Recent Streetsblog USA posts about planning

Talking Headways Podcast: The Annual Prediction Show with Yonah Freemark

By Jeff Wood | Mar 3, 2022 | No Comments

Yonah Freemark, a senior research associate at the Urban Institute, chats about the effects of the pandemic on office work and makes predictions about next year’s transportation policies and projects.

Poppies on a downtown square in Fayetteville. Photo: Brandonrush, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

No Minimum Parking Requirements? No Problem for Fayetteville, Ark.

By Catie Gould, Sightline Institute | Feb 25, 2022 | No Comments

In 2015, the city council of Fayetteville, Arkansas, adopted a radical but simple idea: do away with minimum parking mandates and let businesses decide how much parking they need. How did that work out?

Talking Headways Podcast: Reimagining Sustainable Cities

By Jeff Wood | Jan 27, 2022 | No Comments

We talk to Tina Rosan and Stephen Wheeler about how we can design our cities and our government to be fairer.

Photo: Army Corps of Engineers via Creative Commons

Talking Headways Podcast: Town Planning in Practice and a Celebration

By Jeff Wood | Sep 3, 2020 | No Comments

A classic book from 1909 was one of the first to discuss town planning and urban design at the beginning of the 20th century.

Mayors Want '15-Minute Cities' Post-COVID-19

By Kea Wilson | Jul 31, 2020 | No Comments

It's not enough to give people more space on the sidewalks for social distancing, advocates argue. We also need to give residents places to walk *to* — and specifically, places that help them meet their essential needs.

Big Data Could Fix Transport. Is That a Good Thing?

By Kea Wilson | Mar 13, 2020 | No Comments

Most of us are already sharing our location with private corporations almost every day. Could we use that data for good — or do we need to fight Big Brother?