Kinzie St protected bike lane, Chicago Protected bike lanes are a long time coming in Philadelphia. Five years ago, we were among the co...

The Market-Frankford Line has a capacity issue. It's crowded during rush hour. And its crowding isn't just in Center City, it'...

Saw this quote in this article : The  Minneapolis policy , proposed by Council Member Lisa Bender, would eliminate all parking requireme...

As if in a coda to my post the other day , Plan Philly  brings news of the apartment project at 43rd and Baltimore -- across the street f...

These concrete tree thingies that seem to be generally Brutalist have proven to be aesthetically successful over time. A combination of si...

At the beginning of the year, Charlie Gardner at Old Urbanist   offered an academic's findings on zoning, especially where American pra...

So I stumbled across this post the other day. In it, the poster argues that, while the northern half of Jersey City's Newport district ...

According to the Business Journal , American Water is getting a $164 million tax break to move to Camden. This is on top of this short lis...

Found this AP wire today:  http://www.philly.com/philly/business/transportation/304536631.html Mayor Zimmer is right not to be happy, and ...

With JFK Plaza (aka LOVE Park)'s redesign plans being released --  to Inga Saffron's acclaim -- the city is now reinvesting in two ...

(This post started as a fork from the previous post, The Streetcar Fiasco .) Let us recall, for reference,  Width, and the Perception of W...

Streetcars have become a major fad over the past few years, ever since Portland put in theirs. Portland Streetcar In Portland's cas...

In my last post I talked about the potential Kansas City's rail alignments offer . Now I want to discuss the challenges. Fig 1. Here ...

So for various reasons -- some of which are probably related to hormones and such -- my thoughts have taken a recent Midwestern turn. In par...

From Landscape Urbanism and its Discontents , courtesy Envision Baltimore : Rather than having an urban fabric based on spatial definition...

Pertinent to this post : Since the PPA has no inkling of what the actual supply of any of their permit zones actually is , they routinely ...

One of my long-term projects has been developing a mathematical model for scheduling in Jarrett Walker-type transit systems. Today, I made ...

I've been playing a lot of Skyrim  lately, and ruminating on Elder Scrolls lore, so if you pardon this nerding-out, I'd like to offe...