News

https://www.planetizen.com/node/95578?utm_source=newswire&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=news-11022017

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/21/google-urban-cities-planning-data

Optimists predict that autonomous vehicles will be a transportation panacea, but there are good reasons to be skeptical. They may create as many problems as they solve.

https://www.planetizen.com/blogs/95445-many-problems-autonomous-vehicles

Analysis looks at a decade of data to determine which communities are undergoing dynamic transformations, and which are standing still.

https://www.planetizen.com/node/95448?utm_source=newswire&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=news-10262017

The largest survey of inclusionary housing to date contrasts the efficacy of policies across the United States.

https://www.planetizen.com/node/95466?utm_source=newswire&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=news-10262017

As part of the deal, NuTonomy will combine more than 100 employees, including 70 engineers and scientists, to Delphi's more than 100-member automated driving team. After the transaction is completed, Delphi will have self-driving operations in Boston, Pittsburgh, Singapore, Santa Monica, and Silicon Valley; NuTonomy will continue to be based in Boston, where both companies currently operate pilot programs. By combining efforts with NuTonomy in Boston, Singapore, and other pilot cities around the world, Delphi will have 60 autonomous cars on the road across three continents by years end.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/24/16533534/delphi-nutonomy-acquisition-450-million-self-driving

The small town of Isafjordur, Iceland is hoping an optical illusion painted onto a street will work to slow down drivers.

https://www.planetizen.com/node/95330?utm_source=newswire&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=news-10192017

https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/amsterdam-traffic-lights-removed

"In a market where buildable land goes quickly to private developers paying cash — or investors who sit on the property and wait for its value to rise — nonprofit builders are at a definite disadvantage. Boston Mayor Marty Walsh wants to level that building field, and his administration has announced an $8.5 million program designed to help nonprofits acquire parcels for affordable housing."

https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/news-boston-affordable-housing-developers-rethink-vacant-lots

An obscure ordinance published by the Department of Commerce in 1928 has had arguably the largest affect on how U.S. cities are developed. But a new, simple, two-sentence subdivision ordinance could actually result in much better places, and much better cities.

http://www.moderncities.com/article/2017-oct-two-simple-sentences-could-reshape-suburban-america