Online Publications

This is a list of online publications, blog, podcasts, & journals that cover housing, planning, urbanism, and YIMBY topics.
 

General

• BeyondChron - Randy Shaw, San Francisco. 

C is for Crank (Seattle politics, urbanism, land use coverage). by Erica C. Barnett. 

• California Planning and Pevelopment News. @Cal_Plan
   
• CITIES Online
  Published by the Cities Foundation (Amsterdam)
  Free online, no subscription required. 
  @citiesonline on Twitter
   
• City Journal - from Manhattan Institute, conservative think-tank
   
• City Observatory "What Matters to the Success of Cities" "City Observatory is a website and think tank devoted to 'data-driven'analysis of cities and the policies that shape them. " Core topics include  transportation, housing, gentrification, 'place making', economic opportunity, and industry clusters. Run by economist Joe Cortright in Portland. 
   
• Citylab (previously known as The Atlantic Cities) 
   
• Curbed "Obsessing about where you live is an overwhelming concern and endless pastime. Our mission at Curbed is to tell great stories, delivered with all the context you need to know about homes, neighborhoods, and cities—while serving up a constant source of inspiration.Since 2004, Curbed has been an integral part of the online housing industry, and by providing analysis, coverage, and insight, we apply an editorial lens to the onslaught of information. Unlike a glossy shelter magazine, we see homes, architecture, interior design, cities, neighborhoods, and properties for sale as related points on a spectrum."
  • Atlanta Curbed
  • Austin Curbed
  • Boston Curbed
  • Chicago Curbed
  • Detroit Curbed
  • LA Curbed
  • Miami Curbed
  • New Orleans Curbed
  • New York Curbed
  • Philadelphia Curbed
  • San Francisco Curbed
  • Seattle Curbed
  • Washington DC Curbed

• D Magazine - Streetsmart "Leading the way towards Dallas' Urban Future"
   
• Engaging Cities (Curated/aggregator site)"Fostering livable communities by sharing people and place news from around the web."
   
• Greater Greater Washingon 
   
• Land Lines - Lincoln Institute of Land Use
   
• Market Urbanism "Liberalizing Cities | From the Bottom Up"
   
• New Geography
   
• Next City
   
• NY Times Upshot - Emily Badger
   
• Overhead Wire 
   
• Places Journal @PlacesJournal
  Architecture, landscape, urbanism. Design research and journalism in the public interest. Sign up: https://placesjournal.org/newsletter
   
• Planetizen "Planetizen: The independent resource for people passionate about planning and related fields."
   
• Shelterforce - magazine of the community housing development industry
   
• Sightline Institute   http://www.sightline.org/news/feed/
   
• Spacing "Canadian Urbanism Uncovered"
   
• SPUR - The Urbanist Magazine
   
• Streetsblog Net  
   
• Strong Towns
   
• The American Conservative - New Urbanism
   
• The Guardian - Cities
   
• The Washington Post - Wonkblog
   
• Treehugger  Transportation section  Design section"TreeHugger is the leading media outlet dedicated to driving sustainability mainstream.
   
• Urban Omnibus "The Culture of 'Citymaking'" "Urban Omnibus is an online publication dedicated to defining and enriching the culture of 'citymaking'. We explore projects and perspectives in architecture, art, policy, and activism – tried and tested in New York City – that offer new ways of understanding, representing, and improving urban life and landscape worldwide."
   
• The Urbanist (from Seattle)  
   
• Urbanist Magazine "Urbanist Magazine explores the realm of cities and mobility. Based in Berlin since 2014."

 

Blogs

• Granola Shotgun combines big-city and small-city urbanism
• The Parking Minute - Tony Jordan blogs about parking reform, from Portland.
• West North - Payton Chung blogs about city stuff, mostly DC,
• Urbanrail
• Pedestrian Observations (Alon Levy @alon_levy)
• Polis
• This City Life (Jillian Glover, British Columbia)
• Emergent Urbanism (Mathieu Hélie @mathieuhelie, Québec)
• Alistair Parvin  (@AlastairParvin)  "Alastair Parvin is a designer and civic entrepreneur based in London, UK. He is the co-founder of WikiHouse Foundation and a member of strategic design group 00. He is currently working on better housing systems, democratic cities & technology made by and for everyone."
• Urban Life Signs - http://www.urbanlifesigns.com/ - Brian Skokle, San Francisco.
• Active Transport for Cities (Chris R. Hamilton @ChrisRHamilton) Based in Key West, Florida. Previously Hamilton was the Commuter Services Bureau Chief of Arlington, Virginia's DOT and led a team "whose mission is to make it easy for people to take transit, bike, and walk rather than drive alone."'
• The Transport Politic (Yonah Freemark; based in Cambridge, MA @yfreemark) "Yonah Freemark is an urbanist and journalist who has worked in architecture, planning, and transportation."
• Aaron Renn/Urbanophile (Aaron M. Renn @urbanophile) "Aaron M. Renn is a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and an opinion-leading urban analyst, writer, and speaker on a mission to help America’s cities thrive and find sustainable success in the 21st century."
• Human Transit (Jarrett Walker @humantransit) "Since 1991 I’ve been a consulting transit planner, helping to design transit networks and policies for a huge range of communities.  My goal here is to start conversations about how transit works, and how we can use it to create better cities and towns."
• Community Architect (Klaus Philipsen) "Klaus Philipsen, FAIA is an architect, urban designer and architectural writer specializing in urban architecture, adaptive reuse, preservation and transportation work." "This is an urban design, architecture and cities blog exploring design, art, culture, planning, transportation and cultural landscapes"
• Stop and Move - Fresno, California
• Let's Go LA
• Systemic Failure
• Markasaurus (Mark Hogan @markasaurus) Mark Hogan is an architect (principal at Open Scope Studio, San Francisco). "His primary professional interests lie in infill housing, sustainable urban design and in enhancing digital design workflows."
• Martha Bridgegam (@MBridegam) Martha 'Bridgegam'is a writer and attorney who writes about "housing, homelessness, land and water use, landscape history, cities and camps. Mostly in California."
• City Notes (Daniel Kay Hertz @DanielKayHertz) Daniel Kay Hertz is a senior fellow at City Observatory and is a graduate of the MPP program at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago. Self-described "militant Midwesternist."
• Corner Side Yard (Pete Saunders @petesaunders3) Pete Saunders is an urban planner, "#Rustbelt lover. Detroit born/raised, Hoosier trained and Windy City polished." Corner Side Yard also gives some coverage to Saunders' native Detroit.
• Surly Urbanism (@surlyurbanist )
• Jace Deloney @JaceDeloney  Jace Deloney is the co-founder of AURA, a former chair of the City of Austin's Urban Transportation Commission and a Board Member of the Alliance for Public Transportation.
• Local Mustard (Cory Brown @TCB)
• Austin Contrarian (Chris Bradford @ChrisBBradford)  Chris Bradford is an attorney whose practice focuses on " land-use entitlements, development permits, water regulations and other matters relating to land use and real estate development." Chris says "I have always been interested in development and the economics of land-use regulations. Land-use regulations affect nearly every aspect of our lives, from how much we pay for rent, to how far we must travel to buy a cup of coffee or pair of shoes, to what our streets look like."
• Austin On Your Feet (Dan Keshet @DanKeshet)
• Austin Transit Blog @atxtransitblog
• Keep Austin Wonky (Julio Gonzalez Altamirano) 
• Urbanizing Austin (Tim Thomas @tthomas48, Austin)
• M1EK's Bake-Sale of Bile  (Mike Dahmus @mdahmus, Austin)
• Wonkingbird (Julie Montgomery @juliamontgomery, Austin)
• Yarak.org (Steven Yarak, Austin)
• Austin Teacher Dad (Marshall Escamilla)
• Car Free Austin @carfreeaustin (Carrie Gammell and Seth Goodman) "Carrie Gammell and Seth Goodman are two architectural designers residing in Austin, Texas. Carrie originally hails from Houston, while Seth was born and raised in ATX. Before settling in Austin, Carrie and Seth studied in Houston and Paris and worked in Seattle, Philadelphia, and Bogotá. After living car-free in five other cities, they decided to fully commit to the lifestyle in their new home."
• Austin On A Bike
• Houston Strategies (Tory Gattis @torygattis) "Social Systems Architect and entrepreneur with a genuine love of my hometown. I cover a wide range of topics in this blog - including transportation, transit, economic development, quality-of-life, city identity, and development and land-use regulations - and have published numerous Houston Chronicle op-eds on these topics. I'm a Founding Senior Fellow with the Center for Opportunity Urbanism and co-authored the original study with noted urbanist Joel Kotkin and others, creating a city philosophy around upward social mobility for all citizens as an alternative to the popular smart growth, new urbanism, and creative class movements."
• Transit Oriented Blog (Peter Dovak @pdovak, Arlington)
• City Comforts (David Sucher @David_Sucher)
• My Urbanist (Chuck Wolfe crwolfelaw.com) Charles "Chuck" Wolfe is a published author, redevelopment lawyer and affiliate member of the faculty of the University of Washington.
• The Black Urbanist ( Kristen Jeffers @blackurbanist)|
• YIMBY Queensland blog https://yimbyqld.com.au/blog/

 

Podcasts

• Urban Broadcast Collective - https://soundcloud.com/user-669027099.
• Spacing Radio Looks at Canada and Toronto-centric urbanist topics 
• Urban Land Institute - Critical Value. 
• Strong Towns Podcasts
• The Overhead Wire
• The Urbanist and Tall Stories, from Monocle 24
• Third Wave Urbanism -from Kristen Jeffers and Katrina Johnston-Zimmerman
• DNA - Design and Architecture, from Frances Anderton, KCRW Los Angeles.  https://soundcloud.com/kcrw-dna/
• The Observatory (from Design Observer - Jessica Helfand, Michael Beirut, etc) - https://soundcloud.com/the-observatory-1/
• Slate’s Placemakers 
•  Talking Headways podcast tackles all things dear to an urbanist’s heart – transportation, economic development, planning and more. From Jeff Wood.
• 99% Invisible has 250+ episodes uncovering the unnoticed architecture and design that shapes our lives.
• GovLove discusses the people, policies, and the profession of local government. 
• Curious City from Chicago NPR affiliate WBEZ which researches a wide range listener-submitted questions about the city. 
• TED Radio Hour’s Building Better Cities 
• Radiolab’s Cities.
• Gimme Shelter: The California Housing Crisis Podcast - from Liam Dillon and Matt Levin - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/gimme-shelter-the-california-housing-crisis-podcast/id1280087136?mt=2. 
• Infill - from SF Yimby. https://yimbyaction.org/sf/infill/
• Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything - New York After Rent (I of III) New York After Rent (II of III) New York After Rent (final episode in series)
• There Goes the Neighborhood - from WNYC New York. interviewing the victims and victors of gentrification in Brooklyn [1]

 

Scholarly journals

Notes:
   1. this list was mostly developed by selecting high-ranked, topic-relevant journals from the Scimago Journal Rank, "Urban Studies" category - which covers housing, planning, urban studies: https://www.scimagojr.com/journalrank.php?category=3322. Also, by noting more commonly-cited journals. 
   2. We're trying to get RSS feed link(s) for these journals wherever they exist. For most people, tracking the journals' content via a RSS reader is probably the most plausible way to follow them. Some journals have email TOC-alerts (Table of Contents alerts when new issues come out). A few journals have Twitter feeds, these are noted. 

• Cities: The International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning
  RSS: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/cities/rss
  established 1983. Published by Elsevier. https://www.journals.elsevier.com/cities
  ISSN: 0264-2751
  Impact Factor: 3.853
  (SJR): 1.440
   
• City
  ISSN 1360-4813 (Print); ISSN 1470-3629 (Online)
  https://api.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/ccit/latest?format=rss
  https://api.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/ccit?format=rss
   
• Habitat International 
  established 1976, published by Elsevier. 
  https://www.elsevier.com/journals/habitat-international/0197-3975
  Impact Factor: 3.846
  SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 1.524 
  https://twitter.com/ElsGeogPlan
  https://www.journals.elsevier.com/habitat-international/rss
   
• Housing Policy Debate
  established 1990, published by Taylor & Francis
  ISSN    10511482
  https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rhpd20
  RSS: https://www.tandfonline.com/feed/rss/rhpd20
  Twitter: @HousPolDebate
   
• Housing Studies
  established 1986, published by Taylor & Francis. https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/chos20. 
  RSS: https://www.tandfonline.com/feed/rss/chos20
  Twitter: @housingjournal.
   
• Housing, Theory and Society
  ISSN    16512278, 14036096
  https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/shou20/current
  Established 1996
  impact factor of 1.478
  RSS: https://api.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/shou/latest?format=rss
   
• International Journal of Housing Policy
  published by Taylor & Francis
  Editors @DallasRogers101 & @dremmapower
  Twitter: @IJHPEditors
  RSS: https://www.tandfonline.com/feed/rss/reuj20
  Podcast http://ijhp.online/pod
   
• International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
  established 1977
  ISSN 03091317, online 1468-2427
  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14682427
  Impact factor:2.768
  SJR 2.729
  @IJURResearch
  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/feed/14682427/most-recent
   
• Journal of the American Planning Association (JAPA)
  [Formerly known as Journal of the American Institute of Planners (1935 - 1978)]. 
  [1].
  RSS: https://www.tandfonline.com/feed/rss/rjpa20.
   
• Journal of Housing and the Built Environment
  ISSN 15737772, 15664910
  Kluwer Academic Publishers
  https://www.springer.com/journal/10901
   
• Journal of Housing Economics (JHE)
  ISSN: 1051-1377
  https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-housing-economics
  Impact Factor: 1.640
  SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 0.755
  RSS: http://rss.sciencedirect.com/publication/science/10511377.
  Open Access RSS: http://rss.sciencedirect.com/publication/science/10511377_OA/open-access.
   
• Journal of Urban Design
  ISSN  14699664, 13574809
  https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjud20/current
  https://www.tandfonline.com/cjud20
   
• Journal of Urban Economics
  established 1974
  Editors: Nathaniel Baum-Snow, Stuart Rosenthal
  ISSN    10959068, 00941190
  SJR 2.724 
  RSS: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-urban-economics/rss
   
• Journal of Planning Education and Research
   
• Journal of Planning History
   
• Journal of Urban Geography
  established 1980. Published by Taylor & Francis. 
   
• Town Planning Review 
  https://online.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/loi/tpr
   
• Urban Affairs Review
  established in 1965 as Urban Affairs Review.  published by SAGE Publications in association with the Urban Politics Section of the American Political Science Association.
  https://journals.sagepub.com/home/uar
  SJR 2.115
  2.081 Impact Factor 
  Journal Indexing & Metrics »
  RSS: https://journals.sagepub.com/rss/uarb
  Twitter: @UrbanAffairsRev
   
• Urban Geography
  established 1980, published by Taylor & Francis. 
  Print ISSN: 0272-3638 Online ISSN: 1938-2847
  Impact factor: 1.322
  https://urbangeographyjournal.org/about/
  Twitter: https://twitter.com/urbgeog
   
• Urban Studies
  established 1964.  Published by Sage. 
  https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/urban-studies/journal201866
  ISSN: 00420980, 1360063X
  Impact Factor: 2.604
  https://www.urbanstudiesonline.com/journal/
  Blog: https://www.urbanstudiesonline.com/blog/
  RSS: https://journals.sagepub.com/rss/usja
  https://journals.sagepub.com/home/usj#
   

Open Access Scholarly Journals

Radical Housing Journal
radicalhousingjournal.org
established 2018
Twitter: @Radical_Housing

Urban Planning 
ISSN: 2183-7635
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplanning/about