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In the event of a crash, when a person has been found jaywalking, the blame is pit on them. We don't ask why they were jaywalking. What if we did?

Rent control is best viewed as a short-term protection against being priced out of one’s own home, not a scalable affordability policy.

Free fares aren’t getting Estonians out of their cars. In fact, more of them drive today than in 2013.

Ottawa doesn't have a reckless pedestrian problem. It has a design problem.

Have you ever been dismissed at city hall when bringing up a persistent issue in your community?

Why does walking feel so intuitive when we’re in a city built before cars, yet as soon as we return home, walking feels like an unpleasant chore that immediately drives us into a car?

There's power in numbers, both in safety and visibility.

I was asked how much the typical suburban development is costing this Tennessee city. Here’s what I found.

“Is this place somewhere? Or is it nowhere? And what things might we start doing to make it feel like somewhere?”

A tanker truck caught fire, killing its driver and devastating over 100 feet of Interstate 95 above it. With the highway decommissioned, how did people get around?

When the status quo is producing traffic fatality after traffic fatality, it's time to experiment.

To understand why the suburban experiment struggles today, we have to look at how it first took hold.

“My heart feels like it died that day. My whole life has been affected and I can’t seem to grasp it back. I feel as if I can’t breathe at times.”

Wisconsin offered a $3 billion dollar subsidy to Foxconn and were promised a $10 billion factory and 13,000 jobs in exchange. Instead, the locals got three empty buildings, a few hundred jobs, and a mountain of debt. Sorry, Wisconsin. As Ronny Chieng from the Daily Show put it, “You got catfished.”

Stadium promises are seductive, but can they unlock real value in the heart of a struggling urban district?

This Maryland makeover is a cautionary tale of where “Complete Streets” fall short.

The story of a soda fountain in Chugwater, Wyoming.

This is what happens when a city cares more about decades-old requirements than the small businesses trying to bring life to a neighborhood.

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

"The art of a successful redevelopment project is understanding the regulations and the process for approval of the project."

“We can’t just convert stroads into streets or roads... we need to change the land-use around these stroads."

“Once surrounded by homes, the residents of Kelly Village now lived at the confluence of—almost underneath—two major highways."

"Cities can be so wonderful for so many people. Let’s not screw this up."