There’s a commercial airing frequently for a Dodge minivan these days. Maybe you’ve seen it:
An unhappy family sits around their very nice home, all doing their best to ignore each other. The cynical teenage daughter is on the phone, asking her friend, “Did you see what she was wearing? Eww!” The youngest boy approaches [...]
What’s in store for newly-created exurban neighborhoods like these, far from the city’s core?
Perhaps for the first time since the late 1940s, when the country emerged from depression and world war to launch the national project of settling the countryside surrounding its beleaguered cities, our culture appears to be entering a critical examination of [...]
New Partners for Smart Growth was a rousing success. So what’s next in 2008?
The New Partners for Smart Growth Conference — the annual gathering of local officials, community activists, policy wonks, advocates, and regular people who simply care about how their communities grow — is always stimulating, always a great opportunity to exchange business cards [...]
Click the video to watch a recent CBS News piece on the growing use of passenger rail
Retailers of scale like Wal-Mart and Target survive on small margins. The rate of profit may be small, but selling a bazillion units of everything adds up to a tidy sum at the end of the day. In the [...]
Highways like these in San Antonio get built with federal highway funds.
President Bush’s proposed budget for the 2009 fiscal year contained an alarming provision for “fixing” the transportation funding crisis. Unfortunately, the solution is akin to putting a band-aid on a gaping wound while also cutting off an arm.
Without getting too deep into the weeds, [...]
The Alaskan Way Viaduct is a three story barrier, separating Seattle from its historic waterfront.
Continuing the thread started yesterday on urban freeways and the CNU Teardown Survey, we have a guest blogger today. Cary Moon is the co-founder and director of the People’s Waterfront Coalition, which is a grassroots group that formed a few years [...]
San Fran capitalized on damage from the Loma Prieta Earthquake to remove the Embarcadero Freeway. Before and after at Market Street
This is part one of a series. Click here for part two on Seattle’s Alaskan Way Viaduct.
Take a peek at the road atlas or Google Maps for any major American city and there’s [...]
BusinessWeek published a special report on Green Design and Innovation this week, and one of their top stories highlights the core message of Growing Cooler: meeting the demand for the walkable neighborhoods and cities that result in less driving is one of the best solutions for reducing emissions.
Alex Steffen reworked his longer essay that appeared [...]
The powers that be in Kansas City have been exploring the possibility of a light rail line for a few years now, a step in the right direction for a city with one of the highest numbers of interstate miles per capita of major American cities.
With citizens increasingly concerned about the impact of higher gas [...]
