Choosing a design speed is an application of core values. We shouldn't allow the engineering profession to make this decision for us.
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The most compelling thing we can do today to make our cities wealthier and more successful is to substantially slow automobile speeds on our streets.
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Charles Darwin said, "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.”
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Essential air service is a bottomless pit of subsidies that drain critical resources from struggling communities.
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Here’s how to adapt the 12-step model for a community wanting to come to grips with financial insolvency.
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This video provides a clear and compelling explanation for why homes cost so much. But there's more to the story.
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This is how you start (and win) a conversation about repealing minimum parking requirements.
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We can make low risk, high returning investments in our cities while improving the quality of life for people, particularly those who are not benefiting from the current approach.
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In this formative series, we lay out the value and importance of incremental development — and why it must be the only path forward if we want to build strong towns.
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Improving a city doesn't take a lot of money. It just takes courage.
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Our cities are so financially fragile and desperate for growth that they will do anything to land America's most eligible corporate bachelor.
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Here are the 6 best books I read this year.
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Small maintenance projects focusing on below ground infrastructure in old, established neighborhoods have the greatest potential for positive returns.
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The line between optimism and reality can be a fine one to walk.
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Infrastructure was supposed to serve us. Now we serve it.
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Leaders in Shreveport, Louisiana want to construct a new highway right through the heart of their city. And the economic arguments they're using to justify it are completely bogus.
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Many people would have us believe that America is failing to invest in its infrastructure. If only it were that simple.
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A federal infrastructure bill is going to make your city poorer in the long run. Here's why.
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We don’t need a parking lot as badly as we need our city to become financially strong and healthy.
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Let's make a final push today to get to 2000 members. We can do it. And then we'll continue to do great things together.
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