A lot of the New Urbanist corpus--particularly the town planning elements--focuses on the traditional town planning model. Their ultimate de...

A comment I made on an Atlantic Cities article : A minimum wage indexed to (a) local CoL and (b) inflation would (should) yield a minim...

Some fun stuff: A recent Strong Towns post tells us that (1) sales taxes are increasingly being used as DOT slush funds (due to excessive...

Well fuck. This image is the global temperature-deviation-from-mean chart as of December 2013. It is published by NASA's Goddard Ins...

Providence Union Station--back in the day Alon Levy has kindly pointed out to me that none of the bypasses of the Providence curve reall...

Of all the cities served by the Northeast Corridor (NEC), Providence has the most severe alignment problem. Providence Station: Inadequa...

Yesterday, Alon Levy offered a critique of the Regional Plan Association's Metro-North critique . As this post is framed in the context...