Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Sprawl

California Sues Municipalities for Bad Urban Planning

By Jason Varone | Jun 11, 2007 | 2 Comments

USA Today reports on a new development in the fight against climate change: California is pioneering what could be the next battleground against global warming: filing suit to hold cities and counties accountable for greenhouse gas emissions caused by poorly planned suburban sprawl. The unprecedented action is being closely watched by states that have taken […]

We Must Imagine a Future Without Cars

By Aaron Naparstek | Apr 11, 2007 | 7 Comments

From Alternet, the following is an excerpted version of James Howard Kunstler‘s recent speech to the Commonwealth Club of California, well worth reading in its entirety. An audio stream of the speech is also available: Two years ago in my book The Long Emergency I wrote that our nation was sleepwalking into an era of […]

Robert Moses’s Fundamental Misunderstanding

By Jason Varone | Feb 9, 2007 | 28 Comments

In the latest issue of the Regional Plan Association’s Spotlight on the Region newsletter, editor Alex Marshall has an outstanding essay responding to the recent burst of Robert Moses revisionism. An excerpt: It all comes down to capacity. Like many people of his generation, I’m convinced, Moses essentially didn’t understand the different capabilities of […]

Eyes on the Street: Grim, Immovable

By Aaron Donovan | Feb 2, 2007 | 9 Comments

The BQE, as seen from Lorimer Street. All this talk about Robert Moses lately leads one to think about the Freeway Revolt.

Holiday Book Recommendations Open Thread

By Aaron Donovan | Dec 18, 2006 | 17 Comments

Some of us at Streetsblog headquarters were talking about putting together a sidebar listing of recommended books to reinforce the commentary you find on the blog. I put together a few brief recommendations of five of my favorites, but we’re also interested in learning what you’ve all been reading and what you’d suggest to others, so […]

The Cost of Sprawl on Low-Income Families

By Aaron Donovan | Oct 17, 2006 | 8 Comments

Via the Manhattan Institute’s new blog, Streetsblog learns of a pdf-formatted report entitled A Heavy Load: The Combined Housing and Transportation Burdens of Working Famillies, which looks at the housing and transportation expenses paid by lower income families in a number of cities. The report, published by the Center for Housing Policy, a K Street […]

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