Tag: Urban Planning
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What are the world's most livable cities? Depends how you measure it.
The Economist puts Melbourne in number 1 spot, Vancouver in 3. They're not.
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It's time to free ourselves from our "thrall to the metal god"
George Monbiot on how electric vehicles are not the answer.
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Banning fossil fuelled cars isn't enough; we have to rethink our transportation system
The UK and France have banned the sale of gas and diesel powered cars by 2040, but it is too little, too late.
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New British study shows that driving long commutes makes you stupid
When it comes to your health, driving is the new smoking.
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Jargon Watch: "Radical Incrementalism"
Toronto city councillor Joe Cressy tosses out a very interesting soundbite after a debate about Toronto's King Street.
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New study looks at attitudes of drivers toward cyclists, and it ain't pretty
It appears that cars are like guns: Instruments of control and vehicles of intimidation.
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It's June, and Parklets are bustin' out all over
This is the first I have seen in Toronto
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It's time to put an end to traffic terrorism
"Accident, not terror." What's the difference?
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Citizen Jane: Does the new film get it right?
A great introduction to a writer who changed the planning world
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Big chains are sucking the life and the variety out of our cities
Toronto is now looking at limiting chain stores to preserve neighborhood character. They are not the first to try this.
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Will self-driving cars change the way we live as much as the car did?
"Architectural designer in cyberspace" Chenoe Hart thinks they might change everything.
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The Cubic City will house eighty million people in just a fraction of Manhattan
A two-mile wide windowless cube where the biggest crime is "Inurbanity"
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Celebration, Florida may be destroyed in order to save it
The fire department demands trees and on-street parking be removed so that they can have 20' clear speedways
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It's Sneckdown time!
The recent snowfall on the east coast provided a great opportunity for a new Streetfilms epic.
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Cities need more "Gentle Density"
Call me a Gentle Density Creep if you like, but we need more housing and it doesn't have to be in towers.
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Forget about "balance" with cars; we have to prioritize walking, biking and transit
Planner Brent Toderian gets it right.
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It's time for another look at plug-in housing
Can the vertical trailer park cut the price of housing?
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Walkable communities are making a comeback
So says this infographic....
