Livable Streets
Talking Headways Podcast: The Built Environment Memory Hole
This week we’re joined by Tufts Professor Justin Hollander. Hollander chats with us about a range of topics, including VMT Taxes, using eye-tracking software to measure the effects of the built environment on people’s minds, and the most recent census release.
September 9, 2021
Please Stay On The Grass: More Absorbent Streets Could Mean Less Catastrophically Flooded Subways
September 3, 2021
TACTICAL URBANISM: Let’s Make More Plazas
Want to turn underused street space into people space? A cool video shows you the ropes.
May 28, 2021
A Fairer, Safer City? Here’s the Agenda from Top Transportation Advocacy Groups
December 8, 2020
Manifesto Promotes ‘Ethics, Equity, and Empathy’
A design firm publishes a new 'credo' for engineers, policymakers, and planners.
September 20, 2019
City Officials Seek To Mold the Future of Driverless Cars
Using autonomous vehicles as a chance to shape streets for people.
September 10, 2019
Shared Motor-Scooters Coming to D.C.
The District Department of Transportation is launching a four-month pilot program to invite shared motor-scooters to zip through the city, officials announced last week.
August 6, 2019
Vancouver Builds a Better Bike Lane
The Pacific Rim city is trying to be an Amsterdam of the Americas. Here's how it's leading.
June 10, 2019
Transportation Leaders Demand Safer Crossings
More and more roads have protected bike lanes — but intersections are where the rubber (and sometimes pedestrians and cyclists) hits the road.
May 21, 2019
How To Fix A Fork (In The Road)
Streets that fork at non-right angles create complicated intersections with dangerous sight lines and signals with too many phases. Here's an innovative fix.
February 1, 2019
