The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

The New York Department of City Planning is keeping itself on the cutting edge of internet technology.

March 11 - New York Department of City Planning

Weather plays a big factor in the "smart cities" technology experiments in development by Sidewalk Labs for its Toronto pilot project.

March 11 - The Star

A new bill would grant the Housing Alliance for the Bay Area taxing authority to raise revenue in the nine-county region to find solutions to the housing crisis. Another bill would reduce the voter threshold below two-thirds for eligible taxes.

March 11 - KQED News

Measure HHH promised to build 10,000 new units of homeless housing units in the city of Los Angeles. Two years later, not a single unit has been added.

March 11 - Los Angeles Magazine

The developers of the Hudson Yards development in New York want to change its deal with union employees as it moves into the second phase of construction.

March 11 - Crain's New York Business

Train fans rejoice.

March 11 - Greater Greater Washington

"Add Pennsylvania to the list of places reviewing whether to consider a hyperloop system and the effect such systems might have on existing modes of transportation."

March 11 - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

FEATURE

Deborah Marton, executive director of the New York Restoration Project, connects parks and open space to improved public safety.

March 11 - Deborah Marton

Analyzing the potential outcomes of Senate Bill 10, one of two statewide upzoning bills under consideration in the state of Oregon this year.

March 10 - Sightline Institute

A new paper accounts for all the ways "the legal system puts its thumb on the scale for drivers to the detriment of everyone else: transit users, cyclists and pedestrians."

March 10 - Streetsblog USA

The auto industry appears to be balking at supporting the Trump administration's plan to freeze vehicle emission standards at 2020 levels even though they initially asked Trump to loosen the rigorous Obama-era fuel efficiency rule that goes to 2026.

March 10 - The Washington Post

Minneapolis wants to diversify its neighborhood organizations, racially and economically. The Neighborhoods 2020 plan would require those organizations to meet diversity standards.

March 10 - MinnPost

One transit rider sings the praises of an experiment that allows Toronto transit riders a two-hour window of unlimited transfers on the TTC system.

March 10 - The Star

It turns out that the United States isn't rapidly becoming a nation of renters after all.

March 9 - The Washington Post

Cost and economic development considerations supersede mobility considerations in the planning for Charlotte's planned light rail line.

March 9 - WFAE

A new study puts a number of the risk of land use to the planet's biodiversity.

March 9 - Quartz

The St. Paul Planning Commission will consider 32 proposed amendments to the Master Plan for a massive development project located at the former site of a Ford assembly plant.

March 9 - Pioneer Press

Singapore has ambitious plans for an autonomous public transportation system. New full-sized buses and an upcoming trial run will put the country closer to its goals.

March 9 - Bloomberg

Malls in metropolitan Atlanta are thinking outside the (big) box to reposition in the age of the retail apocalypse.

March 8 - Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Remember Elaine Herzberg, the 49-year-old woman who became the first pedestrian fatality due to an autonomous vehicle when she was hit last March by an Uber with a safety driver in Tempe, Ariz.? Prosecutors found no criminal liability.

March 8 - The New York Times