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4 Principles for Re-Designing the Suburbs for the Future

December 21, 2011 by Rashiq Fataar
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Suburbs will continue to exist. People will still want to live in them, and therefore we must re-design them.  In America, our thinking has become rather binary when it comes to urban development; you either live in a Manhattan high-rise or a suburban house in Phoenix. The suburbs will have to densify in some way in order to be... [read more]

Curbside Haiku: NYC's DOT Gets Creative With Public Education

December 16, 2011 by TheCityFix - produced by EMBARQ
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New York City’s Department of Transportation launched its “Curbside Haiku” safety education and public art campaign last month. The campaign features twelve bright and eye-catching designs that mimic the style of traditional street safety signs. The twist, however, is that each sign comes with an accompanying haiku, a short form of... [read more]

Best US Cities for Living Car-Free? None of the Above, Really

November 21, 2011 by Kaid Benfield
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  Earlier this week, a story began making the rounds about the ten best metro areas in which to live without a car.  The winners include some of the usual suspects:  San Francisco, Portland, New York City, Honolulu, Seattle, San Jose (?), Denver, Salt Lake City, Los Angeles, and Boston. The original article was... [read more]

Mo-bility for Tomorrow: E-Payment Facilitates Transit

October 31, 2011 by Yuri Artibise
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I love the concept behind this system. It would be great to have an integrated mobility system that allows you to go from bike to bus to car as needed. The idea of recovering costs through generating miles as you cycle is especially intriguing. [read more]

For Efficient Transit, Require That Routes Be Profitable

October 4, 2011 by David Levinson
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It would be much cleaner to give them a single mission: provide these routes and make money/break even. They would make money from customers on profitable routes, and from society at large on welfare routes that society explicitly chooses to subsidize despite their inability to make money. The operating agency should not be making welfare decisions, that is better done through an explicit public policy process. [read more]

Smart Growth Investment Key To Small Cities' Economic Vitality

September 16, 2011 by Kaid Benfield
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  This recent report from the Center for Neighborhood Technology looks very interesting.  Among other things, it seems to confirm exactly what Chuck Marohn (Community Growth Institute, Strong Towns) has been telling us about the economic imperatives facing smaller cities and towns in Heartland America:  to become... [read more]

Updated Guide: Healthy and Livable Communities

August 10, 2011 by The Dirt ASLA
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The prevalence of low-density, automobile-dependent communities has resulted in unsustainable lifestyles that increasingly threaten human health and well-being and cause social inequities, economic insecurity, and environmental degradation. The increased reliance on cars in disconnected communities creates sedentary lifestyles with... [read more]

Atlanta's Ambitious Belt-Line Project Easier Planned Than Executed

July 26, 2011 by Kaid Benfield
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        I once called the Atlanta BeltLine “the country’s best smart growth project.”  I still haven’t seen one that is better in concept.  But now, with a few years of history, how is the implementation coming along?  Is the reality matching the vision? The challenge with writing about the BeltLine... [read more]

Why I Love Transit

July 12, 2011 by Yuri Artibise
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It’s I Love Transit Week in Vancouver!  This week (July 11-17th) The Buzzer Blog and Translink are celebrating what people love about transit in Metro Vancouver. Throughout the week The Buzzer Blog is featuring feature essays, stories, and submitted photos from Vancouver transit riders. In addition,... [read more]

America Fast Forward: Innovating Transportation

March 31, 2011 by TheCityFix - produced by EMBARQ
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Los Angeles is planning a 4-mile extension of the Metro Orange Line, complete with bikeways and pedestrian paths. Photo by Metro Transportation Library and Archive. Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa visited Washington, D.C. yesterday to garner support for a national expansion of his 30/10 transportation initiative, called ... [read more]

Transit-Friendly Neighbors, Removed from Transit-Friendly Neighborhoods?

October 22, 2010 by Next American City
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New rail stations may be gentrifying neighborhoods to an extent that the people most likely to take advantage of transit services are being pushed out, forced to relocate because of higher prices. This is a claim that strikes deep at the heart of one of the most frequently used arguments in favor of new investments in transit systems,... [read more]

Saint Louis: More Progressive than Denver?*

April 14, 2010 by Andrew Faulkner
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* For the time-being anyway. Many times, when dealing with intractable problems it is impossible to resist succumbing to the grass-is-greener approach. In Saint Louis, during conversations with a wide array of advocates and transit professionals, the comparison to Denver is inevitable: "if we had a transit district like Denver", "... [read more]