The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

The CoolClimate Network's Interactive Policy Tools calculate and compare the GHG reductions provided by various emission reduction policies. These tools can help households, businesses and communities identify the best emission reduction strategies.

August 25 - CoolClimate Network Smart Tools for a Cooler Planet

The program aims to improve access to jobs and economic opportunities for some of the city’s most underserved neighborhoods.

August 25 - Smart Cities Dive

Many urban cores around the country are faced with increasing office vacancies concurrently with a housing affordability crisis caused, at least in part, by a lack of supply. D.C. is particularly primed for a wave of adaptive reuse.

August 25 - Archinect

The city became the first in North Carolina to enact fines for landlords who fail to rent to recipients of federal housing vouchers.

August 25 - Governing

A NACTO report highlights the importance of bus-friendly policies and infrastructure for boosting ridership numbers and reducing urban congestion and pollution.

August 24 - Smart Cities Dive

With asphalt temperatures reaching as much as 150 degrees, parents and advocates are asking the city’s school district to provide more shade, trees, and other heat mitigation features on its schoolyards and playgrounds.

August 24 - CBS Los Angeles

Critics of free transit programs argue that free fares may not decrease driving or fight climate change. Dr. Destiny Thomas explains why that argument ‘misses the point.’

August 24 - Streetsblog USA

The city is investing more in biking, walking, and public transit, but a lack of funding and counterproductive moves from the Texas Department of Transportation are slowing the process of shifting away from personal automobile dependency.

August 24 - Houston Public Media

Experts have little hope that growing rent costs will stabilize anytime soon.

August 24 - Chicago Tribune

The West End neighborhood of Cincinnati is home to 6,000 residents but only one dine-in restaurant.

August 24 - Cincinnati Business Courier

Communities near transit stations will have to comply with a new set of regulations that support multifamily development and increased housing density.

August 24 - The Lowell Sun

FEATURE

EVs are great, but they’re not perfect. Let’s end their free ride.

August 24 - Adam Millard-Ball and Michael Manville

As extreme heat threatens infrastructure and public health, municipal ‘heat officers’ work to develop cooling strategies to keep urban residents safe from increasingly hot temperatures.

August 23 - Next City

Quick population growth is remaking Idaho, but focusing only on raw population numbers masks the demographic changes at work.

August 23 - KMTV News

The “Out of Reach 2022” report, published recently by the National Low Income Housing Coalition, paints a dire picture of a lack of housing affordability in the United States.

August 23 - SaportaReport

Fort Worth could spend $136 million on stormwater infrastructure and flood control over the next five years. In all, the city needs more like $1 billion of investment.

August 23 - Fort Worth Star-Telegram

An isolated train station north of Denver could become a hub of housing and commercial activity.

August 23 - The Denver Post

Rather than providing incentives to lure employers to their cities, local leaders should focus on supporting enough affordable workforce housing to accommodate new and existing residents.

August 23 - The Philadelphia Citizen

Advocates hope the city’s plan to install speed governors on part of its municipal fleet will prompt other cities and government agencies to follow suit.

August 23 - Bloomberg CityLab

When wealthy investors treat homes like poker chips, it is the tenants who end up losing. How do we interrupt the vicious cycle of speculation and displacement?

August 23 - Shelterforce Magazine