We've known for decades the better ways to do things, for greater urban health, sustainability, resiliency, vibrancy and economic success. So this year, let's resolve to have the will and skill to get past the short-term politics, the rhetoric, the market momentum, and the financial self-interest that has kept our better solutions from being realized. Opinion
Dec 31, 2012 By Brent Toderian
From guerrilla wayfinding to future-tising, these are my top five, perhaps lesser known, highlights of a banner year for Tactical Urbanism. Opinion
Dec 30, 2012 By Mike Lydon
Despite the extreme weather events of the past year, most Americans are still not persuaded that climate change is primarily the result of human activity. Why not? Opinion
Dec 9, 2012 By Michael Lewyn
The emerging methods of urban governance, planning, design, and management made possible by technological advances in data collection, analysis, and communication promise to make our cities better, and more efficient, places to live. The Urban Systems Collaborative, a unique gathering of voices from academia and industry, is fostering a discussion about improving our cities through technology. Opinion
Dec 7, 2012 By Peter Carter
Green building has become a fundamental element of many states Qualified Allocation Plans (QAPs), which guide the distribution of the Federal Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program. Opinion
Dec 6, 2012 By Walker Wells
One of planners’ most important jobs is to help develop the indicators and frameworks use to define problems and evaluate potential solution. Often, a particular solution will seem cost effective and beneficial when evaluated one way, and wasteful and undesirable if evaluated another. It is important that we help develop comprehensive evaluation frameworks that effectively inform decisions. Opinion
Nov 27, 2012 By Todd Litman
Course explores how the increasing availability of networks, sensors and mobile technologies allows for new approaches to address the challenges that our cities face. Opinion
Nov 22, 2012 By Jennifer Evans-Cowley
Even in cities without world-class transit systems, transit can reduce car ownership to some extent. Opinion
Nov 18, 2012 By Michael Lewyn
Bottom-up urbanism, now becoming increasingly popular in the academy under the rubrics of “do-it-yourself (DIY) urbanism”; “guerilla urbanism”; “tactical urbanism” etc., are the surest sparks of brilliance and hope for our urban future. Opinion
Nov 16, 2012 By Vinayak Bharne
Greetings
from Manila where I'm attending the Asian Development Bank's Transport Forum 2012.
It is an exciting and important event: the types of transport planning
investments that the bank supports now can have huge impacts on the nature of
future development in the world’s fastest growing countries. This is an
opportunity to support truly sustainable development.
Opinion
Nov 7, 2012 By Todd Litman
