A draft executive order from President Trump making classical architecture the preferred option for significant federal buildings is controversial, yet (clumsily) gets at something important. In this case, try to resist letting the brand messenger taint the brand.
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Read MoreHalf a century ago, Rochester, New York — like so many other cities — built an urban highway that tore at the social fabric, decimated neighborhoods, and made the city increasingly fragile. Today, Rochester is showing cities that there is a better way.
Read MoreIf drivers—and not just cyclists—were required to learn bike-passing best practices, more lives would be saved and more people would feel comfortable riding.
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Read MoreAn accidental photo essay courtesy of Street View provides us a look at the appallingly low standard for what we expect people who walk in suburbia to put up with.
Read MoreAll too often, development happens to a neighborhood rather than for a neighborhood or with a neighborhood. “The Neighborhood Playbook” can help.
Read MoreVeteran advocates for a sane and financially sustainable transportation policy in Washington State see a chance to turn crisis into opportunity. And they're hoping to get state leaders to see it too.
Read MoreThere is no better way to discredit a campaign to reduce auto fatalities than to compare the risk of death by auto crash to the risk of death by viral pandemic.
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