Going faster doesn’t mean your city gets anywhere more quickly, and it doesn’t make you happier.
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Peak hour car commuters have incomes almost double those who travel by transit, bike and foot.
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When we strongly incentivize anti-social behavior by big corporations, we get more of it.
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Portland is thinking about widening freeways; other cities show that doesn’t work.
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Oregon’s DOT seems to be more concerned with making cars go faster than saving lives.
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Build expensive new “luxury” apartments, and wait a few decades.
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Why would a national organization focused on energy efficiency and lowering carbon emissions give its employees free parking?
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How the price of parking impacts use of ride-hailing services.
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Is historic preservation just thinly veiled NIMBYism?
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So-called smart cities have an achilles heel: data is biased by the status quo.
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We are profoundly conflicted as a nation when it comes to housing: we want it to be affordable, but we also want its prices to rise fast enough to be valuable as a financial investment.
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The mental model that says traffic levels are some inexorable natural force like the tides, which must be accommodated or else, is just wrong.
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Until cities can lower the cost of building affordable housing, they'll never be able to create enough of it.
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Which cities move the fastest? Does it matter?
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If “big data” and “smart cities” are really going to amount to anything substantial, it has to be more than just generating high tech scare stories.
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What stories do we tell ourselves about the kind of world we want to live in?
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A new tolling system on the Ohio River is effectively paying motorists to waste time and fuel.
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If so many people live in suburbs, it must be because that’s what they prefer, right? Actually the evidence is to the contrary.
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Despite what you may read, urban poverty is still a big problem, but the growing national interest in urban living has the potential to turn that around.
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Those contemplating the widespread availability of self-driving cars are predicting everything from a new urban nirvana to a hellish exurban dystopia. But all of these projections hinge on a single fact about autonomous vehicles that we don’t yet know: how much they will cost to operate.
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