Much has already been penned about the competing interests of Washington's urbanist groups. Specifically, about the Committee of 100, with its preservationist bent, vs. the blogosphere and its smart-growth bent, led by Greater Greater Washington...   Read On

"First of all, I always like to say, when I look at Europe, we're more like the European Union in our role at the F.R.A. than we are like Spain or France, which are much more like our states - they have independent governance structures, they have independent decision-making."   Read On

If you want to be able to walk to work, several transit-oriented development projects in the works in Boulder County are just the ticket.  It's a matter of finding the money to pay for the development in most cases, according to city officials from Boulder and Louisville and an attorney and a developer involved in the "Transit-Oriented Development" panel at the Boulder Valley Real Estate Conference & Forecast Thursday afternoon...
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This post has been sitting in my draft file for a while, but over the summer the European Union put out a study on perceptions of quality of life in European cities that was interesting. The study involved surveying people in 75 cities across Europe (including a few in non-EU countries like Turkey) and asking them what they thought about various aspects of life in their city....
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Monday's Times highlights Bellevue's plans for the Bel-Red corridor and how it's threatened by budget problems:  "An ambitious plan to turn Bellevue's Bel-Red neighborhood into a bustling, urban center with a downtown Kirkland-style heart has run into an obstacle - a $100 million shortfall in the city's capital budget."....   Read On

"We may be doing something smaller in the short term, but we're going to do the big thing long-term, and make it bigger."
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The Bloomberg administration is weighing a plan to extend the no. 7 subway line under the Hudson River to Secaucus, N.J., a move city officials are billing as a way to help commuters on the already-crowded NJ Transit trains to Manhattan...   Read On

When James Aiello Sr. first pitched his idea for building apartments and shops atop the Port Authority's Castle Shannon light rail park-and-ride, the dot-com boom was in full swing, and the real-estate bust was nearly a decade away...
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