Infrastructure

MARTA Station

MARTA an Amenity for Office Developers in Atlanta—But Not by Choice

The amenity in highest demand for companies looking to develop office space in Atlanta might surprise people: it's access to public transit.

March 11, 2018 - Bisnow Atlanta

Federal Transit Administration

$500 Million in TIGER Grants Awarded

They say the pendulum swings, and the TIGER grant funding pendulum has swung away from public transit.

March 10, 2018 - U.S. Department Of Transportation

Times Square

Beacon / Bunker

Kris Graves photographs all 77 NYPD precincts from Tottenville to Edenwald, looking to these buildings—sometimes humble, sometimes imposing—for the face and footprint of law and order in the neighborhood.

March 10, 2018 - Urban Omnibus

Streetcar

Calls to Bring the Olympic Streetcar Back to Vancouver

Vancouver's mile-long street car was built for the Olympics and ran for only 60 days, but some of the city's residents want that service back.

March 9, 2018 - Next City

Vision Zero

Queens Boulevard Redesign Spreads the Love Around

Queens Boulevard from Roosevelt Avenue to 73rd Street got a new look in 2015, but the New York Department of Transportation is planning to take the street redesign even further.

March 9, 2018 - StreetsBlog NYC

Sprawl

Revisiting Subdivision Regulations

For many decades now, most communities in the United States have grown as a series of subdivisions, built on a tried and true formula. It might be time to change the math.

March 9, 2018 - Strong Towns

MARTA Bus

Georgia' First Bus Rapid Transit Route Wins Federal Funding

The Summerhill Bus Rapid Transit Project—on track to become the first bus rapid transit line in the state of Georgia—received a critical bath of funding from the federal government this week in the form of a $12.6 million TIGER grant.

March 9, 2018 - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Los Angeles Earthquake

Los Angeles Resiliency Strategy Looks Beyond 'The Big One'

Renewable energy, sea-level rise, and, of course, seismic safety are all part of the plan.

March 8, 2018 - Next City

Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao

Corrected: The Bell Tolls for the TIGER Grant Program

The Trump Administration signaled a desire to scrap a funding program that helped fund transit, pedestrian, and bike infrastructure. A new program likely focused on rural and toll roads could take its place.

March 7, 2018 - Streetsblog USA

El Paso

City as Border Zone

Architects Ersela Kripa and Stephen Mueller, founders of El Paso firm AGENCY, discuss the reality and rhetoric of the US–Mexico border.

March 7, 2018 - The Architectural League

Concrete Stormwater

Analysis: Trump's Infrastructure Plan Would Cost Municipalities Money

Adam Krantz, who leads the National Association of Clean Water Agencies, breaks down how the Trump Administration infrastructure plan would impact local water infrastructure.

March 7, 2018 - The Planning Report

Maokong Sky Gondola

Gondolas Proposed for Boston's Seaport District

Boston's Seaport District has grown rapidly, and traffic is an ongoing concern. Developers have proposed an interesting solution: aerial trams.

March 6, 2018 - The Boston Globe

Auto-oriented Suburbia

This Georgia Town of 20,000 Has its Own Tactical Urbanism Program

Tactical urbanism isn't just for big cities.

March 6, 2018 - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

New York New Jersey Transit

Trump Attempts to Deny Funding for Hudson River Rail Tunnel Project

President Trump is going out of his way to ensure that the Hudson River Tunnel and other projects in the Amtrak Gateway Program don't receive federal funding in the next omnibus spending bill Congress must approve by March 23 to avoid a shutdown.

March 5, 2018 - The Washington Post

Parking

Cities Must Manage Parking or Face Pollution and Inequity

Free easily-accessible parking rewards car ownership and pushes up the cost of housing, argue Rebecca Clements and Alan March.

March 4, 2018 - Foreground

Rail Trail rendering

Chamblee, Georgia Receives Funding to Fuel its Walkability Ambitions

A small grant with big meaning for the city of Chamblee.

March 2, 2018 - Curbed Atlanta

Golden Gate

Op-Ed: Let's Make Urban Design Inspiring Again

Allison Arieff finds fault with the nation's uninspired conversation on infrastructure. When urban design projects have more emotional appeal, she argues, they can unify rather than divide.

March 1, 2018 - The New York Times

1984 Olympics

Los Angeles Investing in a Transit-Oriented Olympics

Ahead of the 2028 Olympic Games, Los Angeles is rallying around infrastructure buildout and technological advancement.

March 1, 2018 - The Planning Report

Philadelphia Center City

Introducing Algorithmic Zoning

Can zoning be optimized with the help of machine learning algorithms to deliver the greatest possible good?

March 1, 2018 - TechCrunch

CPAC 2018

Trump's Infrastructure Plan Looks Dead on Arrival

Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) seems to think there's no way the Trump Infrastructure plan gets taken up by Congress before the November election.

February 28, 2018 - Bloomberg

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Planning for Universal Design

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New York City School Construction Authority

Building Inspector

Village of Glen Ellyn

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Central Transportation Planning Staff/Boston Region MPO

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