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Covering the movement to end car dependency and improve biking, walking and transit in America.

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Streetsblog USA

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.

Angie Schmitt

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Around the Block

A Recipe for Cutting Traffic: Build More Apartments, Fewer Single-Family Homes

Yonah Freemark is the research director of the Land Use Lab at Urban Institute.

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Yonah Freemark

The Garnett MARTA station in downtown Atlanta, surrounded by parking

Garnett MARTA station in downtown Atlanta

Atlanta

A Fixation on Parking Threatens Transit Progress in Atlanta

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Portland Will Switch From Counting Vehicle Trips to Counting People Trips

Development

Which Cities Are Adding Walkable Housing the Fastest?

Bus Rapid Transit

New Evidence That Bus Rapid Transit Done Right Spurs Development

Real Estate Giant: Suburban Office Parks Increasingly Obsolete

Tanya became Streetsblog&#8217;s Capitol Hill editor in September 2010 after covering Congress for Pacifica Radios Washington bureau and for public radio stations around the country. She lives car-free in a transit-oriented and bike-friendly neighborhood of Washington, DC.

Tanya Snyder

Livable Streets or Tall Buildings? Cities Can Have Both

California

Talking Headways Podcast: Good Riddance, “Level of Service”

Payton Chung is Editor at Large of Streetsblog USA. He first addressed a city council about smart growth in 1996, accidentally authored Chicago&#8217;s inclusionary housing law, and sees the promises and perils of planning every day as a resident of &#8220;beautiful as well as sanitary&#8221; Washington, D.C.

Payton Chung

Parking Craters Aren’t Just Ugly, They’re a Cancer on Your City’s Downtown

Cars

Measuring the Shift Away From Car Ownership, City By City