• Kentucky wins in a walk

    Basketball fans across America have filled out their brackets using all kinds of analysis, but probably nobody else is using Walk Score to determine NCAA predictions. Here’s how the teams would fare.
    UPDATE: The Walk Score picks have not done so well after the first full weekend. Only six Sweet Sixteen Walk Score picks survived: Florida, Duke, Houston, Purdue, Kentucky, and Tennessee. St. John's, which we projected as a finalist, lost in a first-round upset. We only have a chance for two in the...Read more

  • How one building can make a difference

    There's been much discussion of creating what the late Ray Oldenburg called “third places,” why they are vanishing , and how they are linchpins of neighborhoods and social interaction. Neighborhood Lab, based in Copenhagen, created a graphic describing how a single building “can spark positive...Read more

  • A street ballet to aspire to, from the Dutch

    The Netherlands is one of the happiest places on Earth . This video by Active Towns founder John Simmerman gives a reason why. On the last day of a visit, Simmerman recorded a typical morning commute in Delft, a historic city of just over 100,000 people. For US residents, imagining going to work in...Read more

  • Ten features of walkable communities

    The following features of walkable communities were presented this week by Wade Walker, a transportation engineer with Kittelson & Associates. This is a great list, although not definitive; other lists of 10 could be made. Here's Walker’s list, with my comments. Small block size. The average...Read more