Why Neighborhood Social Life Starts At the Street Corner
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When street corners are built to accommodate people instead of vehicles, you have the makings of a strong, interconnected community.
Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Land Use
Virginia Snowstorm Nightmare Highlights Need For Better Transportation Policy
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A record-breaking snowstorm that left countless drivers, including a U.S. senator, stranded overnight on a Virginia highway has some advocates questioning the region's auto-centric transportation system.
Yes, Even Walmart Wants to Build Smaller Parking Lots
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At the peak of its parking investment, Walmart was building six parking spaces per thousand square feet of store. But that's changed.
Talking Headways Podcast: Not Just Wires, Pipes, and Roads
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This week, we’re talking about the importance a systems approach in interconnected topics like transportation, education, and health care (yes, they're interconnected!).
Talking Headways Podcast: Optimism on Infrastructure
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This week we’re joined by Linda Samuels, associate professor of urban design at Washington University in St. Louis, to talk about her book "Infrastructural Optimism." We chat about how growth for growth’s sake is not the answer, learn from postmodernist urbanism, and why systems should be more connected.
‘An Epic Mistake’: Donald Shoup Reflects on America’s Parking Failure
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"There are so many ways in which we’d be better off if we reformed our parking policy: reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, nitrous oxide emissions, particulate pollution, traffic crashes. Urban planners have made epic mistakes in almost all of their parking policies. But now they can fix it."