Extend the "open streets" and sidewalk dining revolution to include a fair shake for the smallest of small entrepreneurs.
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What do you do when you can’t travel further than your own backyard? Rediscover the backyard you only think you know.
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Today’s trendiest neighborhood will be tomorrow’s old news. Should this matter to a Strong Towns advocate?
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New York’s newest BRT line is being called the “Miracle on 14th Street.” But why is it so miraculous?
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Public spaces are often shortchanged in government budgets. Yet they provide outsized benefits compared to how little our communities usually invest in them. Public spaces should be celebrated and protected. Here are four reasons why.
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Scooters are often perceived as a nuisance on public streets. But nearly every problem blamed on them is ultimately a consequence of the way our cities are designed to privilege the movement and storage of cars above all else.
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Cars take up a lot of space. And one way or another, that imposes very real costs on our cities. New York just took an important step toward acknowledging and covering those costs.
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Historically, a decentralized, trial-and-error process was how cities “discovered” which urban design features worked best for their own circumstances. Let’s look at the evolution of front setbacks in New York to understand how this works.
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More and more, New York City is becoming a ghost town where only the super rich can afford to live, and retail can’t afford to stay open. But is simple greed the reason why?
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It’s not just ride-hailed traffic that causes congestion; its all traffic. Singling out these app-based services for regulation takes transportation policy down a dead-end route.
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Plus some musings on the nature of our present-day cities, and what they once were.
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From the towering Xerox Square, to the grand Civic Center, to the glistening Riverside Convention Center, virtually every corner of downtown Rochester has been “revitalized”, so why does it still feel so dead?
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Balancing the relationship between residents, businesses and public perception is a challenging task, but our cities stand to gain a lot if we can get it right.
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These Rochester neighborhoods offer simple lessons that every town can employ to improve its economic success and wellbeing.
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Should cities invest in big projects in the hopes of increasing tourism, or should they invest in the people that have already taken a risk by moving back into their long-dormant downtowns?
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How do we bridge the physical gap between regional mass transit options and city destinations? The answer may rest in the growing movement of bike share.
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My urban walks in cities around the world have shown me the richness of places that embrace walking, and why encouraging walkable environments in cities is quite simply the right thing to do.
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I ran the numbers and made a plan for building a traditional urban neighborhood. It turns out there's big profit to be made in this model.
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These places all have many of the physical elements needed for success, quite frankly, because they were built for it originally. What they need most is people; people that care about the place and have the energy to make it better.
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