Challenges Ahead for Tyson's Corner To Become Livable City
"The transformation of Tysons Corner from a car-dominated tangle of offices, malls and auto dealers into a livable city will start moving ahead in the coming weeks.Publication Date: Thu, 05/29/2008
View ArticleHow the Road Construction Industry is Destroying Japan
"The results have been a disaster. Certainly, Japan has a lot of roads: four to five times the number of any other Group of Seven country when measured by kilometers of road to usable land. The trouble...
View ArticleAccessibility Vs. Mobility Redux
I’m going to riff off a recent Interchange Blog post by Michael Lewyn on the relationship between mobility and accessibility. Given the positive comments from the planning community to Michael’s post,...
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Could General Stores Reduce Car Trips in The Suburbs?
Under the scheme, everyday amenities would be "shoehorned into an existing building such as a pool house, and an added porch would create space for socializing." It would provide basic groceries,...
View ArticleDenver's I-70 Expansion Undercuts Alternatives
Plans to widen the I-70 in Denver to ten lanes have met opposition for being, according to this piece, a money-hog of questionable urban merit. Publication Date: Thu, 05/07/2015
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Feds Coming Around to Level of Service Reform
"[F]or a very long time one metric has reigned supreme on American streets," writes Angie Schmitt: "'Level of Service,' a system that assigns letter grades based on motorist delay." Here, Schmitt...
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The Invisible Hand That Designed Your City
A simple trip to your local grocery store is a result of the culmination of thousands of other decisions, both large and small, made by total strangers over the past 80 years or so.Publication Date:...
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