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Job sprawl — picture suburban office parks with lots of parking — might be past its peak. The last few years have been good ones for central cities, as far as job growth is concerned, and not so hot for mid-height, reflective glass office campuses. That’s according to an analysis by researcher Joe Cortright at City Observatory. […]

Can cities that won highway fights two generations ago still defeat destructive road projects today? Marc Lefkowitz at Green City Blue Lake is looking back at Cleveland’s history of highway revolts. In the late 1960s, the city successfully beat back a proposal — the “East Side Highway” — that would have obliterated neighborhoods. Now, all these decades later, […]

The family of a young woman who was killed trying to cross a Portland road is suing the city for not properly maintaining the crosswalk where she was struck by a driver. Lindsay Leonard and her roommate Jessica Finlay, both 23, were both killed when they were struck by Tito Feliciano while trying to cross S.E. Foster […]

Few things evoke carmaggedon hysteria quite like the construction of a tall residential building. As Austin has seen more growth, some have seized on the relatively few high-density housing developments as a source of the region’s traffic problem. But housing density is not the cause of traffic congestion, says Carrie Gammell at Car Free Austin: It seems […]

In a case that has attracted the attention of the Union of Concerned Scientists, well-known and outspoken civil engineer Chuck Marohn of Strong Towns recently had his professional license challenged by a fellow engineer. The charges were quickly dismissed by the Minnesota licensing board, but the incident has raised questions about engineers’ freedom to speak openly […]

Charles Marohn at Strong Towns has been giving some thought to what’s ailing the Minnesota Department of Transportation. And he traces the agency’s biggest problems back to its core assumptions. The agency sees its mission as increasing people’s mobility — which it defines, more more or less, as “how far they can travel in a given period of […]