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Parking Reform Has Big Implications for Sustainable Transit — and for Ride-Hailing, Too
Cities have traditionally eliminated parking requirements to encourage walking, bicycling, and transit. But it can also aid the rise of on-demand car services, two top parking policy experts say.
June 15, 2017
10 Urban Freeways That Need to Come Down
There are excellent candidates for freeway removal in many American cities, where roads built 50 or 60 years ago are nearing the end of their useful lives. Cities that take the plunge and get rid of their urban highways don't regret it.
January 30, 2017
Freeways Without Futures: I-345 in Dallas
In this Streetfilm, Patrick Kennedy, founder of A New Dallas, talks about the movement to replace Interstate 345 in downtown Dallas with connected streets and walkable development. Shot at the "Freeways Without Futures" session at the Congress for New Urbanism's recent conference in Dallas, the piece provides views of I-345 from heights most people never get to see.
May 5, 2015
Rumor Mill: Safety Overhaul in the Works for the “Boulevard of Death”
Word on the street is that Queens Boulevard could be the first major arterial redesign initiated by Polly Trottenberg's DOT.
October 6, 2014
Sprawl Madness: Two Houses Share Backyard, Separated by 7 Miles of Roads
Just how absurd have American development patterns become over the past few decades?
February 28, 2013
In Philly, Housing in Walkable Places Held Up Better Than Suburban Housing
It's been a bad few years for homeowners around the country, and those in greater Philadelphia are no different. But people who owned houses in Philadelphia's center city or suburban areas near a walkable town center fared better than others.
November 9, 2012
Federal Housing Administration Clears Way for More Walkable Development
Over the last five years America has seen an historic housing downturn, but the prevailing trend hasn't sapped demand for walkable, urban development, especially in many larger metros.
October 15, 2012
12 Freeways to Watch (‘Cause They Might Be Gone Soon)
If you make your home on the Louisiana coastline, upstate New York or the mountains of the Pacific Northwest, chances are you live near a highway that really has it coming. It's big. It's ugly. It goes right through city neighborhoods. And it just might be coming down soon.
February 6, 2012
New Urbanists Release Principles for Sustainable Street Networks
At the Transportation Research Board's 91st annual meeting here in DC, it's hard to miss the booth handing out copies of a bright blue pamphlet filled with illustrations of busy tree-lined streets, where bicyclists and buses work their way through a bustling urban bazaar. The booth is the Congress for New Urbanism’s “occupation” of TRB, and the pamphlet is their new illustrated Sustainable Street Network Principles, a document aimed at explaining in very basic terms what's wrong with America's streets -- and how to fix them.
January 26, 2012
Moving Beyond the Automobile: Highway Removal
In this week's episode of "Moving Beyond the Automobile," Streetfilms takes you on a guided tour of past, present and future highway removal projects with John Norquist of the Congress for the New Urbanism.
March 29, 2011