This week on Talking Headways I talk with Chuck Wolfe about his new book, Seeing the Better City. Chuck shares how he makes urban diaries w...

The guest this episode is Alexander Garvin, author of the recently released book What Makes a Great City. We chat about why people are an i...

This week we’re joined by Kristen Jeffers, communications and membership manager for Bike Walk KC and author of The Black Urbanist blog.

This week we're joined by Mike Lydon who chats with me about Tactical Urbanism and Pattern Cities. It's a fun conversation with some...

This week on the podcast, Branden Klayko of Broken Sidewalk comes on the blog to talk about Louisville Kentucky.  Learn about this history o...

There has been a lot of chatter recently on the issue of fast vs slow transit.  This week is the perfect time for this discussion as two maj...

There's been a lot of bashing of Silicon Valley lately.  It's the butt of transit jokes because of its light rail line which is one...

As many of you know I tweet as @theoverheadwire. Same planning stuff with a bit of personal mish mash. It's interesting to see how we ...

A few photos from my recent trip to NYC: It's so busy, nobody ever goes there anymore... Don't forget in the daytime Apartments for ...

Recently Joel Kotkin wrote an article that accused everyone who likes rail transit's ability to shape communities of being part of the ...

There was an interesting Talk of the Nation episode on NPR about a month ago that discusses how Women as consumers are becoming a greater f...

The last few years have seen many ideas tossed around for a streetcar line up Broadway in Oakland. I like the idea personally because it wo...

So sad to see that Elana Schor is moving on from Streetsblog . You can still follow her work but it's not likely to be all transportati...

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...

In my post below I talked about how hard it would be to connect the two parcels over the freeway. Looks like they have thought about that. ...

I've been meaning to weigh in on the debate ( 1 , 2 , 3 and others ) from a while ago on zoning restrictions that cause sprawl and the...

I love Pearls Before Swine. This one stuck my fancy as a planner.

More! That's the scream of merchants and others who believe that a downtown without an endless sea of parking is not worth going to. B...

I always like posting songs related to urbanism or city life. Here's one from the UK.