Walking Away From Oil Dependence, One Day at a Time
Today,
even the CEO of BP used the words "environmental
catastrophe" to characterize what's happening in the Gulf of
Mexico.
May 28, 2010
Bike Infrastructure Where You Live
In honor of National Bike Month, we asked you to send in pictures of bike infrastructure you love. And we got one message loud and clear: you love your bike infrastructure. A lot. We got hundreds of submissions.
May 26, 2010
Why Drag Two Tons of Car With You Wherever You Go?
How much energy does it take to move two tons?
May 24, 2010
New Urbanist Silverback Andres Duany and the Young Locusts
If you've been roaming the urbanist blogosphere
this week, you may have happened upon the comments made by one of the
progenitors of New Urbanism, Andres Duany, in an interview with the Atlantic.
Duany, apparently, has a problem with young people coming into a city
and using it in a way that he disapproves of:
May 21, 2010
The Active Transportation Scene in Sioux Falls
One of the beauties of the Streetsblog Network (now with 411 members) is that it gives us a pavement-level view of what’s happening in communities that are mostly glossed over by both mainstream media and what might be termed the mainstream blogosphere. Places like Sioux Falls, South Dakota. You might not think of Sioux Falls … Continued
May 20, 2010
Seeking the Next Interstate System, This Time Without Asphalt
The construction of the interstate highway
system defined the landscape of late-20th-century America. What will be
the transformative infrastructure of the 21st century?
May 19, 2010
Consequences for Banana-Throwers, and the Case for Human Decency
Today from Texas, the story of some teenagers who thought it would
be fun to throw stuff at people riding bicycles — and of some police
officers who thought what they did was serious enough to track them down
and stop them.
May 18, 2010
The Potential for Private Investment in Transit
Could private developers be the key to developing the nation’s
transit infrastructure?
May 17, 2010
To Succeed, Cities Need to Be Themselves
How should cities think about branding
themselves?
May 14, 2010