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The kids are alright*
Every generation bitches about those kids today, but I think the ones we’ve got now deserve a bit of credit for smarts: The share of new cars purchased by those aged 18-34 dropped 30% in the last five years, according to the car shopping web site Edmunds.com. Some say the economy is mostly to blame […]
Bus stops and the people who use them
June 21, 2012
In a post that touched on two of my favorite subjects – transit and design – Kaid Benfield asked yesterday, what if bus stops were designed as if bus stops really mattered? It’s a good question. There are entire books devoted to railway station design. Countless millions of dollars go into any airport redesign. But […]
And no, we won’t be calling it the Matlock Pier either …
June 11, 2012
The problem with public participation in the planning process is that it’s so … democratic. Or at least, that’s what I would have been thinking if I’d been an architect in St. Petersburg last week, when the city held a public meeting to discuss the future of The Pier, which has been a St. Pete […]
New map: Race and sprawl, Detroit edition*
May 24, 2012
*Potentially the first in a series of posts mapping race and sprawl in American cities A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a piece about Detroit and how I found it to be ironic that the very thing that built the city in the first place – the car – is now slowly choking the […]
Better living through futility
March 31, 2012
When I was in San Francisco the other week, I was walking along Haight Street when I happened to see a sign taped to the inside of a second-story window. It said simply “Sidewalks are for People!” with a URL printed underneath. Being so bike-centric in my outlook, I just assumed it was about keeping […]
Poor people don’t take the Express
March 17, 2012
Nobody rides the bus. I hear that a lot from people – especially suburban and exurban residents, and usually from Hillsborough County – arguing that investing in transit is a waste of public resources. In a nutshell, their argument is that the lack of demand for (much less expensive) bus transit is evidence that there’s […]
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September 18, 2012
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