August 2015

What City Observatory did this week 1.  The suburbs: where the rich ride transit.  In many cities, transit ridership is dominated by a transit dependent population:  people who can afford to own private cars don’t

OK, we admit it.  We’re data geeks.  To us, sometimes — well, often — a single number or data set is compelling proof of an important proposition:  bare-naked, and with no verbal embellishment or deeply

Over at Belt Magazine, editor Anne Trubek is fed up with the overuse of planning cliches in writing about cities.  She’s asking, nay demanding, that everyone stop using ten words: walkability liveability placemaking civic engagement

As Robert Caro chronicled in his riveting biography “The Power Broker,” the great builder Robert Moses had a foolproof strategy for getting new highways approved.  He’d take a little bit of money and get the

This isn’t actually a post about transit. It’s about land use. But we’ll get there in a second. Enrique Peñalosa, the former mayor of Bogotá, Colombia, is responsible for one of the most widely-shared quotes

This isn’t actually a post about transit. It’s about land use. But we’ll get there in a second. Enrique Peñalosa, the former mayor of Bogotá, Colombia, is responsible for one of the most widely-shared quotes