Steve Wright wrote:

As a planner and planning storyteller, I love walkable places; mixed-use, wide sidewalks; bike paths; premium transit; parks; transit-oriented development; compact development; and the like. But for many years, I wasn’t good at practicing what I preached.

Then COVID hit and I could work from home, so I wasn’t in the ca...
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Diana Ionescu wrote:

Gutierrez recommends ways that cities can get ahead of this second looming 'carpocalypse.'

Getting rid of parking minimums now and allowing developers to redevelop existing parking, for instance, is a smart way to prepare for a future where a small number of driverless vehicles circle the city and only stop to pic...
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Diana Ionescu wrote:

The COVID-19 pandemic, writes Stephan Schmidt, emphasized the importance of public, outdoor space as cities around the world opened previously car-centric streets to pedestrians and reimagined street space as more than a way to move cars from place to place. "Alternatively referred to as slow, open, shared or active streets, many o...
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Kea Wilson wrote:

Urban highways are a fixture of city life in the U.S. — but much of the time cities don’t control them. They are the creatures of higher levels of government. The downtowns of many major cities, from Philadelphia to Los Angeles, are bisected by large overpasses that were built using state an...
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Diana Ionescu wrote:

The city of Cleveland and real estate firm Bedrock, owned by Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert, have "announced a partnership with the goal of revamping the Cuyahoga riverfront near Tower City Center" that aims "to connect downtown residents and visitors to the riverfront with an approach focused on sustainability, equity, and accessibility....
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Ryan Swanson wrote:

If any good has come out of the past year and a half of the pandemic, it is the recognition that cities must dedicate more public space for people to walk, exercise and simply breathe in order to promote public health and wellbeing. The pandemic forced us into isolation, showing the general publi...
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Jacob Andra wrote:

Dead malls litter the US, but they are thriving with new identities. As the retail industry evolves, cities across the country are grappling with the tall task of repurposing these large, existing sites in core districts.

Communities must get creative, rezoning to accommodate for office, multifamily, or industrial distribution centers. Every solutio...
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Clarence Eckerson Jr. wrote:

Last month, I journeyed to Montréal, a city I have visited many times in the last three decades, to see how much progress it has made in reining in the car culture, creating more livable communities, encouraging cycling, making roadways safer and, most important, bringing back freedom to inhabitants long oppresse...
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saltlakechamber wrote:

There is no one singular solution to Utah’s Housing Crisis. Rather, the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute has identified five “best practices” for meeting the housing affordability challenge in Utah. This article will describe how zoning changes are a necessary part of all other best practices, as they control what types of housing...
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Sandy Smith wrote:

Oddly enough, the carless apartment community now rising on 17 acres next to a light-rail station there is called Culdesac. Set to open in 2022, the $170 million Culdesac Tempe is being billed by its developer, also called Culdesac, as “the first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in the U.S.” Residents wh...
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