Last week, the smartphone game, Pokemon Go, dropped like a ton of bricks onto starry-eyed, nostalgic 20-something’s phones. Its unique format could catalyze an important conversation about walkability in our towns.
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While Jane Jacobs was fighting and winning some battles against Urban Renewal in our cities, many, many more were victims to this hubristic program. My city, Mankato MN, was one of the hardest hit.
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If we don’t stand for it in the virtual world, why do we in the real world?
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Last week Trump called Brussels a “hellhole” much to the ire of Brusselaars. In defense they responded with an onslaught of tweets pointing out how very un-hellholish it it.
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Is there a disruption on the horizon that could potentially put us out of business?
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Should we build ours cities around something that helps them grow, or something that does not?
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A counterpoint to Chuck's recent piece about "Beautiful Ditches," today Matthias advocates for the merit of building beautiful places, even discounting costs and ROI.
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Demand an approach to speeding that reflects your values.
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Do we size our city for the equipment we want or size our equipment for the city we want?
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The kind of thinking America needs right now.
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The stroad: A street/road hybrid. The futon of transportation investments.
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Our wide streets allow us to quickly respond to the collisions caused by our wide streets.
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We should spend our time obsessing why there are no people here rather than what they might to wrong if they showed up.
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Decorative lights without place is just bling without a soul.
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A successful federally funded project to build handicap accessible street crossings.
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This is what success looks like when highway standards are applied to city streets.
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The only thing worse than having congestion is not having congestion.
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The relationship between speed and safety in our transportation system.
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If you need a sign to tell people to slow down, you designed the street wrong.
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