Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Suburbia

How Hartford’s Bet on Cars Set the Stage for Population Loss and Segregation

By Tanya Snyder | Apr 17, 2014 | No Comments

Hartford, Connecticut, has one of the highest poverty rates in the country. The urban renaissance that has visited so many cities hasn’t arrived there. Housing is still cheaper in the city than in the suburbs, and although suburban poverty is growing alarmingly fast, it’s nowhere near the levels seen in the city. There are multiple […]

Apple Transportation Program Stuck in the Past

By Tom Fairchild | Apr 9, 2014 | 24 Comments

Tom Fairchild is the director of Mobility Lab. This article was originally published by METRO Magazine. As an avid iPhone user, I have bought into the sense that Apple could literally peer into the future and deliver me technology that I never realized I would so desperately need. For years, Steve Jobs and company seem to have been our […]

How to “Build a Better Burb”: Advice From Author June Williamson

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 24, 2013 | 3 Comments

The suburbs are changing. As cities grow in population and the poverty once associated with urban areas becomes more widely dispersed, even the meaning of “the suburbs” is evolving in the popular consciousness. Architect June Williamson has studied suburban evolution and adaptation for more than a decade now. She was co-author, with Ellen Dunham-Jones, of […]

Suburbs Take Center Stage Among Bicycle Friendly Communities

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 17, 2013 | 1 Comment

Where are the newest Bicycle Friendly Communities? Many of them are in the ‘burbs. As we mentioned a few days ago, more suburban-style communities received the League of American Bicyclists’ BFC honor this week. That’s a shift from previous years. “The national boom in biking has officially found a pedal-hold in a previously unlikely place: the […]

Arlington Strikes Walking Gold in a River of Highways and Pentagon Sprawl

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 9, 2013 | 7 Comments

Urbanists have long told tales of the success story of Arlington, Virginia. Named a gold-level walk-friendly community by the Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center, this Washington, DC suburb made the smart decision in the 70s to develop along the metrorail line. Because of that, Arlington workers drive alone at a rate 25 percent lower than […]

Stop Fretting About Whether Millennials Will Stay in the City

By Tanya Snyder | Aug 28, 2013 | No Comments

More than 9,000 babies have been born in each of the last five years in Washington, DC — but will their families stay in the city as these kids grow up? A recent study by the real estate company Trulia found that there was just one zip code in DC’s city limits where backpacks outnumbered […]

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