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Critics of Mayor Bill de Blasio's "Five-Borough Bikeshare" program argue that Citi Bike should be expanded instead.

June 2 - Crain's New York Business

An annual report aggregates the State of the City speeches of mayors all over the country.

June 2 - National League Of Cities

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The 2019 National Planning Conference will introduce new tracks in Housing, Community and Economic Development; International, Comparative and Global Planning; Small Town and Rural Planning; and Academic and Professional Research.

June 2 - Bruce Stiftel

FiveThirtyEight explores how planners in the Midwest are trying to get ahead of an intensifying climate.

June 1 - FiveThirtyEight

The local developer is accused of inflating property values and defrauding a program meant to spur investment in distressed areas.

June 1 - St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Cities can't have it both ways on the housing crisis, asserts an SF Chronicle editorial. Case in point: Berkeley passes a resolution to declare homelessness a state of emergency while opposing legislation to allow BART to develop its parking lots.

June 1 - San Francisco Chronicle

Buoyed by a strong economy and robust fundraising, a wide variety of arts institutions in Milwaukee want to remodel or relocate to new buildings. Here's a look at some of their plans.

June 1 - Urban Milwaukee

A number of cities are considering hiking up taxes on vacant properties. But does that actually lead to a reduction in blight?

June 1 - Governing

In neighborhoods with lots of new development, buildings cited in the Chicago Historic Resources Survey are coming down fast.

June 1 - Chicago Magazine

A homeowners group has successfully moved to severely limit public access to the beaches of Hollister Ranch, a 14,500-acre parcel to the west of Santa Barbara.

June 1 - The Los Angeles Times

The hulking structures proposed to handle UberAIR's fleet of flying taxis won't be able to serve 4,000 passengers per hour. And that's just one of their many deficiencies, Alissa Walker writes.

June 1 - Curbed

At a recent public appearance, Dan Gilbert gave rare insight into the business success of Quicken Loans and its connection to the revitalization of Detroit.

June 1 - Detroit Free Press

(Even if they don't talk about it very much.)

June 1 - The Conversation

Years before there was e-scooter-share, there was electric (Vespa-like) scooter-share in San Francisco by start-up Scoot. Now that they are ready to launch electric bikeshare, the city won't let them, unlike Barcelona, Spain where it began service.

May 31 - San Francisco Chronicle

Cheap water flows freely to the golf courses of St. George, Utah, but all the new residents mean it’s going to have to increase supply or reduce demand—or both.

May 31 - CityLab

The Washington State Transportation Commission has begun the planning process to determine the toll schedule for the tunnel that replaces part of the Alaskan Way Viaduct that opens this fall. They must raise six percent of the $3.3 billion cost.

May 31 - GeekWire

San Diego has the fewest number of beds for homeless per capita in the nation and must directly intervene to increase the stock of both temporary and permanent beds, according to planning activist Murtaza Baxamusa.

May 31 - UrbDeZine

The Metro Region Explorer allows the public new kinds of understanding about the city of New York and how it fits into the surrounding region.

May 31 - Next City

Peter Rogerson crunches the numbers on 50 years of demographic shifts.

May 31 - CityLab

The "Loop" is the latest manifestation of Elon Musk's transportation fantasies, offering "personal rapid transit" to and from anywhere in Los Angeles without any congestion or cost.

May 31 - Los Angeles Times