• As traffic deaths rise, blame engineering dogma

    US traffic deaths are rising again—fatalities jumped 8.1 percent in the first half of 2015
    US traffic deaths are rising again—fatalities jumped 8.1 percent in the first half of 2015, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reports . The NHTSA cites “drunken, drugged, distracted and drowsy driving; speeding; and failure to use safety features such as seat belts and child...Read more

  • As evidence mounts, drumbeat for walkable streets grows

    The evidence keeps piling up to support reform in street design and traffic engineering. Recent research adds to volumes of studies that say walkable streets will make us safer, healthier, and improve the economy and communities. As BCT reported last month, research by Chester Harvey at the...Read more

  • Intergenerational mobility vs. sprawl: Is there a connection?

    To look more closely at the connection between mobility and sprawl, we compared the mobility rates to neighborhood Walk Scores. Our results lend support to Paul Krugman’s hypothesis.Read more

  • HOPE VI and the New Promise of Public Housing

    From Despair to Hope is the story of the transformation of public housing, a story that deeply involves New Urbanism.
    The HOPE VI public housing redevelopment program has cost the federal government nearly $6 billion in the last 15 years. It has been responsible for 111,000 new and renovated housing units — nearly 60,000 of them affordable to public housing tenants — on 240 sites in cities throughout the US...Read more