City Planning
How to Build a Better Sustainable Transportation Pilot
Pop-up projects and trial runs can build support for new street safety ideas and new alternatives to driving — or they can turn the public against a project before it even gets off the ground. A new study outlined how to avoid the most common pilot pitfalls.
April 15, 2025
Could ChatGPT Make America More Walkable?
No, generative AI shouldn't plan a whole city — but a new study argues it could help identify gaps in our sidewalk networks, tree canopies, and more.
December 4, 2024
Talking Headways Podcast: The Real Work of Safe Streets
Oakland City Council candidate Warren Logan on how people perceive government works, and the need for more flexible housing and streets policies.
August 29, 2024
Sustainable Transportation Advocates Need to Talk About Sustainable Urban Design
A new book hopes to act as a "magic decoder ring" to our built environment — and a powerful tool to understand how sustainable transportation networks can fit within them.
July 15, 2024
Talking Headways Podcast: An Update to Human Transit
Jarrett Walker on the release of the revised edition of his influential book Human Transit.
May 16, 2024
Measure HLA Is Now Officially Law for L.A. City
Check the city maps to find what bus, bike, and walk improvements are coming to streets in your neighborhood.
April 11, 2024
Why Your City Needs a Walkability Study
Two urbanism rockstars are joining forces to bring a game-changing analysis to more cities — and spilling some trade secrets about low-cost design strategies that get people moving.
February 20, 2024
L.A. Transit, Walk, and Bike Advocates Still Have Unfinished Business From 2023
Stuff that didn't happen yet: Metro was going to install safe connections to stations and build BRT and bikeways, L.A. was going to end road widening and improve street safety.
January 3, 2024
In 2023, NYC’s Ambitious ‘Streets Master Plan’ Was Just Pretty Paper And Maps
Mayor Adams again failed spectacularly to meet a legal mandate to construct 50 miles of protected bike lanes and 30 miles of protected bus lanes. What happens now? Nothing. And therein lies the problem.
January 2, 2024
Talking Headways Podcast: Finding Resources to Do Big Things
We discuss how cities create budgets that reflect their policy goals and what it takes to find resources for big ideas with Chris Fabian of Resource X.
October 19, 2023
