Tag: Urban Planning

They say it's the new megatrend: customers without cars.

A look back at the tweets that changed the way I think about sustainable design.

Architects at a Mass Timber round table note that we have to build great urban spaces at reasonable densities.

New studies find that sales are big and getting bigger. It's time to give them a safe place to ride.

A new study shows that there is some seriously low-hanging fruit here that would deliver more bang for the buck.

NACTO lays out a vision for how autonomous vehicles, and technology more broadly, can work in service of safe, sustainable, equitable, vibrant cities.

The red glowing street lights allow light-shy bats to cross the road.

Much depends on how you define "safe"

Todd Litman calls the war on cars a bad joke. He gives us a lot of ammunition in the fight to end it.

Daniel Herridges of Strong Towns says, "If your goal is to promote public safety, design for the humans you have, not the ones you wish you had."

In London: get rid of cars. In New York: get rid of people.

The city is getting bike lanes and light rail transit, and their new apparatuses are chosen to better fit the streetscape.

Will NEOM be "an aspirational society that heralds the future of human civilization" or "a totalitarian surveillance state"?

You already own the solutions. They are called feet.

The number of people using alternative mobility devices is exploding, and they will be demanding safe routes.

In which I argue that bike-friendliness should be measured by how well a town caters to its most practical, regular, and vulnerable of users, not tourists.

High density may be a good thing in cities, but tall buildings are not.

The TreeHugger view is that hey, we like trees, and parks are precious, especially when they are designed by the likes of Frederick Law Olmsted.