This week I’m joined by Meea Kang , Rail~volution board member and founding partner of Domus Development. I caught up with Meea at the Rail~...

Many American cities are experiencing a shortage of affordable housing. It’s a big problem that needs to be addressed, but there’s little co...

Living in the bay area can be particularly maddening. Even if you're working hard and making a good living, you are likely to still not...

Hartford has been brutalized by parking . The loss of tax base to the virus of surface parking is staggering. ~~~ Can you reduce GHGs and s...

Congratulations to my colleagues and friends at the Center for Neighborhood Technology. They have won the prestigious MacArthur award for ...

When you have access to transit, you use it. I'm looking at maps and doing GIS analysis on American Cities for most of my day. So I...

In a recent report, my day job with the National Housing Trust looked at the number of expiring section 8 and 202 units near fixed guideway...

What a novel concept ! I wonder if it would lower my costs. I already get a discount for driving low miles but it would give an even greater...

In case you missed it, this PBS show NOW talks about the tough times people are having living far from their jobs. My coworker Gloria is i...

Between all of this mortgage meltdown/bank failure discussions is a discussion of city competitiveness. Recent blog posts have focused on C...

Taking transit that is... Jeanne Whitworth, wearing a dark blue jacket and skirt, settles into a Sprinter car at the Oceanside Transit Cent...

CEO for Cities made a nifty little movie showing the difference between two neighborhoods in Chicago and why people spend so much on transp...

Example 1: Charlotte We talked with several riders who say gas prices and convenience have prompted them to give light rail a try, opting ...

The affordability index is a different way to look at housing affordability. Since housing has been going down the tubes lately, its not ...

We know that cars cost a lot of money. Aside from the up front capital cost, operations cost people at least $8,000 per year. But ever si...

On the other side of the coin from the suburban subsidization is the money that can be saved by transit, whether its rail or an express bus....

In every city in America right now there is a fight between a community and a developer. It's happening in Austin as M1ek and AC are ...

The bubble is popping and the pundits are going nuts about it. On Wall Street folks like Jim Cramer are going crazy with the lending indust...

An odd thing happened to me today. I installed Quicken and downloaded my bank data onto my new computer since my hard drive crashed a few m...

Bus Chick has found an article that talks about what American's seem to do best...spend money and burn oil. None of my friends seem t...