A well-intentioned focus on making streets that are safer to move along and across often misses the mark on creating places where people want to be.

How easy is it to reach a common destination (say, an ice cream shop) in your city or town by walking there?

A grassroots group is helping this lakefront city rethink safety, one experiment at a time.

After the sirens fade, the system starts to break down.

Vacant land undermines street life, public confidence, and investment momentum. Temporary uses communicate that a place is worth investing in.

How federal transit funding rewards visible transformation over real performance.

Stop asking people to imagine change. Instead, let them experience it.

By testing small, temporary changes, Madison, WI, is building safer streets and a culture of continuous improvement.

What if the real constraint on housing isn’t just zoning?

Every road transfer is a promise to pay for it later.

When cities measure mobility by speed, they often make everyday life harder to reach.

How federal funding distorts local streets.

A land swap in Langley, British Columbia, shows how early planning assumptions can create long-term problems for growing neighborhoods.

What we lost when we stopped building cities around their public rights-of-way.

"Outside city hall, there is great urgency. Inside city hall, everything slows down."

At what point do our barriers become excuses and what does that say about our priorities?

"Cities must give themselves permission to act like the stewards they already are."

Clearing our streets of snow is supposed to make them safer. Crash statistics tell a different story.

In a system built to find fault and not cause, the street is always innocent.

Snow exposes our city's priorities, but it also shows us what's possible.

A verb became a noun. A process became a product. And an approach became an adjective.

For cash-strapped transit agencies looking to improve the rider experience, less may actually be more.

What happens when transportation is designed for funding, not function.

Understanding the planning “pyramid” and how commissioners can use their position to shape better outcomes.