Why are DOTs in love with one-way frontage roads?

The physical challenge of this generation is to contract our cities to something financially viable. This is prompted by the financial challenge of not having enough money to make good on all the promises prior generations made to themselves. The accompanying social challenge is going to be to make this transition without leaving people behind, without leaving the least empowered among us isolated on the periphery of the community.

If Memphis wants to innovate, and if Memphis wants to make really high returning public investments, it isn’t going to happen from the top/down. Successful innovation starts at the bottom and works its way up.

Tactical Urbanism: A city, organization and /or citizen-led approach to neighborhood building using short-term, low-cost and scalable interventions intended to catalyze long term change.

Cities have revenues. Cities have expenses. If a city’s revenues do not exceed their expenses, a city doesn’t go out of business. No. What happens is that things go bad. And people get hurt.