• #EveryPlaceCounts Comes to Philadelphia, PA

    The program helps communities repair the urban fabric in neighborhoods bifurcated by infrastructure impediments.
    Today, the USDOT #EveryPlaceCounts Design Challenge begins its third workshop in Philadelphia, PA. Created as part of the Secretary's Ladders of Opportunity program, the #EveryPlaceCounts challenge helps envision new locally-driven solutions for reconnecting neighborhoods split by highways and...Read more

  • Workshop Recap: #EveryPlaceCounts Nashville Design Challenge, Day 2

    This week, USDOT and CNU continues the #EveryPlaceCounts Design Challenge in Nashville, TN as part of the Secretary's Ladders of Opportunity initiative. Led by national transportation and urban design experts, dozens of local officials, residents, and business owners gathered to build consensus and...Read more

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

    "In Nashville, design experts and community residents are working together on highway solutions."
    This week, USDOT and CNU continues the #EveryPlaceCounts Design Challenge in Nashville, TN as part of the Secretary's Ladders of Opportunity initiative. Led by national transportation and urban design experts, dozens of local officials, residents, and business owners gathered to build consensus and...Read more

  • In dark ages, hope lies in the city

    On the centenary of Jane Jacobs’s birth, architects and planners lauded her book The Death and Life of Great American Cities . Both loved and reviled upon its release, it has come to be seen as one of the essential books about the city, the importance of lively, diverse neighbourhoods and housing...Read more