Livability to Become Requirement in Federal Transportation Policy

Transit can have a broad impact on community livability, like this bus stop in Los Angeles, which catalyzed nearby development after simple improvements were made For years, large-scale transit projects submitted for funding in the United States have been evaluated primarily on cost and the amount of time they save commuters. While these criteria may [...]

Drake Garden Helps Chicagoans Get Their Hands Dirty

aa Since publishing The Great Neighborhood Book, we have continued to receive inspiring stories about how people are creating places in their communities. We plan to share these stories periodically on our blog. aa Volunteers get to work at Drake Garden. For over a decade, Drake Garden has been giving Chicago residents the opportunity to get their hands [...]

Toward a Robust and Accountable Transportation Planning Process

Gary Toth following up on his reflections on the USDOT webinar, Forum on Livability. As a career transportation geek, I found it particularly encouraging to hear talk about a new transportation planning process attached to performance measures which go beyond the overused and myopic focus solely on auto oriented benchmarks such as pavement quality, bridge inspections [...]

International Orange

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Mint Plaza, San Francisco

Architecture Clash

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SoMa, San Francisco

El paraguas

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Museo Nacional de Antropología

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Monolito de Chalchiutlicue

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