#ForewordFriday: Better Together Edition
By Meghan Bartels / On June 6th, 2014
planning
#ForewordFriday: The Joy of Cycling Edition
By Meghan Bartels / On May 16th, 2014
#ForewordFriday: Multifamily Livability Edition
By Meghan Bartels / On April 25th, 2014
On Interning at Island Press: Wednesday Meetings
By Meghan Bartels / On April 10th, 2014
In this installment, Editorial Intern Alex Manasseri talks about her new favorite extracurricular activity.
Life in a Suburb – Take a Second Look
By [node:field_contributor] / On March 21st, 2014
Cross-posted from the Gehl Architects blog, Cities for People
#Foreword Friday: How to Green your City Edition
By Admin / On November 15th, 2013
This week's selection comes from The Guide to Greening Cities. Rich in tools, insights, and tricks of the trade, The Guide to Greening Cities helps professionals, policymakers, community leaders, and students understand which approaches have worked and why and demonstrates multidisciplinary solutions for creating healthy, just, and green communities.
Sustainable Streets are Safe Streets
By Barbara McCann / On November 11th, 2013
Sustainability is often approached as a technical challenge, something we “should” do, for the good of the planet and for the good of the next generation.
But a push toward a more environmentally responsible future will not happen unless we care deeply. Such an emotional connection comes naturally only when an activity sustains us, right now.
Complete Streets: Changing Design AND Decisions around the Nation
By Barbara McCann / On October 28th, 2013
The stories of success keep rolling in. Portland Maine turned summer maintenance projects into Complete Streets improvement opportunities. Detroit’s Woodward Avenue will be redesigned as a major transit corridor, while Lansing has received the state’s first counterflow bicycle lane, courtesy of MIDOT. And Helena, Montana is requiring sidewalks in new subdivisions.
#Foreword Friday: Big City Edition
By Jason Leppig / On October 11th, 2013
This week, join New York City's Chief Urban Designer, Alexandros Washburn, as he rides out Hurricane Sandy from his apartment in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
Contrasting Two Models of How Places Survive
By Charles R. Wolfe / On October 11th, 2013
Two September experiences reminded me of the strength and fragility of urban places, and the inherent ironies of surviving town forms. One such experience was here, at home, while preparing for a keynote address in New Hampshire scheduled for later this month. The other was on the road in southern France.