Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Smart Growth

State Farm Opts for Atlanta Transit Over Sprawl

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 20, 2014 | 3 Comments

It was a major coup for the Atlanta region when State Farm announced yesterday locate one of its three national hubs there, a move that will bring 3,000 new jobs over the next 10 years. But what really makes this news interesting is that State Farm chose to put its new campus right next to […]

Talking Headways Podcast: Bikes of Ill Repute

By Tanya Snyder | Jan 28, 2014 | 1 Comment

Jeff Wood and I are back with episode 8 of the Talking Headways podcast. We talk about Los Angeles Metro’s decision not to extend light rail all the way to LAX (and what they’re doing instead), plus some analysis of what rail can really do in a city as spread-out as LA. Then we head […]

Warning Signs From Columbus About America’s Big Suburban Housing Glut

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 24, 2014 | 14 Comments

Columbus, Ohio, is a convenient microcosm of the United States as a whole. Demographically, Columbus closely resembles America. That’s one reason the city ends up being a battleground for presidential candidates every four years, and why fast food chains like to test new menu items there. Because Columbus is so, well, typical, the city also […]

Military Rules on Smart Growth Are About to Become Law

By Tanya Snyder | Dec 16, 2013 | 2 Comments

The U.S. military probably may not be the first institution that comes to mind when you think smart growth and sustainable planning, but it has embraced these practices wholeheartedly. Last year, the military adopted a whole new rulebook on master planning. And now, those rules are about to become law. Over the summer, Rep. Earl […]

Analysts: Suburb-to-City Migration Driving Real Estate Markets in Canada

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 25, 2013 | No Comments

Urban real estate is a hot commodity in Canada. Suburban real estate, not so much. PricewaterhouseCoopers, in coordination with the Urban Land Institute, analyzed urban and suburban properties and found a lot more office space in the central city worth buying or holding than in the burbs [PDF]. For its 2014 Emerging Trends report, one […]

In Cleveland, An Old-School Planning Agency Sees the Light

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 21, 2013 | 3 Comments

Cleveland’s metropolitan planning organization was one of those transportation agencies that had never quite gotten over the Eisenhower era. Sure, it threw some money at the transit agency every year. But for the most part, the Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency (NOACA) treated its mission as a simple matter of expanding roads to reduce congestion. […]

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