• Workshop Recap: #EveryPlaceCounts Spokane Design Challenge, Day 1

    "Highways: great for connecting cities...when they go through them it is damaging."
    This week, USDOT and CNU kicked off the Ladders of Opportunity #EveryPlaceCounts Design Challenge in Spokane, WA. Led by national transportation and urban design experts, dozens of local officials, residents, and business owners gathered to build consensus and generate strategies for reconnecting...Read more

  • CNU and USDOT Announce Every Place Counts Design Challenge Winners

    This federally-funded initiative will reconnect neighborhoods bisected by urban highways and aging transportation infrastructure.
    In cities across America, aging urban highways impose serious consequences on health, mobility, and opportunity in communities. For decades, residents of neighborhoods bisected by highways have suffered from higher levels of air and water pollution, decreased economic opportunity, limited mobility...Read more

  • New York State emerges as freeway teardown leader

    All of a sudden, New York State is the nation’s leader in urban freeway removal, as reported by Streetsblog . Andrew Cuomo is on a bit of a roll when it comes to urban planning and city-based economic development. Cuomo and his administration have announced or budgeted for multiple projects over...Read more