RECENT ARTICLES – 2016
Do you love to hate the over-the-top residential architecture of outer-ring suburbs?
Major foundations are investing $20 million into four cities, matched by local funds, to revitalize underutilized assets and improve the public realm at the neighborhood scale.
People tend to get more exercise, leading to a powerful salutory effect on health, in neighborhoods with four characteristics.
Autonomous rapid transit Is the best use of autonomous technology. Combined wtih high-capacity metro transit systems, this will avoid the degradation of autonomous vehicle performance from mixed-traffic flow and attract riders from private cars.
Every time an in-city highway has been replaced by more human-scale infrastructure, the city and region has benefitted, according to transportation experts who led workshops for USDOT.
Saving historic facades and modernizing buildings were key to revitalizing an important downtown square.
The ‘elephant in the living room' of rising and preventable US traffic deaths and injuries is government-funded roads in drive-only places.
Two very different issues—America’s displaced, and the world’s displaced—both scream for the same response. Our leaders today, unlike 80 years ago, don't understand the relationship between city building, housing for all, and political power.
The Portland Streetcar is one of the most successful and cost-effective economic development drivers anywhere in America in the new millennium.
In Lancaster, California, a simple change in street design was a catalyst for economic and social activity.
In a first world country like America, there is no reason to have a second-rate urban rail system.
Today, many hundreds of the city’s horse rings are adorned with small horses and the like, placed by countless, random individuals playing their own small role in something larger than themselves.