accessibility

A public transit system is detested if it’s difficult to use. This is equally true for those walking or biking to mass transit. There's a need to create better systems for people accessing a transit system on on foot or bike.[read more]

downtown Seoul

With a population density twice that of New York City, Seoul, is making good urban development better by fully embracing the three pillars of urban development.[read more]

accessibility map

There are a variety of ways to define accessibility, but the number of destinations reachable within a given travel time is the most comprehensible and transparent as well as the most directly comparable across cities.[read more]

Imagine yourself, for a moment, in a wheelchair, blind, elderly, or as a younger you - a child. While many of you reading this post have never struggled with accessibility, there are many who do. Universal design and universal accessibility refer to ideas and design meant to produce or provide buildings, products, and environments that...[read more]

I recently drove past this example of conforming to road design manuals. Who needs common sense and engineering judgment when these manuals have all the answers?![read more]

Cities are rightly celebrated for being diverse areas where people of different abilities and cultures can co-exist. However, creating accessible cities through spaces and experiences for residents and visitors with wildly different abilities can be difficult.[read more]

Big cities have lots of congestion. Big cities have lots of accessibility. Does this mean that accessibility causes congestion? Or vice-versa?[read more]

How do we identify our selves with the spaces we use and how do we navigate with the many obstacles the urban environment contains?Living in the city means to constantly negotiate spaces as well as navigate space. This becomes more difficult under the density aspect as well as the mobility aspects. Also the cycles of change are very...[read more]

  The American Institute of Architects has announced its top ten green projects for 2010.  Sponsored by AIA’s Committee on the Environment, the award winners are each worthy of citation for excellence in internal design, in most cases reducing their environmental impacts significantly below those of similarly located but...[read more]

Accessibility measures the ease of reaching destinations. The higher the travel cost the lower the accessibility. It also measures the value of destinations, the more activities at the destination, the more valuable it is. Accessibility does two things, first it increases total wealth. Agglomeration economies caused by new...[read more]

Over at the Planetizen Interchange blog, a fascinating debate has been brewing over the fundamental purpose of transportation. Todd Litman, Sam Staley, Michael Lewyn and a handful of commenters are involved. When debating transportation, we often jump right to the question of automobile vs. transit, but the more interesting dividing...[read more]