encampments.

March 29 - Oregon Live

The state of Washington's 1990 Growth Management Act requires regions to create long-range growth plans. The Puget Sound Region Council is currently working on its latest iteration of the plan.

March 29 - Crosscut

Nashville Mayor David Briley this week launched the most ambitious affordable housing program in the city's lengthy history.

March 29 - The Tennessean

The use of level of service (LOS) to gauge the success of roadway networks has shaped and influenced cities in many negative ways.

March 29 - Brookings / The Avenue

The Brooklyn-Queens Expressway needs work, but the various proposals have very different visions about how to tackle the project and what the final outcome will be.

March 29 - Curbed New York

Fornite is one of the fastest growing multiplayer games in the history of games, with over 125 million players in one year. A teenager Fortnite player publishes a collection of images from the major cities in the game.

March 29 - Grant Reviews Blog

The quirky hilltop home is visible from the freeway, and commuters love it. The city, however, does not.

March 28 - SF Gate

Bike advocates are starting to worry about Mayor Jenny Durkan's lack of a track record in building new bike infrastructure.

March 28 - The Urbanist

Controversies short-circuited similar legislation in 2018, but the Cincinnati City Council is taking up the issues surrounding short-term rentals again this year.

March 28 - WVXU Cincinnati

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development escalated its actions against Facebook, even after the social media giant had settled a lawsuit with civil rights organizations and taken steps to reform its advertising system.

March 28 - The New York Times

London's 'Ultra Low Emission Zone' is taking effect in April. Here are the details on the ambitious clean air plans.

March 28 - BBC

On top of plans to build a new ballpark, the Oakland Athletics have proposed developing 6,000 units of housing. Half would be located at the new site near Jack London Square, and the other half at the current Oakland Coliseum site.

March 28 - The Los Angeles Times

A book by Loretta Lees and Martin Phillips, published in 2018, is reviewed and recommended to "graduates studying anthropology of cities, urbanism, geography, and new urban identities."

March 28 - Electronic Green Journal

As Montgomery County, Maryland considers a new law to allow more development of accessory dwelling units. The devil is in the details.

March 28 - Bethesda Magazine

The nation's capital could soon join the 122 U.S. municipalities with open streets events.

March 28 - Curbed Washington D.C.

The world is changing, and some state departments of transportation are still stuck in the 20th century. New research provides guidance for DOTs looking to break old habits of car dependency and obsessions with level of service.

March 28 - Governing

BLOG POST

In Order Without Design, Alain Bertaud takes a middle position between consistent supporters of suburbia and sprawl critics.

March 27 - Michael Lewyn

The Globe and Mail editorial board points out the obvious hypocrisies of the global response to an aviation tragedy relative to the ongoing tragedies that occur every day as a result of the world's reliance on automobiles.

March 27 - Globe and Mail