This Halloween, we invite you to take an observational walking tour of sorts, using the holiday as an opportunity to consider walkability and street design in your town.
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Once you get everyone pedaling, they become a team, unified by the excitement of riding together. Once everyone’s on a bike, all you see are smiles.
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"Show me an area where police need to continually set up to catch speeding drivers, and I'll show you a street design that encourages speeding and is unsafe for pedestrians."
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The challenge of improving the American public school system is enormous and complex. It's a conversation we need to keep having.
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Like so much of our modern world, we seem to have boiled education down to a series of discrete inputs and outputs. This is convenient for making measurements, but I’m not convinced we have obtained any more wisdom about collectively raising productive, intelligent children in the last two centuries of public schools in the US than our distant ancestors.
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Here are 4 ways to make your neighborhood more kid-friendly.
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What if we shifted all transportation funding into the classroom? What if we ended the mandate for schools to provide transportation?
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7 steps to taking the leap and getting the most out of urban public schools.
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5 things I learned while teaching my kids to use public transit.
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Safe Routes to School is a very popular federal program designed to make is easier for students to walk and bike to school. What if we instead chose to build Schools on Safe Routes?
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As a society, we are zealous when it comes to the safety of children. And rightfully so. Still, for some reason we find it perfectly acceptable to routinely include them in the most dangerous activity of American life: riding in a car.
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When you're faced with the choice of living in an urban neighborhood with "poor" schools, or a suburban neighborhood with "good" schools, you find a work around. That's what these entrepreneurial spirits did in San Francisco.
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A diverse array of housing types in each neighborhood makes Tulsa, OK a surprisingly great town for millennials with children.
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Tulsa, OK is one of the most unlikely suspects to attract urban, entrepreneurial millennials. Yet here we are.
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As a general rule, engineers show a conscious indifference to pedestrians and cyclists, misunderstanding their needs where they are not disregarded completely. This is the very definition of gross negligence.
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Think you have to choose between moving away to an exciting but distant place, or staying put in your mundane hometown? There's a third option.
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We need to build cities where mixed-income neighborhoods are the norm, not the exception.
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While our modern stroad environments discourage children from walking to school, George is fighting back, and helping his daughters gain independence in the process.
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While our modern stroad environments discourage children from walking to school, George is fighting back, and helping his daughters gain independence in the process.
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Free Range Kids, gentrification, transportation funding , the Swiss Franc and a Cadbury egg apostasy.
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