A Rough Beast Slouches Toward the Brent Spence Bridge

As local and regional politicians move forward on a $3 billion highway widening project, a local group of activists in Cincinnati are fighting for an alternative plan.

Infrastructure, #NoNewRoads, Transportation, Top StoryRyan CraneAugust 22, 2022highways, End Highway Expansion, freeway widening, Cincinnati, Ohio, race, Race, Infrastructure, infrastructure, infrastructure cult, transportation, transportation spending, #NoNewRoads

The Brent Spence Boondoggle

Local leaders in Ohio and Kentucky are gearing up to make a multi-billion dollar mistake on this bridge equivalent of a highway-widening project.

#DotheMath, Infrastructure, Transportation, Top StoryRyan CraneApril 18, 2022Cincinnati, freeway widening, induced demand, highways, highway spending, transportation spending, Ohio, kentucky, Infrastructure, infrastructure, infrastructure cult, infrastructure spending, #DoTheMath

How Adaptable Is Your Neighborhood?

A new toolkit helps neighborhoods measure their adaptive capacity.

Neighborhoods, Top StoryJoshua PineJanuary 27, 2021Cincinnati, placemaking, neighborhood

Activating Spaces and Developing Places with "The Neighborhood Playbook"

All too often, development happens to a neighborhood rather than for a neighborhood or with a neighborhood. “The Neighborhood Playbook” can help.

Economic DevelopmentJohn PattisonFebruary 4, 2020Cincinnati, Development, urban planning, traditional development pattern

A Place for the "In-Betweeners"

Our visions for community can, paradoxically, blind us to the reality of community. How one designer is learning to tell a better story by making an authentic place for herself and other “in-betweeners.”

Neighborhoods, Top StoryMegan TrischlerSeptember 24, 2019community, Cincinnati, Neighborhoods

"Start Small, and Make a Lot of Noise": How to Improve a Neighborhood from the Bottom Up

There are huge swaths of 1950s and 1960s suburbia that need a bit of TLC—and expensive, top-down “sprawl repair” isn’t going to be up to the task. What’s required is a more patient, grassroots approach. Urban planner John Yung has some ideas.

Neighborhoods First, Neighborhood Design, Podcast, Planning Profession, Top StoryDaniel HerrigesJuly 1, 2019neighborhood revitalization, placemaking, suburbs, Ohio, Cincinnati, sprawl retrofit

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