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The building wears Prada: Fifth Avenue designers raise the bar on sidewalk sheds
New York City fashion houses are getting creative with scaffolding.
LA Metro is paying Angelenos up to $600 to leave their car at home
Metro will pay around 2,000 households to participate in a program designed to shift travel modes away from private car trips to transit, biking, walking and shared mobility.
Historic Queens park is getting a $120M upgrade
The borough's largest park will undergo significant upgrades for accessibility, flood mitigation and historic preservation.
Berkeley promised to build supportive housing in People's Park. Where is it?
More than two years after People's Park was cordoned off, there is no word on a timeline for a promised affordable housing project.
750 Pittsburgh city workers to get free transit passes
City employees working downtown will have access to free transit from Pittsburgh Regional Transit.
MTA plans to outfit all buses with stroller storage by next year
All buses will have seats that flip up to allow for stroller storage or more standing room.
Speeding surges after Ontario cities remove traffic cameras
The province ordered cities to remove the devices despite data that shows they save lives.
FEATURE
15 US cities and their global namesakes
Hundreds of cities around the United States are named after other places. We tour a few of them.
Hawaii DOT takes action after reporters call attention to dangerous crosswalk
The state made changes to a treacherous intersection after reporting revealed that traffic light timing was posting a threat to pedestrians.
Just 17% of San Diego households can afford the city's $1M+ median home prices
The city is becoming increasingly unaffordable to prospective homebuyers.
Oklahoma City bets on transit
The city's mayor is urging residents to support a new sales tax that would fund transit expansion in the growing city.
Kentucky town targets housing crisis with modular homes on city lots
Covington is using modular housing to speed up construction and city-owned lots to lower the cost of real estate for affordable housing.
Court unfreezes $20B in federal climate grants
A U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that the Trump administration potentially violated the Inflation Reduction Act by attempting to claw back grants awarded under the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund program.
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Congestion Costing Reality Check, Part 2: A congestion costing critique
There are good reasons to be skeptical of highway industry claims that traffic congestion is a growing problem. Their analysis is often incomplete and biased. Let’s pull back the curtain on some major congestion cost studies.
Arizona prepares to tap into emergency water supply as it braces for Colorado River cuts
The Salt River Project has been collecting nearly 4 million acre-feet of water since the mid-1990s.
Philadelphia lawmakers fight to save 'Chinatown Stitch' from Trump cuts
The freeway cap project, approved and funded under the Biden administration, is now in jeopardy after the federal government rescinded all but $8 million in funding.
Florida wants to shift its entire EV charger budget to air taxi 'vertiports'
FDOT argues the private sector is already building out the state's fast-charging infrastructure, so the state could redirect those funds elsewhere.
DC energy efficiency rule requires buildings to upgrade their infrastructure or face millions in fines
Building owners and condo co-op members say the upgrades are often prohibitively expensive.
Trump administration is withholding over $7B in transit grants
Congress allocated $7.7 billion to the Capital Investment Grants program. The Federal Transit Administration has yet to sign a single agreement.
80% of California homes built between 2020-2022 are in high fire risk areas
In 2020, California wildfires destroyed nearly a fifth of homes they came in contact with.
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The Architects Foundation
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The Urban Renewal Agency of the City of Pocatello
FREE Course: Walkable City 1: Why Walkability?
After describing his path towards focusing on walkability as the essence of good planning, Jeff Speck marches through his five principal reasons for making more walkable places.
Reinventing Malls: Planning Alchemy—Turning Gray Fields Into Gold
The course focuses on the opportunities and imperatives that shape reinvention of mall sites.
