Saw this at Zero Hedge . Keep in mind the deep structural fragilit ies of the average four-anchor regional mall . There's the fragil...

I am continuing to think about Tverberg , the strengths and weaknesses of her work. Today, I want to focus on what I think is her greatest w...

One of my favorite blogs for thinkers is Gail Tverberg's Our Finite World --she is perhaps among the most perceptive people on the blogo...

While this post started as a fork from Compromises on North Broad , it is really a topic unto itself, and a core post of my thinking on how ...

Jon Geeting recently picked up on an implicit idea in my Width, and the Perception of Width  article: giving Broad Street the same design ...

Franklin Flea I checked out Franklin Flea this morning, and found out something surprising about Strawbridge's. The elevator hall...

From Stephen Smith : The Guadalupe-Lamar corridor was, Project Connect conceded, by far the most popular option at the three public infor...

Something I've been mulling over: Land use is the derivative of the transportation system . What I mean by this is that the nature of ...

Two thoughts: 1. I would like to call attention to two images in this post . While the author does not flat-out say it, if you take...

This has also run on Strong Towns and This Old City ; these are the permalinks for both . Looking at these two links-- Hector Street, Co...

While still an undercurrent in urbanist media, people are starting to take note of our fundamentally broken approach to passenger rail safet...

Short and sweet. Make sure there are facilities to dispense and charge NPT cards at every single subway, El, Regional Rail, NHSL, and 101...

How it's done: SEPTA's NPT wants to act like London's Oyster Card, but with an open platform. Many Oyster best practices are ...

I must admit, I was wrong. Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. Some time ago I went on a rant about how SEPTA and PATCO need to co...

or, why NPT and the Freedom Card need to be compatible a working paper à la Nate Hood "Organization before electronics before c...

Somehow it's unsurprising that, in our state's game of political brinkmanship between PennDOT and Amtrak, the right wing supports ki...

This emerged as a comment to this Old Urbanist post , but was rejected because of its length: So the conventional theory is dead wrong; t...