"It is difficult to count the number of cities that have been extensively damaged by kowtowing to the demands of the automobile. So many come to mind - Detroit, Hartford, Des Moines, Kansas City, Syracuse, Tampa - that it has to be considered the standard American urban condition." Andres Duany et al., "Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream."....

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It has been a tough fiscal year, but the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority ought to think hard about selling a railroad right-of-way it purchased 21 years ago. Putting the land back on the tax rolls could be a community gain-but it could also make future commuter rail expansion far more complex and costly than it needs to be.....

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Regional transportation leaders have assembled a package of projects worth about $93 million to submit for a very small slice of stimulus money......
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When we moved the Post Carbon Cities office to downtown Portland I was thrilled to get a bird's-eye view of the downtown streetcar, the first new streetcar line built in the US since World War II. This morning I got a new history-making treat out my window: four wind turbines mounted yesterday on a new high-rise, among the first such urban wind projects in the country....
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On Aug. 3, the Rainier Valley Community Development Fund (RVCDF) announced the release of a report detailing the success of the Supplemental Mitigation Assistance (SMA) program...
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Back in the late 1970s, when Washington's Metrorail system first began operating in Arlington County, Virginia, the future of Arlington and other old, inner suburbs was far from certain. Across the Potomac, the District of Columbia was suffering from depopulation, rapidly rising crime rates, and serious fiscal difficulties.....
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What would San Jose look like if gleaming high-rises suddenly sprouted all across the city?  A proposal that would place three 15-story towers, plus traditional townhouses and storefronts, on San Carlos Street just west of downtown could provide some early answers.....
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It's a Wednesday morning in San Francisco's newest neighborhood.
As construction workers raise steel into place on emerging high-rises, a man blasts a serve on the beach volleyball court under the Interstate 280 overpass.......
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