• Building community through transportation

    To meet the challenges of the 21st Century, traffic engineers and transportation planners need to think of streets as places and the foundation for community.
    Up to the middle of the last century, we built thoroughfares that formed the bones of mixed-use, complete communities. After that, for six or seven decades, we built thoroughfares to primarily move automobiles. The former method creates places of long-term value that have come back into popularity...Read more

  • The powerful virtuous cycles of street trees

    There are several powerful virtuous cycles of street trees that benefit so many parts of the built environment and the people who inhabit it in ways we may not have thought about until now. This post daylights the multitude of benefits—some of which are life-changing. And from 2020 onward, as we...Read more

  • Housing in Workshop Neighborhoods

    As more residents work from home—even after Covid-19—neighborhoods will include more variety in housing types and the way they are used. Part 2 in a two-part series.
    “Workshop Neighborhoods” are communities where a high proportion of residents work out of their own homes. They tend to be found in walkable places with a high quality of life. They will be neighborhoods of choice as more workers continue to work at home. In the first article of this 2-part series...Read more

  • Creating livable Workshop Neighborhoods

    As more residents work from home—even after Covid-19—they can choose where they live. Many will pick walkable neighborhoods where many people work out of their own homes.
    If you could live anywhere, where would you live? A sizeable number of Americans are now able to ask themselves a form of that question. Even after the pandemic, according to a recent survey by the Harvard Business School, one in six workers will be working from home or a co-working space at least...Read more