Planetizen

• An Argument for a Graduated Real Estate Transfer Tax in Chicago
• Atlanta Housing Authority Changing Course as Affordable Housing Problems Grow
• Discounted New York MTA Passes Coming Next Year
• Watch Saturday Night Live's Hilarious Take on Amazon's HQ2 Decision
• Snow, 'Bureaucratic Snafu,' and Gun Shots: Rough First Day for Trolley Service in St. Louis
• Vancouver Launching its First Citywide Plan Since 1928
• How San Francisco Ran Out of Affordable Housing Funds, and What to Do About It
• How Microgrids Are Changing the Energy Game
• Sunday Fun: Take a Google Earth Flyover Tour of Tokyo's Yamanote Line
• Kansas City Trying New Approaches to Affordable Housing

The Transport Politic

• On the ballot in 2018, a clear contrast among those who would move into Governors’ mansions
• The politics of wishful thinking: American cities and their commitment to the expressway
• U.S. transit systems are shedding riders. Are they under threat?
• Nashville plans for a big boost in local transit, and is hoping its voters will step on board
• In response to growth, Chinese cities choose metros
• A year into the Trump Presidency, federal transit support limps along
• Openings and Construction Starts Planned for 2018
• In a simple move, Toronto transforms a streetcar line into something far more useful
• The case of the missing platform doors
• A generational failure: As the U.S. fantasizes, the rest of the world builds a new transport system

Institute for Local Self-Reliance

• Reigning in Dollar Stores (Episode 59)
• Colorado Town Leaders Decide to Move Forward on Publicly Owned Network Project
• Energy Democracy Media Roundup — Week of November 12, 2018
• Solar Co-ops Support Clean Energy Advances in D.C. — Episode 64 of Local Energy Rules Podcast
• Americans Voted Directly on Policies As Well As People
• Support the 6th National Cultivating Community Composting Forum!
• ILSR Convenes the 6th National Cultivating Community Composting Forum
• Tax Change Deters Rural Co-ops From Expanding Internet Access
• How Cities Can Fund Their 100% Renewable Ambitions
• How Did Renewable Energy Fare at the Ballot Box? (2018 Election Edition)

Transportation for America

• Why don’t DOTs pick routes like we do?
• Mixed messages on transportation at the ballot box this week
• Crookston, MN: Where investment in public transit and hard-working Americans “help buses come alive”
• Florida is out in front on driverless vehicles
• Cities eager to receive transit dollars from USDOT are receiving letters instead
• A bipartisan effort to help states and metro areas determine if their transportation systems get you there
• Cities left in the dark by an agency that once partnered with them to build new transit
• How cities can reduce traffic instead of just ensuring more of it
• Here’s the full speaker lineup for Capital Ideas 2018
• Lyft is paying people to ditch their cars. Will it work?

National Trust for Historic Preservation

Next City

• Tulsans Betting that Remote Workers Will Fall in Love with Tulsa
• Austin’s Housing Authority Flexes New Muscles in Expansion
• The Amazonians Are Coming. How Will They Get to Work?
• Kansas City’s Quest for a Real Housing Policy
• Who’s Bucking the Trend on Diversity in High-Tech Jobs?
• D.C. Moves to Limit Short-Term Rentals
• The Largest Indoor Recreational Space in Chicago, and So Much More
• What Philadelphia Could Gain from Expanding Legal Aid for Tenants
• Waymo Self-Driving Taxis Will Launch in Phoenix in December
• Amazon Makes It Official: Two HQ2 Locations to Split Jobs and Investment

American Planning Association (APA) Sustaining Places

• The Role of Public Markets in Community Building
• Great Places: Revitalization Through Public Private Partnerships
• Planning for Great Places in Asheville, North Carolina
• What Can Your Street Do for You? Physical Activity … and BEYOND!
• What Do You Do When You Have Too Much Vacant Land?
• Planning and Community Health: Making the Case for Healthy Communities
• Can’t Decide on a Color for Your Infrastructure? Try Green
• LandscapePerformance.org: Demonstrating the Value of Sustainable Landscapes
• Metrics for Density Help Promote Sustaining Places
• Detroit Bike City

American Planning Association (APA) Policy News For Planners

• White House ‘Opportunity Project’ Harnesses Open Data Technologies for Communities
• A Game Changer for Kansas City
• Support CDBG — Sign the National Letter Today
• APA Partners with HUD on Solutions for Local Prosperity
• President’s FY 2017 Budget in Detail: Conservation, Water, Hazard Mitigation, and Federal Data
• President’s FY 2017 Budget in Detail: Department of Housing and Urban Development
• President’s FY 2017 Budget in Detail: Department of Transportation
• President Unveils Final Budget Proposal, Congress Begins Budget Work
• Why I Voted in the New Hampshire Primary
• Obama to Release His Final Budget Tomorrow: Why Does It Matter to Planners?

Project for Public Spaces

• PPS’s Top 10 Placemaking Articles of 2017
• Conference Report Now Available for Placemaking Week Amsterdam
• Placemaking Gets Organized: The Growth of Regional Movements in 2017
• Now Accepting Proposals for Walk/Bike/Places 2018 in New Orleans
• Still Waiting for a Nice Place to Sit
• Google’s Urban Experiment in Toronto: A Q&A with Sidewalk Labs’ Rit Aggarwala
• Guest Post: Sidi Gomes on the Case for Semi-Public Spaces
• Placemaking with Staying Power: Kresge Report on Sustaining Public Spaces
• Great Places in the Great Lakes State: 20 Years of Placemaking in Michigan
• Celebrating 75 Years of Fred Kent, and 50 Years of Placemaking

The Atlantic Cities

• Why Virginia's Restoration of Voting Rights Matters
• Introducing a New Map for Semi-Autonomous Cars
• San Francisco's Public Transit App Will Let You Rate Your Commute
• Inside the Architecture of Shenzhen's Urban Villages
• Compton Faces a New Spike in Violence
• Are the Most Famous Firms in Architecture Dueling?
• The Night Streets of Tokyo, Captured 'Blade Runner'-Style
• The Simple Icons of Major Social Change
• Yes, Paris Is Banning Cars Built Before 1997
• The Rise of Resilience Planning