• Increasing access to opportunity

    How transit and land-use work together to break down the walls around our lives and expand human freedom.
    Jarrett Walker’s book, Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking About Public Transit Can Enrich our Communities and Our Lives , changed how many people understand public transport. This month, Walker’s new edition of the book is substantially rewritten and addresses current trends that have taken hold...Read more

  • Syracuse I-81 freeway transformation clears legal hurdle

    The demolition and replacement of Syracuse’s I-81 viaduct with a “community grid” cleared a key legal hurdle , as a New York State court unanimously overturned a lower court ruling blocking the project. The February 9 decision apparently opens the door for one of the nation’s most important...Read more

  • Redevelopment plan advances for Tulsa massacre area

    A century after devastating destruction of Greenwood, the city supports a community-driven plan to redevelop publicly owned sites in and near the neighborhood.
    A century after one of the worst race massacres in US history, the City of Tulsa is advancing plans to redevelop publicly owned land in and around the Greenwood neighborhood, north of downtown. One of the wealthiest Black communities in the US in 1921, Greenwood was demolished by a white mob,...Read more

  • The next generation of urban mechanics

    Why mayors are increasingly acting like city planners
    Over the past five years, I’ve had the privilege of interviewing 20 mayors from all around the world, as part of an open-ended inquiry into how municipal leaders have managed the concurrent crises of an all-consuming pandemic, the accelerating impacts of climate change, and an agonizing lack of...Read more