By Philip Kiefer, Grist
All across the country, activists in liberal cities are pushing for zoning reform to allow for more density. Many American cities are booming — Seattle’s population is up 20 percent since 2010 — and to accommodate that growth, they can either build up or out.
By Rachel Quednau, Strong Towns
What is the value of a street where people can walk safely? Why build streets that are constructed with the needs of people in mind, not just the needs of cars?
By Nate Starring, Project for Public Spaces
In 2007, a year after Jacobs died, some of her close friends in Toronto took a crack at creating a fitting homage—a living, breathing, walking, talking memorial called Jane’s Walk.
By Jay Walljasper, Resilience.org
Walking good for health, community and economy.
By Jay Walljasper, Project for Public Spaces
Numerous medical leaders have also shown that Placemaking can play a huge role in promoting better health for all Americans.
By Jay Walljasper, Resilience.org
Albert Lea, Minnesota shows how walking and other healthy habits can rejuvenate a rural community.
By Jay Walljasper, Resilience.org
Suburban life has always been synonymous with long hours in the car-- going to work, school, the grocery store, the mall, soccer practice and friends’ homes. Some people even drive to take a walk.
By Clarence Eckerson, Jr, StreetFilms
Buenos Aires is fast becoming one of the most admired cities in the world when it comes to reinventing streets and transportation.
By Clarence Eckerson, Jr, StreetFilms
For too long cities tried to make parking a core feature of the urban fabric, only to discover that yielding to parking demand tears that fabric apart.
By Andrew Price, Strong Towns
"Why on earth would we go back in time 70 years to model our current cities on?" Because it worked.
By Clarence Eckerson, Jr, StreetFilms
There's nothing more dramatic than looking back five or ten years at Streetfilms footage (some of it a bit low-res) to see how much the livable streets landscape of New York City's streets have changed.
By Jeff Speck, TED
How do we solve the problem of the suburbs? Urbanist Jeff Speck shows how we can free ourselves from dependence on the car -- which he calls "a gas-belching, time-wasting, life-threatening prosthetic device" -- by making our cities more walkable and more pleasant for more people.