The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Breakthrough Institute co-founder, Ted Nordhaus, explores the etymology of "carrying capacity" from a shipping term to a biological term, but objects to its application to human population. Richard Heinberg of the Post Carbon Institute responds.

August 10 - Aeon

The settlement closes another chapter in the saga of the methane leak that caused an evacuation of a corner of Los Angeles from October 2015 to February 2016.

August 10 - Los Angeles Daily News

Conservationists got a little help from some perhaps surprising sources in winning a designation for the Mokelumne River as the latest Wild and Scenic River in California.

August 10 - Water Deeply

Vancouver combined environmental goals and traffic safety goals.

August 10 - Sightline Institute

A new interactive map keeps residents up to date on where the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency is working on new projects.

August 10 - San Francisco Examiner

A more-than-6oo-square-mile city can get hard to map in our minds, especially when it blends so seamlessly into surrounding cities.

August 10 - Houston Chronicle

The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority is undertaking a series of videos asking for polite and courteous behavior from riders.

August 10 - The Boston Globe

The Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet has sounded an alarm about the state of the state's water infrastructure.

August 10 - WFPL

Some cities treat skateboarders like a plague, and that's a planning faux pas, according to this article.

August 10 - Greater Greater Washington

The Tampa Bay Rays still play at Tropicana Field, but they won't forever. The redevelopment opportunity for the site will be a game changer for the city.

August 10 - Tampa Bay Times

It's going to be tough to be a transit user in the Seattle suburb of Everett.

August 9 - The Urbanist

Mexico-Queretaro train project was halted in 2015 as part of PRI budget cuts, but the incoming administration says they're interested in restarting the project.

August 9 - Mexico News Daily

Metra is revamping to the downtown train station in the Chicago suburb of Libertyville.

August 9 - Daily Herald

A controversial new sales tax on motor vehicles in a state with no sales taxes survived a court challenge. As a result, Oregon consumers will have another reason to consider purchasing or leasing an electric vehicle: receiving up to a $5,000 rebate.

August 9 - Utility Dive

Car crashes are the leading cause of death for U.S. teens, and while parents often instruct teens not to text and drive, they admit to texting and driving at about the same rates as teenage drivers.

August 9 - Chicago Tribune

Concern about the city's supply of affordable housing is one of the key messages from the recent "geography of Jobs" report published by the New York Department of City Planning.

August 9 - The Real Deal

The popular game Minecraft offers deep lessons what building in the virtual world means in the real world.

August 9 - Places Journal

The U.S. power system is split into three separate sections with very little overlap. A more seamless infrastructure could deliver benefit, but a new study, still unpublished, is the first to take on the question of how much benefit.

August 9 - NREL

The Willamette Week put out a call for tips about electric scooter users acting badly. They got an earful of the unexpected.

August 9 - Willamette Week

A local block association leader expresses frustration with the development approvals process in New York City.

August 9 - Crain's New York Business