The letter was released a bit late for the election, but I think it says what we all like to hear. Now its that implementation thing that&...

I know we've discussed this before, but we need to change the way we talk about livable communities and mobility. Today's version ...

In an article in the Wall Street Journal (Via City Fix ), it seems as if Americans control their Carbon Destiny. U.S. consumers have direct...

h/t Treehugger

This is cool. I like how they call the life he lives the American Dream as well. Dempster, 31, is nearly halfway through the four-block wa...

For those who watch the numbers, it should be no surprise that San Francisco's Sunday Streets would be a success for merchants at Fisher...

Augusta is looking at streetcars. One of the points that Streetcar Salesman Charlie Hales talks about in this article that I don't see...

This is something we already knew, but it blows back in the face of all those folks who say cities in the United States don't have the d...

If you haven't read Tom Wolfe's A Man in Full , I highly recommend it. It was a great story with the real estate markets of San Fra...

On the plane I had a chance to read The Option of Urbanism by Chris Leinberger who is a visiting fellow at Brookings and a professor at Mi...

Mr. Glaeser annoys me again . If you think about the lifestyle of ordinary Americans living on the fringe of Houston or Dallas, for example,...

The new walk score is out. I tend to agree with Richard that it needs a transit component. My score is a 91, but I also have a half bloc...

Is where I live. But that's close enough right? With the J just a half block away, the grocery store a half mile away and BART a half m...

There are a lot of problems with comparing costs across modes. You never know what is going to be included in the estimate and often times ...

The walkscore widget flew through the transit and planning blogosphere in about July of last year. There's even an evil twin called ...

Yglesias laments the weather wasted in Southern California. I would include Northern California and most of the Bay Area that is not serve...

There's not much that I agree with Sam Staley on, but i thought this post on Planetizen captured some of what I was thinking when I wa...

I was out walking around the city a few days ago with my family and noticed that my sister and her husband loved the fact that we could walk...