Last August I wrote More thoughts on the detrimental effects of large urban parking lots after hearing the news that a current surface level lot at Drayton and Charlton in downtown Savannah looks to become semi-permanent. I didn’t know at…
I’m a big advocate of streetcars, and I think an investment in an integrated network over the coming decades could fuel Savannah’s economy and culture for decades to come. The Washington Post has a great piece today — primarily a…
I’ve written on this subject before, and I plan to keep doing monthly updates when the U.S. Dept. of Transportation Federal Highway Administration releases data. From the info released today: Travel on all roads and streets changed by -0.9% (-2.1…
The statistic from my headline can be found here at the U.S. Census. There were 1.7 million single unit starts in 2005 Single family home construction is at an all time low in 2011 going all the way back to…
Philadelphia Inquirer architecture critic Inga Saffron takes an interesting look at suburban and exurban development — and the prospects for recovery in the wake of the housing bust.
I don’t know what my life is coming to. Friends sent me two lengthy and interesting pieces about parking today — and I read them both in their entirety. From Between the Lines in LA Mag, which focuses largely on…
Could Manhattan have ended up being laid out with something other than its simple grid, which gives the New York City borough its distinctiveness? The answer is yes. Until the Commissioners’ Plan of 1811 was implemented over a period of…
I’ve been posting regular updates about the decline in vehicle miles driven in the United States over the last few years. The most recent post is here. Obviously, much of the decline is related to the weak economy of the…
I follow a lot of monthly economic data that I don’t post here on the blog, but I’ve been paying regular attention to the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration estimates of total traffic volume. The prolonged decline in…
Earlier today, I blogged about the need to get citizens emotionally invested in places. (See: Peter Kageyama: “For the Love of Cities†and the small things that increase civic engagement.) Well take a look at this from The Fun Theory…
In my City Talk column today, I talk about how inordinately happy I was to be able to buy beer last Sunday — even though I didn’t actually buy beer and will hardly ever take advantage of the newly legalized…
[This post was originally made on June 27th, 2011, but I have comments about the widespread availability of downtown parking in my column today. You’ll find that parking patterns on weekdays during the month of December are very similar to…
The Cloud has been designed by MVRDV; it consists of two luxury residential towers in Seoul, South Korea with a spectacular layer of interconnections. And the proposed buildings have generated considerable controversy over the last day because images of the…
