Urban Planning
Basics
Can This App Tell You If You Live in a ’15 Minute Neighborhood’?
A new tool can help you advocate for your cities to cultivate the walkable amenities that are missing, as well as create safe routes to reach them.
October 21, 2020
Worst Practices: How Urban Planning Fails Vision Zero
The effectiveness of our entire suite of defenses hinges on the policies and practices adopted by planners. Far too often, these development decisions are made with a blissful disregard of their ultimate safety consequences.
October 14, 2020
No, We Don’t Need Drive-Thrus — Even During COVID-19
Drive-thrus are terrible for pedestrians, congestion, and more – and we've found better alternatives during the pandemic.
September 23, 2020
Top Mayors Pledge to Build 15-Minute Cities For COVID-19 Recovery
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.
July 31, 2020
Opinion: Urbanism is Complicit in Infra-Structural Racism — And Reparations Have a Place in the Built Environment
Municipal placemaking has long been an active effort to displace and erase Black people — and it is time to begin a process for atonement, says Destiny Thomas in an exclusive op-ed for Streetsblog.
July 27, 2020
Let’s Not Overthink This: Opening Streets is Easy, Says Urban Planner Mike Lydon
An urban planner looks at open space and reviews the good, the bad and the ugly among our cities (looking at you, Mayor de Blasio!).
April 16, 2020
Op-Ed: The Problem Is Crowding, Not ‘Density’
April 6, 2020
Portland Makes Way For Bike Parking
Lawmakers in the Rose City have mandated that big developers provide space for residents to store their bicycles.
December 6, 2019
Best Practices: Five Vision Zero Tips for Suburbs
The suburbs have a harder job than their urban counterparts to make streets safer, but one county outside Washington D.C. is showing that it is possible to cater to cyclists and pedestrians in a place built around the car.
December 3, 2019
Five Lessons From Seattle’s Crusade Against Driving
Seattle is proving that cities can reduce the number of cars on the road and shift its population to rely on mass transit. Here are a few of those lessons.
November 25, 2019
