Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Dallas

Talking Headways Podcast: Escobar’s Escalator

By Tanya Snyder | Apr 17, 2014 | 1 Comment

Did you go to the World Urban Forum in Medellín, Colombia, last week? Neither did your hosts Jeff Wood and I, but we sure found a lot to say about it anyway on this week’s Talking Headways podcast. Medellín’s remarkable urban transformation — undertaken in the midst of war — has gotten a lot of […]

Parking Madness Elite Eight Matchup: Dallas vs. Jacksonville

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 31, 2014 | 10 Comments

We’re on to round two of Parking Madness, our search for the worst parking crater in North America. And I have to say, the parking craters in this match do seem to have descended to a new level of horribleness. Dallas and Jacksonville are both such overachieving parking cities, it’s almost a shame they meet […]

Parking Madness: Newark vs. Dallas

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 25, 2014 | 21 Comments

We’re halfway through the first round of the 2014 Parking Madness tournament, with Kansas City, Detroit, Chicago, and Jacksonville having advanced to the next round. Today’s matchup pairs two very different cities with the same problem: parking craters. A reader submitted the following definition yesterday: park-ing cra-ter (noun) is “ugly, and an inefficient use of space in a […]

Dallas Official: Without a Highway Teardown, Park Gets “Free Shade”

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 4, 2014 | 2 Comments

Getting officials on board with a highway teardown in Dallas is no easy task. Just ask Patrick Kennedy, a Dallas planner who has led the charge to remove IH-345, an elevated stump of a highway near central Dallas. Last week, the Texas Department of Transportation dismissed the teardown proposal out of hand, refusing to even […]

The Grassroots Campaign for a Highway Teardown in Dallas

By Angie Schmitt | Jul 3, 2013 | No Comments

Three years ago, Dallas-based planning consultant Patrick Kennedy and his friend, developer Brandon Hancock, started wondering why you couldn’t do a highway teardown in the Big D. They picked a highway: IH345, an elevated connector route between downtown and the Deep Ellum neighborhood. Then they thought, “Why not? Let’s do a study.” Between the two […]

Q&A With Jason Roberts, the Brains Behind “Better Blocks”

By Angie Schmitt | May 31, 2013 | 1 Comment

The Better Block project, founded less than 10 years ago in Dallas, Texas, is not only changing streets for the better — in many ways, it’s changing the urban planning process. Better Block brings “pop-up,” temporary businesses into abandoned buildings, creates temporary bike lanes with chalk and cones, turns underused parking spaces into outdoor cafés, […]

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