Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Urban planning

Talking Headways Podcast: The Built Environment Memory Hole

By Jeff Wood | Sep 9, 2021 | No Comments

This week we’re joined by Tufts Professor Justin Hollander. Hollander chats with us about a range of topics, including VMT Taxes, using eye-tracking software to measure the effects of the built environment on people’s minds, and the most recent census release.

Data might say that there's no reason to improve the quality of this bus stop because no one uses it — except that no one is using it because it's so bad.

In God We Trust; Everyone Else Bring Data

By Vince DiMiceli | Jun 24, 2021 | No Comments

The simplest way to convince the public to move forward with policies that best serve it is to give the raw numbers that back up great ideas, a top urban planer told transit advocates during an online seminar aimed at better urban planning.

Talking Headways Podcast: Down on Main Street

By Jeff Wood | Apr 22, 2021 | No Comments

Let's talk with Mindy Fullilove about the psychology of place, the strength of weak ties, and how cities are a part of nature.

Buttigieg Must Fix Traffic Control Standards

By Kea Wilson | Feb 8, 2021 | No Comments

The feds will finally revise the Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices, which sets standards for signs, markings and signals that help road users — and, eventually, autonomous vehicles — safely move through our communities.

"My own city of Berkeley, [pictured], renowned for its “progressive” values and liberal politics...has suppressed new housing of all kinds and now has an almost unsolvable problem of affordability and homelessness." Source: Joe Parks via Creative Commons.

Opinion: We Must Plan Racial Justice In Our Cities

By Dorothy Walker | Aug 3, 2020 | No Comments

The founding president of the American Planning Association stands against structural racism in the built environment professions.

A May 30 Black Lives Matter protest in Philadelphia, Pa. Source: Joe Piette via Creative Commons.

Op-Ed: Whose Streets? Black Streets

By Amina Yasin | Jun 24, 2020 | No Comments

Planners and urbanists, it’s time to reckon with the racism rampant in city building. Here are four actions to take.