The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

The Federal Transit Administration announced a new round of funding for the Capital Investment Grants program last week.

April 15 - Federal Transit Administration

The Trump administration's "energy dominance" agenda depends, in part, on growing the energy distribution network, namely pipelines, rail facilities, and ports. However, states can use the Clean Water Act to block pipelines and coal terminals.

April 15 - InsideClimate News

Transit experts want to optimize the benefits of the biggest network of separated busways in the country.

April 15 - Pittsburgh City Paper

President Trump has not been a friend to the $30 billion Gateway Program, a transportation project meant to replace aging rail infrastructure connecting New York and New Jersey.

April 15 - Yahoo Finance

Set to begin construction this summer, the 65,000 square-foot Fusion Arena is set to be the nation's first built-from-scratch professional video gaming arena.

April 15 - CityLab

The automobile has been pitched as a machine for freedom, but travelling inside a small metal box, strapped to a chair, forced to focus on the road while your life is threatened by two-ton projectiles doesn’t sound like freedom to David Levinson.

April 15 - The Trasportist

Free fares and more frequent service have resulted in a huge increase in ridership on the TECO Line Streetcar and proved skeptics wrong.

April 14 - Streetsblog USA

FEATURE

With so many applications and intersections, planning can be hard to define. Planetizen Managing Editor James Brasuell is in San Francisco searching for meaning.

April 14 - James Brasuell

A program in New York brings artists into public agencies to work on collaborative projects that take creative approaches to problem solving.

April 14 - The New York Times

Couldn't make it to San Francisco for the 2019 National Planning Conference? Live vicariously through the magic of the Internet.

April 14 - American Planning Association

BLOG POST

Defenders of suburban expansion argue that government should build more roads in order to open up more land for housing. What's wrong with that argument?

April 14 - Michael Lewyn

The legislation would make nonprofit organizations more competitive in the real estate market by letting them get ahead of speculators.

April 13 - NextCity

The humble curb is getting crowded: not only with new modes of transportation, but also with a slew of new data tools aiming to keep track of it all.

April 13 - CityLab

In the run-up to a municipal primary scheduled for May 21, Philadelphia's City Council has introduced a range of bills to address housing affordability and tenants' rights.

April 13 - Next City

Voters in Lincoln, Nebraska have decided to tax sales in the city to fund repairs of residential streets and to add new streets on the periphery of the city to encourage growth.

April 13 - Lincoln Journal Star

More people than ever are traveling, but cities around the world are struggling to keep up. A new declaration aims to balance the benefits and challenges of tourism.

April 13 - Reuters

Improving streets in Sunset Park by removing cobblestones and aging train tracks has created a controversy between historic preservation and the need for safe bike and walking facilities and other streetscape improvements.

April 12 - Brooklyn Daily Eagle

And they said there were "no free rides."

April 12 - CityLab

Another buzzy tech company with roots in the real estate market has designs on the "smart cities" revolution.

April 12 - Quartz

The politics of the Department of the Interior under the Trump administration aren't likely to change, but new Secretary David Bernhardt is distinguishable from his predecessor thanks to a long history of oil industry lobbying.

April 12 - Vox