In auto-land, pedestrians are just one more patented gimmick away from being safe The dominant approach to automobile safety has, for many years, been the quintessential technical fix. Some combination of new technologies (anti-lock brakes,
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The young and restless are continuing to move to the nation’s large cities One trend that highlights the growing demand for city living is the increasing tendency of well-educated young adults to live in the
Cities continue to attract smart young adults Read Post »
Affordable housing and sensible transportation were our most-read features #7 – Urban myth busting: How building more high income housing helps affordability. One of the predictable lamentations about the housing market is that developers are
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What City Observatory did this week 1. Should cities be worried about “Peak Millennial?” Time magazine highlighted data from three cities where the count of millennials has declined in the past year, according to the
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We’re pleased to publish this guest post from Akron’s Jason Segedy. It originally appeared on his blog Notes from the Underground. Drawing on his practical experience in a rust-belt city, he offers a compelling new
How the g-word poisons public discourse on making cities better Read Post »
A key design element of the supposedly pedestrian friendly Rose Quarter freeway cover is a pedestrian hostile diverging diamond interchange One of the main selling points of the plan to spend nearly half a billion
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