Incremental development today is far from the path of least resistance. To do it, you'll need the ability to navigate dozens of regulatory barriers.
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We need people who will build in the places where big, corporate developers won’t. But how do we get enough small-scale developers back to make a difference?
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What do we find when we look behind the "New Urbanist" façade of this master-planned development?
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Cities are complex systems…and maintaining a healthy system in a stable equilibrium is relatively easy. But restoring an unhealthy system back to equilibrium is very hard.
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SB 9 just passed in California, effectively ending single-family zoning there. The open question is, "What now?" Will anything actually change?
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Schools across the U.S. are experiencing a bus driver shortage, but the root cause of this issue has less to do with the COVID pandemic than one might think.
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How should we think about scalable impact, and how should it inform our approach when trying to grapple with big, pervasive problems?
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Here’s a roundup of five highway boondoggles that are threatening neighborhoods right now in the U.S. Think of it as a hall of shame.
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A recent Vice article seems to suggest that most Americans don’t want more walkable places. Here’s why that takeaway is totally wrong.
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We're at a tipping point in how we design and think about our public streets. And things can tip the right way, once we confront the bankrupt ideology guiding our transportation system.
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Conflating the one with the other keeps us from understanding the housing market in a coherent way. Here’s why.
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What a million-person festival and an experiment in pop-up entrepreneurship teach us about the incoherence of parking policy.
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It might seem counterintuitive that Amazon, the mall killer, would want to open its own department stores. But it’s worth understanding why the company sees this as a strategic move.
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And what this tells us about what the common buzzword really means.
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Cleveland’s “richest poor neighborhood” is empowering its neighbors to help each other.
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The question for a city with a history of embracing the suburban experiment is now, "Where should your energies be expended?"
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If you’ve got a parking shortage in your downtown, consider this unique, cost-effective solution: a valet service.
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The eviction moratorium is going to end, and when it does, we face the prospect of mass evictions throughout the country. Let's talk about what that means and what it says about our housing system.
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Cities are the economic engines of our society, yet as a recent report shows, their fiscal stability can be seriously affected by local tax limitations.
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We must stop seeing poor neighborhoods as "bad" neighborhoods, and instead understand them as intrinsically goods ones, whose problems are addressable if we empowered the people who care about them.
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