Archive for Urban Planning

June 2008

6/18: Carfree Cities Conference Kicks Off in Portland 4

6/12: City Planning Commission Approves 400-Car Garage for Hell's Kitchen 4

May 2008

5/30: Hell's Parking Lot 6

5/12: Historic Town Chooses to "Retain Its Charm" By Enabling Sprawl 22

April 2008

4/29: Sadik-Khan Introduces the New York City Model 13

4/28: DOT Rolls Out "Sustainable Streets" Plan 15

4/15: In the Heights: City Aims to Make 181st a Complete Street 16

March 2008

3/13: In Istanbul, a Burgeoning Livable Streets Movement 2

January 2008

1/24: "Carfree Cities" Conference Comes to Portland 1

1/22: Masdar: Arabic for Chutzpah? 54

1/15: Will the Tide Turn on City Parking Policy? 8

1/10: Times Square: Too Many People, or Just Too Many Cars? 14

1/08: Bronxites Pick Parking Over People 0

December 2007

12/10: Radiohead: A Rock Band With a Firm Grasp of Urban Planning 5

12/07: Replace Penn Station Rats' Warren With a Pedestrian Boulevard 5

12/04: Good Streets Include Streetcars 48

12/03: Ciclovía: A Moving Experience in Bogotá, Colombia 35

November 2007

11/29: Carrion Gets $30K Donation Following Yanks Walkway Deal 1

11/27: Eliminate the Parking Requirement 65

11/19: Alan Durning's "Year of Living Carlessly" and "Bicycle Neglect" 2

11/07: Jan Gehl: Gridlocked Streets Are "Not a Law of Nature" 8

October 2007

10/11: In Platinum City Even the Munchkins Ride Bikes 5

10/10: Kunstler: Parking Plans Are Based on "Faulty Assumptions" 22

10/03: Yankees' Subsidy Deal Gets Stranger and Stranger 10

September 2007

9/25: DOT Asks, and Gets an Earful from West Siders 3

9/21: Upper West Side Livable Streets Advocates: Mark Your Calendar 18

9/21: Making the Case for Compact Development 8

9/18: Seeing Myrtle Avenue With Fresh Eyes 6

9/13: Does New York Need a 'New Moses'? 24

9/13: A Gehl Dispatch From Down Under 2

9/13: World Cities Adding One Million People Every Week 2

9/12: DOT Launches Gehl Street Survey Project 12

9/07: Last Day for High Bridge Survey 6

9/04: Take the NYC Neighborhood Quality of Life Survey 0

August 2007

8/24: Transit-Oriented America, Part 5: Wrap-Up 1

8/22: Central Park 66th Street Transverse Is Unsafe 11

8/21: Speak Up for an Accessible Car-Free High Bridge 3

8/20: The Urban Transportation Report Card 7

8/17: For Your Weekend Viewing Pleasure: Portland! 11

8/07: Hello, Dolly! 45

8/06: New Blog Focuses on Tearing Down the "Highway to Nowhere" 7

July 2007

7/27: Bike Parking on Steroids 23

7/19: Aparkalypse Now in San Francisco 3

June 2007

6/29: "Triboro RX" Could Provide More Transit Opportunities 20

6/26: Rediscovering the Romance of the Bicycle in Paris 2

6/20: Q&A With Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan 20

6/19: Jackson Heights: New Front in One-Way Battle 9

6/19: Will the Revitalized High Bridge be Bike-Friendly? 42

6/05: T.A.: City, State Parking Drive Would Torpedo Taxi Initiative 10

6/05: Bloomberg Upbeat, Media Less So, Ahead of PlaNYC Hearings 2

6/04: StreetFilms: Sadik-Khan Rides the Tour de Brooklyn 2

6/01: City Wants 20,000 New Parking Spaces in Hell's Kitchen 26

May 2007

5/25: Happy Memorial Day Weekend 1

5/18: CB6 Committee Unanimously Approves 9th St. Project 12

5/17: Time to Expand DOT's Toolbox Beyond Signs and Signals? 15

5/17: 9th Street Road Diet Meeting Tonight 2

5/16: Aug. '05 Flashback: 1,200 Slopers Demand a Safer 9th Street 5

5/11: Double-Parking in a Bike Lane? There Isn't Even a Check Box. 4

5/11: PlaNYC Quietly Introduces "Safe Routes to Transit" 3

5/10: There Are Certain Facts That We've All Got to Face Up To 4

5/09: Biofuels, Bus Lanes and Beer 7

5/07: Choose Your Own Hells Kitchen 4

5/07: StreetFilms: Touring Brooklyn's Future Waterfront Greenway 0

5/07: They Cover the Waterfront: Brooklyn's Future Greenway 0

5/07: Another Look at the WSJ Article on European Cycling 1

5/04: DOT: One-Way Park Slope Proposal is Dead 0

5/02: When Streets Are for People 7

5/01: PlaNYC Team Releases Transportation Technical Report 7

April 2007

4/30: Five Small Steps to a More Effective, Progressive DOT 5

4/26: Fun With Numbers (Or: The PlaNYC Index) 1

4/23: How Green Is Our Mayor 44

4/21: StreetFilm: Talking Transportation with Bob Kiley 0

4/20: They Come to Bury the BQE, Not to Praise It 16

4/19: Bruce Schaller Profiles a "City in Flux" 8

4/19: Visions of a Grander Grand Army Plaza 1

4/17: Bus Depots a Symptom of Environmental Injustice 3

4/13: Find Yourself a City to Live In 8

4/12: CB2 Committee Approves "Additional" Prince/Bleecker Routes 3

4/11: Manhattan CB2 Approves DOT's Prince/Bleecker Bike Plan 1

4/09: Pedestrian Safety: London Shows How NYC Can Do Better 8

4/09: City Pitches in for Yankee Stadium Parking 16

4/06: Park Slope Passes on Traffic-Calming, Ped Safety & Bike Lanes 24

4/06: Primeggia's One-Way Safety Claims Are Based on 1970s Studies 3

4/05: Tonight: Help DOT Build a River-to-River Bike Connection 2

4/04: Study: Sidewalks Can't Handle Transit Traffic 8

4/03: Pedestrian and Bike Improvements Coming to Grand Army Plaza 36

4/02: Congestion Relief: It's About Your Health 1

March 2007

3/29: Vanderbilt Avenue: The Model for DOT's 9th Street Proposal? 12

3/29: A Tale of Two DOT Plans 2

3/29: Opposition Brewing to DOT's Proposal for 9th Street Bike Lanes 15

3/29: A Community Workshop to Re-envision Grand Army Plaza 0

3/28: An English Plan in New York 3

3/20: StreetFilms: Interview with Parking Guru Donald Shoup 0

3/20: Mayor Bloomberg at the Crossroads: Who Will Run DOT? 13

3/16: Doctoroff Sets Stage for Something Bold, Creative & Expensive 10

3/16: Coverage of Last Night's Park Slope Meeting 18

3/16: DOT's Park Slope One-Way Presentation 7

3/14: Why Is Saudi Arabia's Oil Production Down? 11

3/13: DOT's Park Slope Proposal: Is this Atlantic Yards Planning? 6

3/13: PlaNYC 2030 Project "Tearing Things Up" at City Hall 6

3/12: Parking: If You Build it They Will Come... in Their Cars. 10

3/09: Report from Atlanta: Don't Walk This Way 23

3/08: The New York City Parking Boom 14

3/08: Brooklyn to Bloomberg: Include Local Stakeholders in Planning 22

3/07: DOT's Park Slope Plan Requires Community Board Support 12

3/05: Why Is DOT Reorganizing Park Slope Traffic? Because. 7

3/05: Commissioner Weinshall Agrees: Two-Way Streets Calm Traffic 0

February 2007

2/28: DOT's Plan for Park Slope Traffic "Improvements" Confirmed 1

2/26: Bloomberg Admin Misses "Golden Opportunity" on Intro. 199 0

2/22: Atlantic Yards Planner: "Space on Streets is Useless Space" 18

2/21: The New Jane Jacobs vs. the New Robert Moses? 5

2/20: Will "Atlantic Yards" Kill the JFK-Lower Manhattan Rail Link? 4

2/20: PlanNYC 2030: What makes a Community Sustainable? 4

2/14: The Power of Moses: Please Wield Responsibly 2

2/13: Sustainable Transportation for NYC: How to Make it Happen 2

2/12: The Seed of a Revolution in Red Hook 6

2/09: StreetFilms: "A City Is a Means to a Way of Life" 0

2/09: Congestion Tops Citizens' PlaNYC 2030 Concerns 1

2/06: New York New Visions Tackles "Sustainable" New York Future 2

2/05: The Price of Parking: Let the Free Market Decide? 63

2/02: StreetFilms: An Interview with Sam Schwartz 0

January 2007

1/29: New York City 2030. London Today. 2

1/23: The Known Unknowns of New York City's Streets 4

1/23: Teaching City Gov't to Count More Than Just Cars and Trucks 5

1/16: Flushed Away 25

1/16: PLANYC 2030 Community Leader Meetings 2

1/16: Uncool New York: NYC Lags in Combatting Climate Change 2

1/10: Making Hell's Kitchen Less Hellish 20

1/08: A Tale of Two Cities' Parking Policies 6

1/05: Where the Sidewalk Ends: Dubai 11

December 2006

12/31: Setting the Agenda on Pedestrian Safety 29

12/18: Holiday Book Recommendations Open Thread 15

12/13: Futurama 2030 Speech: News Round-Up 1

12/12: Futurama 2030: Bloomberg Outlines Ambitious 10-Point Agenda 37

12/05: File Under: No Wonder New York City is Falling Behind London 7

November 2006

11/21: A CRISPier Way to Build NYC's 200+ Miles of New Bike Lanes? 17

11/17: Transit-Oriented Development in Jersey City 7

11/09: Traffic: A Social Problem Not a Design Problem 17

11/08: Buses and Atlantic Yards 0

11/08: Connecting Urban Design and Public Health 0

11/03: Transit-Oriented Development Forum 1

11/02: London Calling. Are New York's Leaders Really Listening? 5

October 2006

10/31: Street Films Portland Week: Bicycle Boulevards 11

10/31: T.O.D. in Brooklyn: Turning Parking Lots into Housing 11

10/23: They Paved Prospect Heights and Put up a Parking Lot 0

10/17: The Cost of Sprawl on Low-Income Families 8

10/12: Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway: Important Meeting Tonight 0

10/11: Planetizen Interview With Amanda Burden 5

10/10: Important Manhattan Transportation Forum on Thursday 4

September 2006

9/26: The Queensboro Meat Grinder 6

9/21: Bloomberg Sustainability Announcement 8

9/21: Breaking: Bloomberg to Announce Big Sustainability Plan Today 6

9/14: Streetsblog Interview: Ryan Russo 10

August 2006

8/31: Rally for a Livable Houston Street 8

8/25: Rally for Houston Street Buffered Bike Lanes 3

8/24: Street Film: The Transformation of Willoughby Street 10

8/16: Sneak Preview of Bloomberg's 21st Century Urban Vision 16