Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

The Week: Is America’s Urban Comeback Overhyped? $1.1 billion Spent on L.A.’s I-405 and It’s Still Congested (L.A. Weekly) Only Relatively Recently Did Women Begin to Have a Say in How Cities Develop (The Guardian) Sprawl Booster Starts New Think Tank Promoting Houston, “Opportunity Urbanism” (Chronicle) Topeka, Kansas, Launching Bike-Share with Social Bikes (Washburn Review) … Continued

By Angie Schmitt

8:56 AM EST on March 6, 2015

The Week: Is America’s Urban Comeback Overhyped?
$1.1 billion Spent on L.A.’s I-405 and It’s Still Congested (L.A. Weekly)
Only Relatively Recently Did Women Begin to Have a Say in How Cities Develop (The Guardian)
Sprawl Booster Starts New Think Tank Promoting Houston, “Opportunity Urbanism” (Chronicle)
Topeka, Kansas, Launching Bike-Share with Social Bikes (Washburn Review)
Philly Magazine: Schoolyards Are the Next Frontier in Public Spaces
Chicago Studying $350 Million “Superloop” Streetcar (Gazette)
What the Amtrak Bill Means for the Northeast Corridor (Roll Call)

Angie Schmitt

Angie is a Cleveland-based writer with a background in planning and newspaper reporting. She has been writing about cities for Streetsblog for six years.

Today's Headlines

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