Urban Planning
Book Excerpt Special: The Incomplete Freeway Revolt
A new book looks the destructive 20th-century urban development style — freeways, downtown office towers, suburban housing developments — that keeps Americans so dependent on their cars. Here's an excerpt.
Talking Headways Podcast: Healthy Architecture, Healthy People
It is very unusual for an architecture project to pay any attention at all outside of the property line. And that has to change.
Revitalizing Cities With Small-Scale Manufacturing
One Rust Belt city is pursuing an innovative strategy to attract economic development and enhance urban livability.
There’s Good Science Behind the Human Craving for Livable Streets
It's time to understand the science of pedestrian-friendly cities. Or, why streets should be designed like gardens.
Music City Meltown: Nashville Needs Transit-Oriented Development
The Tennessee capital needs better transit and zoning changes if it is going to prosper, a new report shows.
How to Build a Better Sustainable Transportation Pilot
Pop-up projects and trial runs can build support for new street safety ideas and new alternatives to driving — or they can turn the public against a project before it even gets off the ground. A new study outlined how to avoid the most common pilot pitfalls.
Talking Headways Podcast: Stuck with Yoni Appelbaum
Yoni Appelbaum on the history of moving in the United States and how the different traditions of land ownership and management in America evolved.
