What We're Reading

What We’re Reading: Stop Sprawl, Mass Timber, and De-Stroadification

Stop sprawl: A city in Ontario turned down a massive urban growth boundary expansion and instead favored urban infill. IBR persists: A key vote in...

What We’re Reading: Park It, Walk It, Bike It, Transit

Park it: The happiest commutes are active commutes, and the car loses the longer the commute while other modes barely budge over time. But surprise! Those...

What We’re Reading: Going Dutch

Annexation: Seattle looks toward annexing White Center and now has an incentive to do so ($). Going Dutch: Norway wants to greatly expand bike infrastructure with...
A block in the city center of Ashland, Oregon.

What We’re Reading: AFFH Rule Row, Over-Parked, and Ban SUVs

Open top buses: In London, a tour bus company wants to use open top buses for commuters. AFFH Rule row: The occupant of the White...

What We’re Reading: Falling Rents, Packing Up, and Short-Lived

Falling rents: Rents in Seattle fell last year, but don't expect that to continue. PTC: In the United States House of Representatives, Democrats introduced a...
A photo of a street with condo towers of different heights.

What We’re Reading: Zoning For Housing, Surrey Beats Vancouver, and Safer Cars

Zoning for housing: Bend rezoned single-family areas and has seen a sharp increase in housing production. Choice remains: In Alaska, the state supreme court has...

What We’re Reading: Inequitable Access, Signless, And Revised Design Guidelines

Spruce it up: In Portland, local artists have memorialized David Bowie and Prince on bike lanes. Pretty square: The most rectangular shaped countries in the...

What We’re Reading: Cafe Streets, Still Struggling, and Naming Rights

Bus project scope creep: Despite bigger plans for bus priority on North Lake Shore Drive in Chicago, officials have thrown up their hands for...