What We’re Reading: 1990 Levels, Linear City, and Covid Crisis
1990 levels: A report claims that carbon emissions have plummeted below 1990 levels due to the pandemic. Still, people driving are the top polluters.
Highway...
What We’re Reading: Fireworks
Development in Seattle: The city council is putting the breaks on the Stadium District planning effort, largely because they have no direction on the matter....
What We’re Reading: Parking Craters, RAISE, and No Loos
Parking craters: America just celebrated Black Friday, so how well were the seas of parking used?
Atlanta's segregationist enclave: A white enclave in Atlanta has...
What We’re Reading: Making Safer Streets
Differing opinions: Council district elections are in full swing in Seattle. This week, Debora Juarez and Sandy Brown went head-to-head with dueling proposals on...
What We’re Reading: Double-Decker, Parkless, and Busy Streets
HSR growth: China charts a course to double the length of the nation's high-speed rail network by 2035.
Change car culture: How investment in transit...
What We’re Reading: Highway to Hell
Highway to hell: Long Beach, CA plans to remove the first freeway in southern California. The freeway revolt in Los Angeles that you probably...
What We’re Reading: Rebranding SEPTA, Gentrification, and Liberating the City
Rebranding SEPTA: Philadelphia's transit agency has developed a new package of signage, maps, and wayfinding.
Overselling, under delivering: WSDOT is trying to vastly oversell a...
The Urbanist’s Year End Wrap Up: 2015
2015 was a big year for The Urbanist. We passed our 1,000 post mark, incorporated federally as a nonprofit organization, and jumped into the...