Searching for a place where people work together and things actually get done? Look no further than Jasper, IN, where a gorgeous downtown renovation serves as an example of a place that’s “built by many hands.”
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Millennials are getting older, having children…and fleeing to the only places where they can afford housing: the exurbs.
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Your city just announced a big infrastructure project, one with significant state and federal funding. You and your neighbors are likely wondering: why this project?
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Your city or town probably needs more housing, but where should it go? This exercise could help you find out.
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A mother tragically lost her life after being struck by a car—yet local media is fixated on the fact that she was riding an e-bike. What about the dangerous conditions of the street she was killed on?
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These statistics help tell the story of the past and present of North America’s housing crisis, why we’re facing these challenges, and how we can correct course to address them.
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A financial bubble is, by definition, unsustainable. So, why have we recreated the 2000s housing bubble?
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And why a lot of people will remain unimpressed by it.
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Here’s how high-end shoes can help us understand why the housing market is in the state it’s currently in.
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Drivers on this stroad in Huntsville, AL, are set up to fail. And now, because of that, a person has lost his life.
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The Christmas Cookie Inflation Index has risen 12.0% in the last year. This is compared to the official inflation rate of 3.2%.
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Alexandria, VA, one of the U.S.’s earliest settled cities, has just eliminated single-family zoning.
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ODOT wants to widen a highway in Toledo, OH. But continuing to make the highway bigger and bigger to solve traffic problems is about as effective as the story of the little old lady who swallowed a spider to eat a fly.
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Black Friday is the day that reveals one of the worst flaws in the American landscape: We have way too much parking.
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When Chattanooga, TN, resident Jon Jon Wesolowski noticed a broken guardrail on an overpass, he thought, “the city should’ve put something up for pedestrians.” But then he realized: he could do something about it, himself.
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Everywhere across North America, people are forced to calculate the risk of injury (or worse) just to get across the street. We often call it “jaywalking.” What we should really call it is “an everyday reality” for many.
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Wanting to encourage people toward using bikes for transportation is all fine and good, but not when it makes it harder for developers to build much-needed housing.
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Cities in Massachusetts are among the most walkable in the U.S., so why is progress for safer streets there so maddeningly slow?
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Los Angeles is often held up as the case study for car-centric development run amok, but in recent years, the city has been pursuing a completely different path: public transit champion.
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Here are six tried and tested, “no-brainer” zoning reforms any city or town in North America should consider adopting.
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