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Government subsidies: planes, trains and automobiles
From the Regional Plan Association, more evidence all is not what it seems: our governments subsidize all forms of transportation, including cars – (there go our bragging rights):A common theme of U.S. political dialogue is that while highways...
Health happens in neighborhoods, not doctors’ offices.
Some excerpted comments made by Dr Richard Jackson on the ill effects of suburbs in the article Communities Learn the Good Life Can Be a Killer.On the environment and health:[In a healthy environment] “people who are young, elderly, sick or poor can...
Is the American house a desegregated, poorly engineered commodity?
MOMA has a new show called Foreclosed which has four architects tackle the problem of that great disaster environment the American suburb. This show is so much better than MOMA’s 2008 Housing for New Orleans show in which a half dozen architects...
Over 33 Public Transit Projects Slated for 2012
Here is a map showing the over 30 new municipal transit projects happening this year in the US and Canada. These projects will make our cities more sustainable. In the short term they will have an immediate and profound effect in...
Transportation Choices Can Keep Money Local
According to this infographic from Denver bikes, four of five dollars you spend on your car leave your local economy. To keep 130k transportation dollars in your local economy your city would need to reduce car ownership by 15k cars. ...
Mapping the Measure of America: The US' Largest Cities
Here is a sophisticated interactive map with lots of background data on quality of life issues in America. From what I can discern, the data indicators center on health, education and income. I have pulled out some of the data for the...
How Biking Causes Healthy Eating
Amsterdam’s all about bicycles. We see it from a tourist perspective and think it’s picturesque and maybe a little quirky. We’re the new world, surely we know how to get around better than those old Europeans. Our cars give us...
Remembering Supply: The Story of Gotham and Pleasantville
There is evidence that demand for city living is increasing dramatically in America. But some experts are claiming that this new evidence of demand is false because more Americans are moving to the suburbs than to cities. But what these...
