July 2024

Must Read Induced Demand and Climate Denial.  As we’ve long said, the favorite folk tale of state DOTs and highway boosters is the idea that the primary solution to reducing greenhouse gas emissions is lowering

What City Observatory Did This Week The cost of the Interstate Bridge Replacement (IBR) is going up:  But we won’t tell you how much . . . And we’re not going to tell you until a

The cost of the Interstate Bridge Replacement (IBR) is going up:  But we won’t tell you how much . . . And we’re not going to tell you until a year from now, after the 2025

Must Read Denser cities = Less expensive infrastructure.  A new study from New Zealand confirms one of the fundamental intuitions about cities:  Places with higher levels of residential density have lower per capita and per

Must Read The problem with elevators in America.  Market Urbanism’s Stephen Smith has an op-ed in the New York Times opening up a new front in the YIMBY effort  to expand housing supply in the