• A chance for transformation

    A redesign for the obsolete 1956 Buffalo Skyway addresses multiple community goals: enhancing mobility, promoting economic development, creating jobs, and reimagining the possibilities of Buffalo’s waterfront.
    Note: This article was written for The Buffalo News in response to a redesign competition for the Buffalo Skyway, an elevated freeway through the city's waterfront. The Skyway was on CNU's 2014 Freeways Without Futures list and also a topic of discussion at CNU 22 in Buffalo that year, and now a...Read more

  • A city highway alternative for Brooklyn

    When transportation engineers make problematic city highway proposals, CNU members sometimes offer alternative design solutions that broaden the conversation—and that's the case with the BQE in Brooklyn.
    It was not Jane Jacobs who first successfully fought the powerful Robert Moses on a highway proposal that would have torn a neighborhood apart. It was the citizens of Brooklyn Heights, across from Lower Manhattan. A citizen-led campaign scuttled Moses’s 1950s plan to build the Brooklyn-Queens...Read more

  • Connecting to reclaim communities

    CNU's 2018 Transportation Summit united local groups that battle to remove disruptive urban highway segments
    “Caused folks around here a lot of heartburn.” With this phrase, Amy Stelly described the ongoing anguish that the Claiborne Expressway has caused for the members of the predominantly African-American community of New Orleans’ Tremé neighborhood. Ten years ago, Stelly helped found the Claiborne...Read more

  • Judging a book by its cover

    A campus designed as an isolated, car-dependent place has become virtually car-free.
    “When I was invited to become a Professor at the ETH Zurich in 1976 I accepted spontaneously because I loved Zurich and Karl Moser’s ETH building. When at my first visit I was instead taken to the new suburban ETH-Höngkerberg (sic) compound. I was so appalled by the teaching premises that I...Read more