Urban Planning

The eastern Washington city will likely enter the ranks of municipalities barring the use of so-called algorithmic software that recommends rent increases based on shared, private data.

Save Our Sunsets convened a gathering to offer updates on potential transmission lines, wind, solar and data centers, and battery storage in Payne County. County commissioners were among those attending.

Transportation technology leaders gathered in Los Angeles this week for the annual CoMotion LA conference, where they examined recent innovative endeavors and the issues shaping mobility today.

It was pulled from consideration this spring, but City Council members are now reconsidering a ban on the use of algorithms to set residential rents. A key issue is whether it would discourage housing developers.

After a pilot project decreased wait times at a busy intersection by 25 percent to 30 percent, a city in the Bay Area is expanding use of AI-driven systems to detect traffic and instruct signals to speed up or slow down.

A test run of ShotSpotter technology announced in 2024 was funded by part of an $800,000 federal grant. The project was never activated; the decision follows a “comprehensive reassessment” of police priorities.

Even with diminished federal funding, organizers of the Baltimore-Social Environmental Collaborative plan to empower community members to keep collecting data and putting it to use.

The sixth annual New York City Minecraft Education Battle of the Boroughs invites teams of K-12 students to redesign city spaces for inclusivity, this time focusing on Pier 6 at the MADE Bush Terminal Campus in Brooklyn.

Researchers at the University of Texas at San Antonio are using AI and digital twin technology, or digital replicas of physical homes, to study potential renovation options that could lessen heat's effects on residents.

SafeTraffic Copilot, created by engineers at Johns Hopkins University, uses large language models to analyze huge amounts of data and predict how changes to streets, signs or lights could affect collision frequency.

The St. Louis Midtown Redevelopment Corp., a city development authority, has indicated it will not support tax incentives for a data center proposed near the Armory in Midtown. Opposition to the project continues.

The state’s premiere such facility will be located at the onetime Loring Air Force Base in Limestone. It is expected to comprise 115,000 square feet and be the first in a “campus” of data centers.

Amid an ongoing conversation about such projects in the Great Lakes region, Grayslake officials are moving forward with a data center campus that, if fully built, would be more than 10 million square feet.

A new report on the electric vehicle charging experience suggests 1 in 3 first attempts at charging still fail — even as operators eye more inventive approaches to raise its availability and convenience.

Officials have a long-term goal of fully electrifying city vehicles. Currently, 16 are fully electric, including a police patrol vehicle unveiled last week. Leaders adopted an EV preference in 2021.

In the face of an increasing number and severity of e-bike accidents this summer, the Virginia Beach City Council wants a task force to devise enforcement methods to keep riders and pedestrians safe.

A county in northern Colorado has placed a moratorium on projects involving data centers, battery storage, wind or solar energy until it can update its regulations.

Residents concerned by their potential for high water and electricity use are organizing, as the Pavilion Township Planning Commission prepares to consider changing zoning ordinances to allow the facilities, in November.