My town bills itself as a walkable community, but refuses to put its money where its mouth is.
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Sometimes the best thing that can come from a project is to have it be a warning beacon for others.
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Do we want to make life easy on the experts, or make Detroit a better place that can also pay its bills?
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Dallas is not financially productive. There is too much area to service and maintain and not enough wealth to do it. There's too much stuff and not enough place.
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Seattle Seahawks player, Richard Sherman, says he wants to "make the billionaires who actually benefit from the stadiums pay for them."
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In this week's featured member post, Mike Williams highlights the success of an incentive program that has led to a stunning rebirth of Fargo's downtown.
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Maine's response to a serious road maintenance funding emergency is to cling to AASHTO’s archaic code book while projecting a value system of improve, Improve, IMPROVE, even going so far as to assume massive traffic increases where there is little traffic today.
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Proposed changes to federal rules on congestion mitigation reaffirm that real responses to the complex problems we face will only come from our cities, towns and neighborhoods.
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The city of Bismarck, ND is struggling with how to pay for miles and miles of unproductive transportation investments. The North Dakota Watchdog Network -- that has put forth ten questions they would like to see answered as part of this dialogue.
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Here in one commercial is everything that is wrong with our economy.
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Special guest Joe Minicozzi joins Chuck Marohn to talk about the movie The Big Short and their own experience with big money and shady land deals.
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A sophisticated set of questions a city should be asking when they are looking at doing a major project.
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City-owned golf courses are no better than big box stores when it comes to tax revenue.
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When we prioritize local, we aren’t just participating in a trendy consumer pattern. We are actively building stronger local economies and stronger towns.
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Rockford faces the challenge of reinventing itself while also meeting the mounting obligations of decades of infrastructure expansion. We did a little digging of our own to try and better understand the true nature of the deficit.
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A video by Urban Three shows the changing wealth patterns of Huntington, WV.
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The Governmental Accounting Standards Board now requires cities to disclose, as part of their financial reporting, the amount of money lost to tax subsidies. This is a significant development.
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A code smell is a piece of code that correctly executes a given task (i.e. it's not a bug) but its construction indicates deeper flaws in the logic and design of a program.
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The Idaho legislature recently ended its 2015 session with a transportation funding compromise that included passage of a seven cent per gallon increase in the gas tax and additional registration fees.
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Transit supporters from Seattle and the region have been working hard to get Sound Transit to the ballot by 2016, and with good reason. We desperately need better rail transit. Unfortunately, our zeal for rail is being used against us to produce a transportation package that does far more harm than good.
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