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Study: Car-sharing squeezes carbon emissions
Car-sharers could reach, under the most optimistic scenario, 20.3 million people, according to a...
May 17 2012 11:41am Robert Steuteville
What urbanists learned from Jacobs
Thanks to Jane Jacobs, “observational urbanism” has steadily gathered momentum for five...
May 4 2012 8:09am Robert Steuteville
A Golden opportunity
Market trends in California support compact, mixed-use neighborhoods — and such neighborhoods would...
7 May 1 2012 10:22am Robert Steuteville
Eye-opening stats on freeway removal
Patrick Kennedy enumerates the economic and social benefits from Korean highway removal.
2 Apr 24 2012 2:54pm Robert Steuteville
Earth Day: Don't forget about cities and towns
The compact, mixed-use neighborhood, town, or city is one of the most effective technologies for...
1 Apr 22 2012 10:24am Robert Steuteville
Memo to Wendell Cox: Density and vision are not anti-market
Walkable, dense, Alexandria, Virginia, laid out by George Washington, represents much of what Cox...
3 Apr 18 2012 8:33am Robert Steuteville
Groundhog Day: Wendell Cox calls for six more decades of sprawl
Every so often, the pro-highway consultant pops out to declare all land-use and development...
1 Apr 11 2012 1:04pm Robert Steuteville
Gates, sprawl, and 'walking while black'
The Trayvon Martin tragedy is partly about what happens to a gated development when residents find...
28 Mar 22 2012 12:00pm Robert Steuteville
Senate transportation bill: More bland than bold
MAP-21 never mentions livability, but it supports "complete streets" and holds the line against...
Mar 20 2012 9:40am Robert Steuteville
Urban renewal: 21st Century style
New Google image shows the devastation wrought by shortsighted hospital plans near downtown New...
Mar 12 2012 12:04pm Robert Steuteville
The cost of urban freeways
Steve Mouzon of Original Green posted an illuminating blog on the destruction of real estate values...
7 Feb 28 2012 11:02am Robert Steuteville
The surprise in the transportation budget
Though hardly anyone has noticed, the proposed 2013 budget of the US Department of Transportation (...
3 Feb 23 2012 4:09pm Robert Steuteville
The bridge to 1950
Remember the bridge to the 21st Century? Well, Congress has now decided that was a mistake, and...
Feb 9 2012 12:00pm Robert Steuteville
How transportation planning kills streets
A new grading system is needed that acknowledges that in some places — that is to say cities and...
6 Feb 8 2012 10:09am Robert Steuteville
Why cities are unaffordable
Cities and towns would do better to focus on more effective regulations and find ways to make them...
6 Jan 24 2012 4:36pm Robert Steuteville
Drunk? Safer to drive than walk, says economist
A disingenuous and wrongheaded story is aired on NPR.
7 Jan 12 2012 9:09am Robert Steuteville
Agenda 21 and other wacky theories
Recent strange arguments: Smart growth is a UN conspiracy, and dying cities should not emulate...
20 Dec 12 2011 1:54pm Robert Steuteville
Cleveland highway transformation stuck in reverse
The Ohio Department of Transportation misses the distinction between mobility of people and the...
Nov 30 2011 3:16pm Robert Steuteville
How Wall Street can transform the built environment
In order for our economy to recover, financiers need to understand the benefits of mixed-use,...
2 Oct 25 2011 12:41pm Robert Steuteville
An upside-down view of where ecological damage comes from
New Geography, the pre-eminent digital defender of automobile-oriented US policy, argues that...
Oct 11 2011 8:34am Robert Steuteville
Tactical culture: Porchfest
A festival with minimal organization and almost no budget has helped to put our neighborhood on the...
1 Oct 2 2011 10:18am Robert Steuteville
Does smart growth reduce carbon emissions? Bet the house on it.
The National Association of Home Builders would have us believe that development patterns have...
20 May 31 2011 7:36am Robert Steuteville
Who is Jane Jacobs? (And why is she still giving planners and architects heartburn?)
On the 50th Anniversary of The Death and Life of Great American Cities, professionals who shape our...
3 May 9 2011 8:30am Robert Steuteville
Housing: An irresistible force meets an immovable object
Rental and transit-oriented development will dominate market demand for the next decade, but will...
9 Apr 29 2011 8:06am Robert Steuteville
The coming housing calamity
The great senior sell-off, rising household sizes, dropping homeownership, tighter lending...
9 Apr 28 2011 7:56am Robert Steuteville
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