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They say “what you measure is what you get,” and for the first time, the North Central Texas Council of Governments is measuring walking and biking activity in the Dallas region, reports Brandon Formby at the Dallas Morning News’ Transportation Blog. It’s an important precedent for an agency that historically has concerned itself with the movement of cars. Planners […]

Impermeable surfaces like parking lots are terrible for the environment in several ways, including the water pollution that results when stormwater runoff causes sewer systems to overflow. In Ohio, the state’s highest court recently upheld a fee on parking lots to help mitigate the damage to water quality. Greater Cleveland, like a lot of older […]

Every once in a while you have to step back and gape at the sheer scale of the highway interchanges America has built smack in the middle of our cities. Branden Klayko at Broken Sidewalk is taking a moment to do just that with Louisville’s Spaghetti Junction, between downtown and the waterfront. This giant interchange is being expanded as […]

This video from the Minneapolis-based satirical site Wedge LIVE sends up the not-in-my-backyard resistance to infill development that could help alleviate the shortage of affordable housing affecting a growing number of American cities. Anton Schieffer at Streets.mn says the neighborhood where the much-feared 10-unit rental building would be built makes perfect sense as an area […]

Every so often someone (usually Joel Kotkin) tries to make the case that the rapid growth of Houston, as opposed to say, Chicago, is evidence that Americans love sprawl. There’s no question that Americans are moving to the Houston region in incredible numbers. But there are parts of Houston that are compact and walkable. And […]

Governors of the states surrounding the Great Lakes are considering a water policy case with big implications for land development throughout the Midwest. Waukesha, Wisconsin, a sprawling suburban area outside Milwaukee, has exhausted its water resources. Rather than cooperate with the city of Milwaukee to secure water, Waukesha spent years preparing an application to divert […]