The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Legislation on the verge of approval in Massachusetts would enact a linkage fee, in effect, that would generate revenue for funding affordable housing.

August 8 - Governing

Repeal proponents have already planned a sequel for Proposition 6, regardless of whether the measure passes, resulting in the loss of over $5 billion annually from new transportation user fees, including a 12-cents per gallon gas tax increase.

August 8 - The Sacramento Bee

For doctors trying to provide mental health care to people who are incarcerated or detained by the New York City Department of Corrections, city jails pose a challenge — and provide an opportunity.

August 8 - Urban Omnibus

Oregon Metro's Regional Transportation Plan sets policy and project goals through 2040.

August 8 - Bike Portland

The $2.16 billion Transbay Transit Center opens to the public on August 11, with bus service launching on August 12.

August 8 - San Francisco Chronicle

The largest planning process in Denver's history has already completed two years of community engagement and planning work.

August 8 - The Denver Post

A series of new investments in the civic realm aren’t enough—some in Wheaton, Maryland want the community to catch up with its neighbors in providing a walkable town center.

August 8 - Bethesda Magazine

Cities around the country are scrambling with ways to accommodate monuments to a past that many consider as oppressive.

August 8 - National Public Radio

Columbus, Ohio has stood out from its midwest peer cities, with strong growth. Can the city keep it up?

August 8 - Forbes

The West Thames Street Pedestrian Bridge is over budget and will not be completed until late 2019.

August 8 - Crain's

State attorneys general and green groups are gearing up to fight the emissions rule rollback. Mayors would have a greater climate impact by helping their constituents drive less, argues Alissa Walker.

August 7 - Curbed

Chuck Wolfe reflects on his rapidly changing hometown, arguing that Seattle’s signature location and setting—however rearranged by the regrades of the past, Freeway Park, or a pending James Corner-led waterfront remake—remains for all to see.

August 7 - Crosscut

Anchorage officials have started to take a more assertive effort toward the clean up of nuisance buildings and properties that have become magnets for crime and other problems. This is the first clean-up of this scope since 2007.

August 7 - Anchorage Daily News

Politicians and residents are uniting to delay Ford GoBike's expansion around San Francisco.

August 7 - San Francisco Examiner

Richard Lewis Haag left a profound legacy in Seattle and the Pacific Northwest.

August 7 - The Cultural Landscape Foundation

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What responsibilities does an urban university engaged in the act of master planning have to the city of which it is a part, and to the greater public good?

August 7 - Dean Saitta

A system in disrepair is losing riders when it could use the fare box revenue the most.

August 7 - The New York Times

"Prices will march on as they have," even if regulations relax to allow more housing supply in the market, according to a recent study by the Federal Reserve.

August 7 - Forbes

A gaming video on the popular City Beautiful YouTube channel shows of the Sim City skills of a professional city planner.

August 7 - City Beautiful

Uber (and Lyft, of course) drivers and taxi drivers hope a cap on the number of ride-hailing vehicles would improve wages and reduce congestion.

August 7 - The New York Times