The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

One of the criticisms of gas taxes is that it is regressive, i.e., everyone pays the same per-gallon price. A Mississippi legislator has a solution: Eliminate the income tax on the lowest income bracket in exchange for hiking the gas tax 12-cents.

February 5 - Associated Press

USDOT hopes to put decades of data collection to new use preventing fatal collisions by predicting when they might occur.

February 5 - Eno Transportation Weekly

A co-curricular program at a Philadelphia medical school integrates public health and city planning.

February 5 - Next City

Major changes are coming to one of Sacramento's busiest commercial and commuting corridors.

February 5 - Sacramento Bee

Mayor Jesse Arreguín's charges about permissible heights, demolition of rent-controlled housing and displacement that would result from Senate Bill 827 by Sen. Wiener are refuted in the Berkeleyside article, though the latter two have resonance.

February 5 - Berkeleyside

A new $2.5 billion building plan could reshape the Brooklyn Navy Yard, again.

February 5 - Bloomberg

Despite decades of our raising the issue of displacement in the face of rising rents, many Americans still do not see this as a call-to-action or a failure of public policy. Here is why our housing messaging may be backfiring.

February 5 - Shelterforce/Rooflines

A discussion of the ongoing Regional Corridor Analysis, expected for completion later this year.

February 4 - Columbus Underground

Minneapolis officials are touting Super Bowl LII as "the most transit-reliant Super Bowl ever played."

February 4 - Smart Cities Dive

This isn't a joke about the Philadelphia Eagles. This story is about the deadly consequences of planning and architecture decisions.

February 4 - USA Today

Urbanists and planners might consider looking at the development outside U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis on Super Bowl Sunday. Gone are the vast parking lots surrounding the Metrodome, replaced with mixed use and a popular park, the Commons.

February 4 - The New York Times

When the Eagles and the Patriots face off this weekend, they'll do it at Minneapolis' U.S. Bank Stadium, a billion-dollar venue that "aspires to more than football."

February 4 - The Philadelphia Inquirer

The issue of wind and solar energy development has always been a hot button in the California desert, and the Trump Administration just pressed it.

February 3 - San Francisco Chronicle

All of Fulton County, Georgia except Atlanta (which has its own transit plans) is moving forward with a new transit agenda.

February 3 - Reporter Newspapers

Bloomberg Philanthropies recognized nine cities leading the trend toward better use of data in city governance practices.

February 3 - Smart Cities Dive

Santiago Calatrava has run into trouble over the maintenance of his bridge projects in the past—this time it looks like it's not his fault.

February 3 - Dallas Observer

Satellite images make some of the best maps.

February 3 - Local Authority of Building Control

Tolls and gas taxes—that's how Connecticut Governor Daniel P. Malloy plans on raising revenue for the state's troubled Special Transportation Fund.

February 2 - The Hartford Courant

The government of the Balearic Islands drafts new law that requires rental car companies to phase out fossil fuel vehicles and to switch to a 100% electric fleet by 2030.

February 2 - Cities of the Future

A new report from the Regional Plan Association, expected for release early next week, will provide suggestions for how the city of New York can empower community boards.

February 2 - AM New York