Populace

bike advocacy in Cincinnati

This year, wheels are spinning as cycling enthusiasts take to the streets of Cincinnati to take advantage of community events and promote cross-collaboration between the city’s many urban cycling groups.[read more]

san francisco cab

A garbled mess of regulations doesn’t help aspiring drivers, who find themselves stifled within an industry known for bottom-up entrepreneurship. Nor does it help consumers, hit with higher prices and outdated services.[read more]

New York, city of aspiration

In any development scheme, you pick a star and try to replicate it in your own backyard. “The Next Silicon Valley!” Yet all the schemes, placemaking, and tolerance overlook what makes global cities such as New York so great.[read more]

LA's lost bike highway?

In 1897, Horace Dobbins bankrolled the Cycleway, an elevated wooden boardwalk, connecting Pasadena with downtown Los Angeles, and upon which cyclists would pay $0.10 one-way, or $0.15 for a roundtrip journey.[read more]

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India has a young population and for them biking can be an ideal transport mode for the short trips which they used to take by bus, walking or auto rickshaw.[read more]

creativity in Phoenix

Andy Brown moved back to Phoenix to cut his cost of living so that he can concentrate on making art rather than figuring out how to sell it – and found that the selling of it is starting to take care of itself, through word of mouth.[read more]

Portland

For Portland, regional planning and urban amenities comprise the economic development strategy. Build it and they (talent) will come. That’s quite different from the usual approach, which is job creation and the attraction of employment.[read more]

suburbia

Times are changing, and there’s evidence that design firms and planners are changing with them. Here are great examples of a refreshing mentality: plans for suburban design that account for sustainability from the very beginning.[read more]

new urbanism in Salt Lake City

Christie Oostema, Planning Director at Envision Utah said in a recent podcast that she hopes to see Salt Lake City become an incubator for new urbanism projects.[read more]

citizen participation

Too often those who utilize public transport on a daily basis are not brought into the decision-making process or consulted on its operation. This lack of participation may damage public use and endorsement of mass transport.[read more]

Melbourne's Public Transit

Melbourne is a city that is experiencing the greatest increase in population in Australia, as well as some of the highest levels of traffic congestion.[read more]

rebuilding conflict cities

What if I create a channel for anyone in the world to invest in real estate in Afghanistan, Somalia, Libya, Iraq or South Sudan? Most investors would not be deterred by possibly losing 100 USD when the potential return could be 1000%.[read more]