If it "doesn't make sense" for the people that live along a dead end road to pick up the cost of maintaining it, what does make sense?
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The Housing Development Tool Kit released this week by the White House has some great ideas every city should implement. It also has some things that should stay in the ivory tower.
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The White House takes aim at some of the our cities' worst development practices.
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Large surface parking lots do not make good neighbors.
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When you hear a politician or an economist touting the payback in infrastructure spending, they are either ignorant or are feeding you cheap propaganda. Either way, we need to demand better.
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Join us on Tuesday, September 20 to chat about infrastructure spending in America.
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It is very likely that, within the next 12 to 24 months, your community is going to get some money for infrastructure. What are you going to do with it?
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Most teachers I know are amazing people, but the system they're working under doesn't always produce the best teachers to meet the needs of every kid. Here's a different approach.
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What if we shifted all transportation funding into the classroom? What if we ended the mandate for schools to provide transportation?
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Safe Routes to School is a very popular federal program designed to make is easier for students to walk and bike to school. What if we instead chose to build Schools on Safe Routes?
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As a society, we are zealous when it comes to the safety of children. And rightfully so. Still, for some reason we find it perfectly acceptable to routinely include them in the most dangerous activity of American life: riding in a car.
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We will not have strong cities, towns and neighborhoods without our school systems being part of the effort.
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Our decision during the 2016 election is not about whether or not to build infrastructure as a way to experience growth. No, our decision is about what to maintain and to what extent we will walk away from stuff we built in the past. The easy growth is done and has been for some time.
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America has an infrastructure crisis, but it's not the one you think it is.
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Hospitals around the country are realizing that it is good policy and good business to take an interest in the welfare of the neighborhoods they are in.
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Respected economists know that investing in infrastructure clearly makes us richer. It's obvious. No further discussion needed... Respected economists are wrong.
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Duncan's approach -- and the bipartisan approach of others who would shower money on our current system -- can only make our fragility problem worse. This thinking scares me.
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If the global economy is like a hot air balloon, we're only given the option to continually go higher -- despite the risk -- or cut all the air and crash. Those options aren't good enough.
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Ponder what life will be like following another decade or two of inversion, with society’s arrangements -- no longer able to be propped up by an expanding state. Consider an America where the affluent inhabit our core cities and the poor are left behind on our suburbanized outskirts.
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We never calculate—let alone track—the public's actual return-on-investment (dollars in versus dollars out over multiple life cycles) when we do a project. We never even ask the question.
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