What we build is as important as what we build out of Architects at a Mass Timber round table note that we have to build great urban spaces at reasonable densities. By Lloyd Alter in Green Architecture December 5, 2019
E-bike sales hit almost $15 billion last year New studies find that sales are big and getting bigger. It's time to give them a safe place to ride. By Lloyd Alter in Bikes October 23, 2019
Why throw subsidies at electric cars when 48 percent of trips are less than 3 miles? A new study shows that there is some seriously low-hanging fruit here that would deliver more bang for the buck. By Lloyd Alter in Alternative September 23, 2019
Blueprint for Autonomous Urbanism shows how cities can adapt and change to accommodate everyone NACTO lays out a vision for how autonomous vehicles, and technology more broadly, can work in service of safe, sustainable, equitable, vibrant cities. By Lloyd Alter in Urban Design September 11, 2019
The UK is getting its first bat highway! The red glowing street lights allow light-shy bats to cross the road. By Melissa Breyer in Animals September 3, 2019
What's the world's safest city? Much depends on how you define "safe" By Lloyd Alter in Urban Design August 30, 2019
The war on cars is over, if you want it Todd Litman calls the war on cars a bad joke. He gives us a lot of ammunition in the fight to end it. By Lloyd Alter in Cars August 26, 2019
Where are all the fantasy pedestrians? 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." By Lloyd Alter in Urban Design August 15, 2019
Two very different visions of how cars fit in the city of the future In London: get rid of cars. In New York: get rid of people. By Lloyd Alter in Urban Design August 2, 2019
Hamilton, Ontario, gets "urban pumper" right-sized for urban streets The city is getting bike lanes and light rail transit, and their new apparatuses are chosen to better fit the streetscape. By Lloyd Alter in Urban Design August 1, 2019
Saudi Prince building solar powered city with robots, glowing sand and an artificial moon Will NEOM be "an aspirational society that heralds the future of human civilization" or "a totalitarian surveillance state"? By Lloyd Alter in Urban Design July 29, 2019
Will electric skates solve the last-mile problem? You already own the solutions. They are called feet. By Lloyd Alter in Alternative July 16, 2019
Forget bike lanes, we need Protected Mobility Lanes The number of people using alternative mobility devices is exploding, and they will be demanding safe routes. By Lloyd Alter in Alternative June 21, 2019
What makes a bike-friendly town? 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. By Katherine Martinko in Bikes May 27, 2019
Size matters: Studies find that operating and embodied energy increases with building height High density may be a good thing in cities, but tall buildings are not. By Lloyd Alter in Green Architecture March 7, 2019
Obama Presidential Center faces legal challenge from park preservationists 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. By Lloyd Alter in Urban Design February 21, 2019
Sidewalk Labs releases its vision for Toronto's waterfront It is a wonderful wooden and digital world, but will it ever happen? By Lloyd Alter in Urban Design February 20, 2019
The "war on the car" is going to get worse before it gets better From yellow vests in France to convoys in Canada, it's all about carbon and cars. By Lloyd Alter in Cars February 18, 2019