• Build as if there were no air conditioning

    “Build as if you had only the sun to warm and the breezes to cool. Entice yourself outside with great outdoor rooms to condition yourself to the local environment so you can throw the windows open most days. On the most extreme days, use small but highly efficient cooling equipment,” advises...Read more

  • Walkable urban in three cities

    Here’s a graphic from a terrific article in a terrific issue of D Magazine , the regional publication for Dallas-Fort Worth. The authors of the article, Christopher Leinberger and Tracy Loh of George Washington University, are among the few researchers who are studying walkable development over...Read more

  • Keys to shared streets by John Massengale

    When drivers slow down to 20 mph or below, they are less likely to hit people and much less likely to seriously injure or kill people if they do hit them—that's one insight that Dutch designers and engineers learned when they began to implement shared spaces, according to a New York Times article...Read more

  • Walkable and drivable development

    These two revealing photos show "walkable urban" and "drivable suburban" development near downtown Cincinnati, from a recent report called Catalytic Development: (Re)creating walkable urban places . Amazingly, these photos are taken from a similar distance above the ground. The photo on the left...Read more