Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Development

Find Yourself a City to Live In

By Sarah Goodyear | Apr 13, 2007 | 8 Comments

Walking the walk in Cambridge Could energy-efficient American cities be a key weapon in the battle against climate change? In a recent Boston Globe op-ed piece, Douglas Foy (former secretary of the Office of Commonwealth Development and president of DIF Enterprises) and Robert Healy (city manager of Cambridge, Mass.) argue that they must be exactly […]

City’s Parking Expansion Sustains Nothing but Motoring

By Sarah Goodyear | Apr 12, 2007 | 7 Comments

From the Tri-State Transportation Campaign‘s latest newsletter, three examples of how City Hall contradicts its stated Long-Term Planning and Sustainability goals with policies that foster more automobile dependence: The huge parking expansion associated with new Yankee Stadium construction has failed to attract any bids from private operators. The city has apparently scaled the seemingly uneconomic […]

City Pitches in for Yankee Stadium Parking

By Brad Aaron | Apr 9, 2007 | 16 Comments

What could be worse than replacing neighborhood parks with private parking decks, built with the specific intent of increasing car trips by the tens of thousands through a community already suffering from so much disease-causing pollution that its nickname is "Asthma Alley"? How about forcing afflicted residents to help foot the bill? That’s what could […]

An English Plan in New York

By Brad Aaron | Mar 28, 2007 | 3 Comments

The once traffic-filled street between Trafalgar Square and the National Gallery is now a thriving plaza. Climate change is a greater threat to London than terrorism, one of the city’s top planners said yesterday. Debbie McMullen (right), a one-time New Yorker who heads implementation of the "London Plan," made this matter-of-fact announcement at a Tuesday […]

PlaNYC 2030 Project “Tearing Things Up” at City Hall

By Aaron Naparstek | Mar 13, 2007 | 6 Comments

A tipster tells us of a particularly vigorous screaming match in City Hall last week between Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff and a career civil servant who must remain nameless. "You wouldn’t know it from outside appearances," the tipster says, "but the 2030 Project is really tearing things up inside City Hall right now. It’s a […]

Report from Atlanta: Don’t Walk This Way

By Sarah Goodyear | Mar 9, 2007 | 23 Comments

I can’t get behind Prevention Magazine’s ranking of New York as 39th among the nation’s most walkable cities. But after spending three days in Atlanta for a conference recently, I have no problem understanding why it rates 86th. Stuck, like most of the city’s legions of conventioneers, in the area around the Peachtree Center, I […]

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