Scott Jones is the co-founder and executive director of We Love Long Beach, a nonprofit that encourages and equips residents to build connections with their neighbors through acts of generosity and hospitality.
Read MoreThe latest Highway Boondoggles Report is out, showcasing just how much money is being wasted on highway expansion projects across the U.S.
Read MoreHere’s a local program that began with seeing a struggle in the community—and made a humble, but impactful, attempt to respond to it.
Read MoreFor successful placemaking, small, consistent investments over time matter more than grand gestures.
Read MoreAfter one meeting and a little over $3,000, Medicine Hat, AB, decided to take a bottom-up approach to invest in a community-led program that has made better use of their public parks and children’s playgrounds.
Read MoreA recent public health study out of Johns Hopkins has found that narrow lanes reduce crashes on streets, and recommends that lanes as narrow as 9 feet wide be the default.
Read MoreA launch party was held in Kingston, NY, for the Plus One Home Program, an initiative that hopes to accelerate the creation of accessory dwelling units.
Read MoreOur cities are often chasing too many goals and rarely succeeding at all of them. Building safe, beautiful cities requires recovering singularity of focus.
Read MoreRestrictive zoning can make it so that smaller residential developments face the same prohibitively expensive restrictions as larger commercial units. But the state of North Carolina has passed a new bill to address this issue.
Read MoreCities in Massachusetts are among the most walkable in the U.S., so why is progress for safer streets there so maddeningly slow?
Read MoreLos Angeles is often held up as the case study for car-centric development run amok, but in recent years, the city has been pursuing a completely different path: public transit champion.
Read MoreThe best time to influence a development proposal so that it fits well into its urban context is early, not late, in the process.
Read MoreOne of the most frustrating things about transportation policy is the obvious double standard when it comes to cars versus everything else.
Read MoreHere are six tried and tested, “no-brainer” zoning reforms any city or town in North America should consider adopting.
Read MoreRent control gets held up as a generic answer to high housing costs, but people often aren’t clear about what problem, exactly, they believe rent control is intended to solve.
Read MoreWe talk with author Jake Berman about the history of rail networks in America’s cities and why our transit systems are the way that they are in the current era.
Read MoreCities need more transaction-free third spaces.
Read MoreLandlords may no longer be “land lords” in the historical sense, but they are still charged with a great number of responsibilities at a deeply local level—so, what does it mean to be a good steward of the land?
Read MoreThe rise of trunk-or-treat is just another outcome of our streets becoming more dangerous, but it’s important we come together and save the tradition of trick-or-treating.
Read MoreMaryland legislators have called for an infrastructure review of every crash that causes the death of a pedestrian or cyclist on state highways—but one local advocate is checking the state’s work, and there’s some problems with it.
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