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Streets

Texas Advocates Use Data to Win Street Safety Upgrades for Students

Streets

How One California City Teamed Up With Residents To Stop Speeding

Streets

Portland Advocates Defend Life-Saving Street Design — and Win a Pause

Parking

Why This Canadian City Said Goodbye to Parking Mandates (And How It Really Happened)

Local Conversations

Forget Megaprojects—This Teacher Has a Better Way to Fix Cities

Accounting

Columbus Locals Turn Data into Dialogue

Streets

Pedestrian Deaths Are Still Way Too High. Here's What Needs to Change.

Highways

How an Opera Singer Joined the Fight Against Freeways

Local Conversations

This City Is Implementing Street Design That Will Save Lives

Local Conversations

This City Relied on an Unstable Development Pattern for Generations—But Now, There’s Hope

Local Conversations

Not a Professional Engineer? You Can Still Help End Highway Expansions

Local Conversations

60 Letters Stopped Buildings Being Torn Down for Parking

Local Conversations

"How Can We Help Our City?" Start by Asking Questions.

Parking

Texan Local Advocates Put Couches and Potted Plants in Parking Spots

Local Conversations

A Safer Intersection in 80 Minutes

Highways

State Overreach of Power Demands Neighborhood Be Torn Down for New Interchange

Local Conversations

History Teacher Steps Up and Starts the Conversation for Change in Bloomington, Illinois