What stories do we tell ourselves about the kind of world we want to live in?
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A new tolling system on the Ohio River is effectively paying motorists to waste time and fuel.
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If so many people live in suburbs, it must be because that’s what they prefer, right? Actually the evidence is to the contrary.
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Despite what you may read, urban poverty is still a big problem, but the growing national interest in urban living has the potential to turn that around.
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Those contemplating the widespread availability of self-driving cars are predicting everything from a new urban nirvana to a hellish exurban dystopia. But all of these projections hinge on a single fact about autonomous vehicles that we don’t yet know: how much they will cost to operate.
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This data shows that if you want a successful economy, you have to have a talented population.
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The number of women starting and owning businesses is on the rise.
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Caution: This post contains graphic images of housing displacement. Viewer discretion is advised.
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It’s apparently acceptable for suburbs to actively discourage – and in this case, actually relocate – low-income renters. By pretending this sort of thing only happens in Brooklyn or San Francisco, we leave the low-income households who used to live in these now-demolished Marietta apartments vulnerable to very real displacement.
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Feel-good programs like inclusionary zoning are mostly a token response to a problem of much more substantial dimension.
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We need to build cities where mixed-income neighborhoods are the norm, not the exception.
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High housing prices in American cities are a symptom of our shortage of great urban neighborhoods. The tried-and-true solution to a shortage is to supply by building new neighborhoods—places where people want to live.
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Here are five rules of thumb that have led to a distorted view of our transportation problems and their appropriate solutions.
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A review of MOVE: Putting America's Infrastructure Back in the Lead by Rosabeth Moss Kanter.
Photo credit: "Atlanta 75.85" by Atlantacitizen at the English language Wikipedia. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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Truck freight movement gets a subsidy of between $57 and $128 billion annually in the form of uncompensated social costs, over and above what trucks pay in taxes, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
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Building our cities to cater to the needs of car traffic have produced lower levels of livability. There are good reasons to believe that throwing more money at the existing system of building and operating streets will do little to make city life better.
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