When one mentions that they went on vacation to Myrtle Beach, SC, visions of complete streets and urban design do not spring to mind. For years, I remember friends who's parents took them to Myrtle Beach on summer vacation. I had never attended until recently, when my wife proposed that we take a summer trip there... Read On 

This paper examines the incidence of innovation and the configuration of innovation systems in rural areas, which are viewed as possessing weak knowledge-generating subsystems... Read On 

Cittaslow is an international nonprofit membership organization and movement employed by small cities to preserve the identity of their cultures. Born out of the "Slow Food" movement, Cittaslow promotes similar values of improving quality of life by slowing down the pace of life... Read On 

Gas prices in the U.S. continue to escalate and could hit $4.25 by Memorial Day, according to some projections. These spikes tend to hit smaller communities and rural areas particularly hard, as residents and businesses must travel farther and use more energy during daily activities... Read On 

With adoptions in more than 200 localities and 23 states, complete streets policies have nearly doubled in number every year over the last three, according to a new report by the National Complete Streets Coalition... Read On 

Livability programs seek to make communities better places to live for both current and future generations by influencing the structure and uses of the land and built environment, including the transportation infrastructure ... Read On 

What is the difference between a city and a suburb, anyway? It's an important question because so many times, the debate about the allocation of resources in our country is framed this way, as if there were some kind of obvious dichotomy between suburbs and cities, some bright line that separates them... Read On 

The Statesman has a long article today about the changing demographics of central East Austin, the neighborhoods across Lady Bird Lake from 78741. Although Austin as a whole saw a sharp rise in its percentage of Hispanics and a relative decline in its percentage of whites, those trends were reversed in Central East Austin... Read On