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The federal government promised to undo past harms. Advocates are disillusioned.

What if the only way to open your dream cafe involved demolishing half of it?

Oklahoma residents discovered their homes were in the path of a massive highway expansion through local news, not official channels. Now a court has ruled the turnpike authority deliberately misled the public.

Sometimes all you need to make a street less dangerous for kids is a tape measure, paint roller, and a few hundred dollars of road paint.

In 2019, my basket of cookie baking ingredients cost $49.94. In 2022, that same basket costs $64.48.

While other places keep finding ways to say “no” to new housing, this Indiana city is offering pre-approved development templates to small-scale developers at no cost.

"So, here's the problem..." Transit is a wealth accelerator. Why aren't we thinking of it that way?

A top-down approach to addressing accidents fails to make streets safer. A local approach could change that.

There are thousands of stroad sections in the US. Transforming a good number of them is important to to the goal of improving quality of life and mobility in cities and towns.

Building affordable housing seems like a win for cities struggling in the Housing Trap. But between its top-down nature and the public subsidies it requires, affordable housing can actually make things worse.

These crashes aren’t accidents—they’re the predictable result of streets designed to forgive high-speed driving, even if that means putting people in harm’s way.

Americans drove less during the early months of the pandemic, yet traffic fatalities increased. Experts thought fatality rates would've since reverted. That didn’t happen.

What grandma's recipe for Christmas cookies tells us about inflation.

We often get questions about our hiring process, so we’ve laid it all out here so that others can put it to use in building their own teams.

Engineers are great at building roads, but we should never ask them to build our streets.

Calgary — like so many North American cities — is like an intergenerational dine-and-dash. Our children will get the bill.

You don’t have to be a math wizard to figure out if your town or city has more infrastructure than it can afford. Just follow these 5 simple steps.

Rural places can be walkable. But we shouldn’t have to go on vacation to find a walkable town.

What can grandma's cookie recipe tell us about inflation?

How one small town in South Carolina destroyed everything that makes their downtown...a downtown.