Faith communities have a unique and indispensable role in building stronger, more prosperous, and more resilient places. It’s easy to get started.
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If your town or city is going to be stronger and more resilient, its neighborhoods need to thrive. Here are 5 ways to help your neighborhood live up to its full potential.
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Fantasy can only get us so far. But we're lost without it.
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Countless advocates who want to do something to improve their community run into the “brick wall” of railroad land rights. Here are some of your options.
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In a “car place,” pedestrians are grudgingly tolerated. In a “pedestrian place,” cars are allowed to visit. We need a lot more of the latter. Here’s where to start.
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Diverging diamonds are forever, apparently. But don’t say they’re for pedestrians.
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People are driving at half the normal rate. Now’s the time to cultivate new uses for our streets—uses which will help us both now and into the future.
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Local festivals are reimagining “Jane’s Walk” to comply with social distancing guidelines, while still celebrating the sprit and genius of its namesake.
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Three things to notice on your daily walks that will help you build a stronger town.
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A touring musician reflects on how the speed and scale of life has contracted during the crisis. Does how we build our cities allow for a slower, more thoughtful pace during the good times too?
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No North American city is overcrowded. Not a single one.
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Walking is one of the best things you can do, even during a pandemic. There’s just one rule…
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Great urbanism: if it’s good enough for a vacation, then it’s good enough for everyday life.
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An 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.
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Investing in a supposedly “smart” future won’t overcome the failure to get the “dumb” stuff right. The former mayor of Seattle explains.
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New studies confirm people are willing to pay more to live in walkable neighborhoods. So why don’t we build more of them?
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Our world is isolating and disempowering for Americans who don’t drive. As the number of senior citizens reaches an all-time high, this desperately needs to change.
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We’ve long accepted a base level of carnage on our streets. But we should stop describing these as random “accidents.” They are the inevitable outcome of our chosen approach to building cities.
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Jaywalking laws do little for public safety—but they do reinforce the idea that city streets are for cars, and they result in harassment of otherwise law-abiding citizens. It’s time to do away with the whole notion of jaywalking.
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If the NHTSA wants to save lives, prevent injuries, and reduce vehicle-related crashes, they should stop blaming people who are walking when they are killed and injured by drivers.
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