Michel Durand-Wood wrote:
Effecting change in a city is like a stack of stones. And successfully moving the top stones requires a strong base of lower stones.
So if you’re working your tail off and feeling like you’re getting nowhere (or worse, the vortex!), you’re probably working at too high a level. You need t...
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Oscar Perry Abello wrote:
The Oakland People’s Plan promises to be different. In a typical arrangement, the city would hire a consulting firm with planning experience to lead the process, and then that firm might subcontract community groups to facilitate community engagement. Instead, under the Oakland People’s Plan, the 30 groups proposed to lead th...
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Guillaume Rischard wrote:
There are many recent developments in New York I wish we’d copied. Ambitiously blanketing the city with open streets was a great idea, and I understand why many of you want to make them permanent. Cities like Ghent do this on a much smaller scale, but they complete the streets with benches...
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URBAN HUB wrote:
The future city mixes it up
Mixed-use development is the future of the city. Toronto’s ambitious Sidewalk Labs is already making this case. These developments rely on modular building systems that bring together residential and commercial living with public facilities and parks.
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The streets of the future city are sm...
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Thomas Dougherty wrote:
American demographics are changing and so are housing needs. According to a 2017 exposition held by AARP and the National Building Museum, entitled “Making Room: Housing For a Changing America,” 28% of the American population is single people living alone. Yet almost 90% of the nation’s residential units consist of two o...
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Diana Ionescu wrote:
As covered here last week, Norfolk has published a Missing Middle Pattern Book designed to make new housing development more streamlined and affordable. "People often visualize adding more units means that the building will get bigger and bigger, but some of the examples identified in the pattern book demonstrate that you ca...
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Katie McKellar wrote:
The grand vision for the 600-acre project, called The Point, came into sharper focus on Tuesday when the Point of the Mountain State Land Authority board voted unanimously to approve a new “framework,” which gives the most detail so far for the land’s future.
Its visionaries are calling it Utah’s first “15-minut...
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Kea Wilson wrote:
“There’s an association between ‘recreational’ trails and [leisure or exercise] riding, but the Arlington off-roads multi-purpose trails are very much used by commuters, too,” Monford adds. “We didn’t interview every rider, obviously, but the folks at the DOT made it clear that a large number of workers use the off-road trails [to...
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Rachel Quednau wrote:
Bike infrastructure is one of the most high-return investments a city can make. It allows people to get around town at a very affordable price point while helping residents stay healthy at the same time. And the wear-and-tear bikes create on roads is a tiny fraction of the wear-and-tear caused by cars...
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Modern cities are designed for cars. But the city of Barcelona is testing out an urban design trick that can give cities back to pedestrians.
