A look at how regulations shape land use in Marietta, Georgia illustrates a vicious cycle: when your zoning code is premised on car-dependency, car-dependency becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Policy choices are often presented to us as simplistic binaries, or irresolvable clashes of competing values. Have the courage to step outside that box and ask more fundamental questions.
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Automated vehicle technology will do nothing to make our streets better places to be.
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The auto-oriented development pattern is an approach with limited financial upside and lots of downside. How much better does traditional development perform?
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Auto-oriented towns experience serious challenges that negatively impact small businesses, community health, and financial success for everyone.
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Here's an apples-to-apples comparison of traditional and auto-oriented development approaches. Guess which one is more financially productive.
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A children's pamphlet created by the National Highway Users Conference in 1938 offers insight into our auto-oriented history.
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An apples-to-apples comparison of traditional and auto-oriented development approaches.
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Provo, UT is undertaking a grand experiment in suburbanizing a public high school. Here are 3 major problems with that plan.
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Langley Park’s auto-oriented development pattern imposes unneeded costs and burdens upon those who can least afford them.
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Land use and transportation policies like zoning provide the pretense of order through artificial constructs that suppress the natural order. Moreover, they mask the incompetence of modern urban designers.
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What the final ailment for Detroit was simply doesn't matter to me. The auto-centric style of development undermined the resiliency of the city, tearing down social, political and financial strength that had made Detroit one of the world's greatest cities. Once Detroit became a fragile city, it was only a matter of time.
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Pedestrian safety programs acknowledge a problem, but fail to truly solve it.
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Chuck Marohn responds to critiques of his essay, Sprawl is not the Problem.
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All the talk about urbanism these days is dominated by places like Brooklyn, Portland, Vancouver, and San Francisco because they’re prosperous and fashionable. It’s so easy to dismiss them as anomalies.
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The American, auto-based development pattern is a huge experiment. Part two of our Curbside Chat video series.
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In the lead up to CNU 23 in Dallas next week, the American Conservative asked me to write a feature story on the New Urbanism. This was quite an honor. The piece ran in this week's print publication and is also now available online.
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What is sad is that these guys are so good at communication in general but so BAD at communicating to the masses of people who need to be on board to make this kind of thing happen.
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Walkable, human-oriented communities tend to be the happiest and healthiest, where the younger generation is looking to live, and the most financially productive types of places to build and retain. Creating human oriented communities is the essence of creating a Strong Town.
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Cities that tethered their future to this experiment are going to struggle while those that still have a pulse in their core neighborhoods will have a chance at renewed prosperity.
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