Neighborhood Mystique is a semi-regular series on unheralded yet handsome neighborhoods in Philadelphia. Typical Belmont Village airlite...

Just because I haven't been posting doesn't mean I haven't been working on stuff! Here are some projects I'm hoping to publi...

The first thought I have on Old Urbanism is about street width. Old Urbanists--particularly Nathan Lewis and Charlie Gardner --argue that o...

I spent some time the past couple of weeks researching fares for commuter rails in the U.S. What I was after was a way to compare these far...

This is a new series, called Neighborhood Mystique. Here I document some underappreciated neighborhoods in the city with excellent "bon...

Some time ago I started a 3 (now 3.5) part series on improving transit in Maryland and D.C. The first part designed improvements to the Was...

A little while ago I wrote a post describing my ideas for improving Maryland commuter rail service. They included: Combining MARC and V...

The proposal I'm putting forward is a simple one--consolidate the 17 and 33 into a single new route , eliminating the current Market E...

The bankrupt bookstore, Borders , announced a couple of days ago that it will liquidate its remaining assets , after a deal with the Najaf...

A common criticism of zoning is its often-asinine parking requirements. Why, for example, should every new rowhome on an urban block have to...

So, since the Democrats dawdled their way out of a supermajority that could have easily allowed them to pass a good urban-oriented national ...

Nearly every American zoning code takes minimum parking requirements for granted: every habitable structure has to have a minimum of so-and-...

This is the second in a three-part series on improving transit in the southern part of the Northeast. The first focused on the Washington Me...

This is an outrage . So a legally-mandated bridge crossing that has been in the works for three years and was designed with a lot of co...

In the comments to my post on grids , Charlie over at Old Urbanist suggested that I create a physical representation of my ideal city from ...

This is the first post of a three-post series (maybe) on improving transportation in Maryland, D.C., and northern Virginia. In the first pos...