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Urban Planning
- Wed 4:
Congress Set to Double the Size of Sprawl-Centric Home Buyer’s Tax Credit
- Tue 6:
White House Urban Affairs Chief: Promising Words But Little Hint of a Plan
- Tue 15:
Planetizen Unveils Its Top 100 Urban Thinkers
- Fri 4:
Biden on Stimulus Aid to Cities: "We’re Trying … It’s Imperfect"
- Wed 19:
When Dodging Death Becomes a Fact of Life
- Fri 12:
New Urbanism: Built to Last
- Wed 3:
Meridian, Mississippi: What Trains Can Do for a City
- Thu 19:
Use the Stimulus Bill to Complete Our Nation's Streets
- Fri 24:
The Case for Active Transportation, by the Numbers
- Fri 10:
Public Picks Grand Army Plaza Design
- Thu 9:
Jan Gehl Reflects on San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf
- Wed 8:
Jan Gehl Says San Francisco Must be Sweet to Pedestrians and Cyclists
- Fri 26:
Streetfilms: Interview With the Transportation Engineer
- Fri 12:
How Would You Reinvent Grand Army Plaza?
- Mon 18:
Planners and Green Groups Call for Off-Street Parking Reform
- Wed 23:
Wiki Wednesday: Vehicle-Miles Traveled
- Thu 26:
Obama, Ethanol, and the "New Metropolitan Reality"
- Wed 18:
Carfree Cities Conference Kicks Off in Portland
- Thu 12:
City Planning Commission Approves 400-Car Garage for Hell's Kitchen
- Fri 30:
Hell's Parking Lot
- Mon 12:
Historic Town Chooses to "Retain Its Charm" By Enabling Sprawl
- Tue 29:
Sadik-Khan Introduces the New York City Model
- Mon 28:
DOT Rolls Out "Sustainable Streets" Plan
- Thu 24:
Paco Abraham Turns Duane Reade on to Bike Racks
- Tue 15:
In the Heights: City Aims to Make 181st a Complete Street
- Thu 13:
In Istanbul, a Burgeoning Livable Streets Movement
- Tue 4:
Union Campaign Calls for Mary Peters' Ouster
- Sat 1:
Bike Shorts 5: Short Films About the Bike
- Wed 20:
Missing: Urban Policy in the Presidential Campaign
- Thu 24:
"Carfree Cities" Conference Comes to Portland
- Tue 22:
Masdar: Arabic for Chutzpah?
- Tue 15:
Will the Tide Turn on City Parking Policy?
- Thu 10:
Times Square: Too Many People, or Just Too Many Cars?
- Tue 8:
Bronxites Pick Parking Over People
- Mon 10:
Radiohead: A Rock Band With a Firm Grasp of Urban Planning
- Fri 7:
Inom Tullarna: The Ancient Roots of Congestion Pricing
- Fri 7:
Replace Penn Station Rats' Warren With a Pedestrian Boulevard
- Tue 4:
Good Streets Include Streetcars
- Mon 3:
Ciclovía: A Moving Experience in Bogotá, Colombia
- Thu 29:
Carrion Gets $30K Donation Following Yanks Walkway Deal
- Tue 27:
Eliminate the Parking Requirement
- Mon 19:
Alan Durning's "Year of Living Carlessly" and "Bicycle Neglect"
- Wed 7:
Jan Gehl: Gridlocked Streets Are "Not a Law of Nature"
- Thu 11:
In Platinum City Even the Munchkins Ride Bikes
- Wed 10:
Kunstler: Parking Plans Are Based on "Faulty Assumptions"
- Wed 3:
Yankees' Subsidy Deal Gets Stranger and Stranger
- Tue 25:
DOT Asks, and Gets an Earful from West Siders
- Fri 21:
Upper West Side Livable Streets Advocates: Mark Your Calendar
- Fri 21:
Making the Case for Compact Development
- Tue 18:
Seeing Myrtle Avenue With Fresh Eyes
- Thu 13:
Does New York Need a 'New Moses'?
- Thu 13:
A Gehl Dispatch From Down Under
- Thu 13:
World Cities Adding One Million People Every Week
- Wed 12:
DOT Launches Gehl Street Survey Project
- Fri 7:
Last Day for High Bridge Survey
- Tue 4:
Take the NYC Neighborhood Quality of Life Survey
- Fri 24:
Transit-Oriented America, Part 5: Wrap-Up
- Wed 22:
Central Park 66th Street Transverse Is Unsafe
- Tue 21:
Speak Up for an Accessible Car-Free High Bridge
- Mon 20:
The Urban Transportation Report Card
- Fri 17:
For Your Weekend Viewing Pleasure: Portland!
- Tue 7:
Hello, Dolly!
- Mon 6:
New Blog Focuses on Tearing Down the "Highway to Nowhere"
- Fri 27:
Bike Parking on Steroids
- Thu 19:
Aparkalypse Now in San Francisco
- Fri 6:
The Suburbanist Paradox
- Fri 29:
"Triboro RX" Could Provide More Transit Opportunities
- Fri 29:
O'Donnell Supports PlaNYC, but Congestion Pricing?
- Tue 26:
Rediscovering the Romance of the Bicycle in Paris
- Wed 20:
Q&A With Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan
- Tue 19:
Jackson Heights: New Front in One-Way Battle
- Tue 19:
Will the Revitalized High Bridge be Bike-Friendly?
- Mon 11:
California Sues Municipalities for Bad Urban Planning
- Tue 5:
T.A.: City, State Parking Drive Would Torpedo Taxi Initiative
- Mon 4:
StreetFilms: Sadik-Khan Rides the Tour de Brooklyn
- Fri 1:
City Wants 20,000 New Parking Spaces in Hell's Kitchen
- Fri 25:
Happy Memorial Day Weekend
- Fri 18:
CB6 Committee Unanimously Approves 9th St. Project
- Thu 17:
Time to Expand DOT's Toolbox Beyond Signs and Signals?
- Thu 17:
9th Street Road Diet Meeting Tonight
- Wed 16:
Aug. '05 Flashback: 1,200 Slopers Demand a Safer 9th Street
- Fri 11:
Double-Parking in a Bike Lane? There Isn't Even a Check Box.
- Fri 11:
PlaNYC Quietly Introduces "Safe Routes to Transit"
- Thu 10:
There Are Certain Facts That We've All Got to Face Up To
- Wed 9:
Biofuels, Bus Lanes and Beer
- Mon 7:
Choose Your Own Hells Kitchen
- Mon 7:
StreetFilms: Touring Brooklyn's Future Waterfront Greenway
- Mon 7:
They Cover the Waterfront: Brooklyn's Future Greenway
- Mon 7:
Another Look at the WSJ Article on European Cycling
- Fri 4:
DOT: One-Way Park Slope Proposal is Dead
- Wed 2:
When Streets Are for People
- Tue 1:
PlaNYC Team Releases Transportation Technical Report
- Mon 30:
Five Small Steps to a More Effective, Progressive DOT
- Thu 26:
Fun With Numbers (Or: The PlaNYC Index)
- Mon 23:
How Green Is Our Mayor
- Sat 21:
StreetFilm: Talking Transportation with Bob Kiley
- Fri 20:
They Come to Bury the BQE, Not to Praise It
- Thu 19:
Bruce Schaller Profiles a "City in Flux"
- Thu 19:
Visions of a Grander Grand Army Plaza
- Tue 17:
Bus Depots a Symptom of Environmental Injustice
- Fri 13:
Find Yourself a City to Live In
- Thu 12:
CB2 Committee Approves "Additional" Prince/Bleecker Routes
- Wed 11:
Manhattan CB2 Approves DOT's Prince/Bleecker Bike Plan
- Mon 9:
Pedestrian Safety: London Shows How NYC Can Do Better
- Mon 9:
City Pitches in for Yankee Stadium Parking
- Fri 6:
Park Slope Passes on Traffic-Calming, Ped Safety & Bike Lanes
- Fri 6:
Primeggia's One-Way Safety Claims Are Based on 1970s Studies
- Thu 5:
Tonight: Help DOT Build a River-to-River Bike Connection
- Wed 4:
Study: Sidewalks Can't Handle Transit Traffic
- Tue 3:
Pedestrian and Bike Improvements Coming to Grand Army Plaza
- Sun 1:
Breaking News: Frieden Tapped as DOT Commish
- Thu 29:
Vanderbilt Avenue: The Model for DOT's 9th Street Proposal?
- Thu 29:
A Tale of Two DOT Plans
- Thu 29:
Opposition Brewing to DOT's Proposal for 9th Street Bike Lanes
- Thu 29:
A Community Workshop to Re-envision Grand Army Plaza
- Wed 28:
An English Plan in New York
- Tue 20:
StreetFilms: Interview with Parking Guru Donald Shoup
- Tue 20:
Mayor Bloomberg at the Crossroads: Who Will Run DOT?
- Fri 16:
Doctoroff Sets Stage for Something Bold, Creative & Expensive
- Fri 16:
Coverage of Last Night's Park Slope Meeting
- Fri 16:
DOT's Park Slope One-Way Presentation
- Wed 14:
Why Is Saudi Arabia's Oil Production Down?
- Tue 13:
DOT's Park Slope Proposal: Is this Atlantic Yards Planning?
- Tue 13:
PlaNYC 2030 Project "Tearing Things Up" at City Hall
- Mon 12:
Parking: If You Build it They Will Come... in Their Cars.
- Fri 9:
Report from Atlanta: Don't Walk This Way
- Thu 8:
The New York City Parking Boom
- Thu 8:
Brooklyn to Bloomberg: Include Local Stakeholders in Planning
- Wed 7:
DOT's Park Slope Plan Requires Community Board Support
- Mon 5:
Why Is DOT Reorganizing Park Slope Traffic? Because.
- Mon 5:
Commissioner Weinshall Agrees: Two-Way Streets Calm Traffic
- Wed 28:
DOT's Plan for Park Slope Traffic "Improvements" Confirmed
- Mon 26:
Bloomberg Admin Misses "Golden Opportunity" on Intro. 199
- Thu 22:
Atlantic Yards Planner: "Space on Streets is Useless Space"
- Wed 21:
The New Jane Jacobs vs. the New Robert Moses?
- Tue 20:
Will "Atlantic Yards" Kill the JFK-Lower Manhattan Rail Link?
- Tue 20:
PlanNYC 2030: What makes a Community Sustainable?
- Wed 14:
The Power of Moses: Please Wield Responsibly
- Tue 13:
Sustainable Transportation for NYC: How to Make it Happen
- Mon 12:
The Seed of a Revolution in Red Hook
- Fri 9:
Streetfilms: "A City Is a Means to a Way of Life"
- Fri 9:
Congestion Tops Citizens' PlaNYC 2030 Concerns
- Tue 6:
New York New Visions Tackles "Sustainable" New York Future
- Mon 5:
The Price of Parking: Let the Free Market Decide?
- Fri 2:
Streetfilms: An Interview with Sam Schwartz
- Mon 29:
New York City 2030. London Today.
- Tue 23:
The Known Unknowns of New York City's Streets
- Tue 23:
Teaching City Gov't to Count More Than Just Cars and Trucks
- Tue 16:
Flushed Away
- Tue 16:
PLANYC 2030 Community Leader Meetings
- Tue 16:
Uncool New York: NYC Lags in Combatting Climate Change
- Wed 10:
Making Hell's Kitchen Less Hellish
- Mon 8:
A Tale of Two Cities' Parking Policies
- Fri 5:
Where the Sidewalk Ends: Dubai
- Sun 31:
Setting the Agenda on Pedestrian Safety
- Mon 18:
Holiday Book Recommendations Open Thread
- Wed 13:
Futurama 2030 Speech: News Round-Up
- Tue 12:
Futurama 2030: Bloomberg Outlines Ambitious 10-Point Agenda
- Tue 5:
File Under: No Wonder New York City is Falling Behind London
- Tue 21:
A CRISPier Way to Build NYC's 200+ Miles of New Bike Lanes?
- Fri 17:
Transit-Oriented Development in Jersey City
- Thu 9:
Traffic: A Social Problem Not a Design Problem
- Wed 8:
Buses and Atlantic Yards
- Wed 8:
Connecting Urban Design and Public Health
- Fri 3:
Transit-Oriented Development Forum
- Thu 2:
London Calling. Are New York's Leaders Really Listening?
- Tue 31:
Streetfilms Portland Week: Bicycle Boulevards
- Tue 31:
T.O.D. in Brooklyn: Turning Parking Lots into Housing
- Mon 23:
They Paved Prospect Heights and Put up a Parking Lot
- Tue 17:
The Cost of Sprawl on Low-Income Families
- Thu 12:
Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway: Important Meeting Tonight
- Wed 11:
Planetizen Interview With Amanda Burden
- Tue 10:
Important Manhattan Transportation Forum on Thursday
- Tue 26:
The Queensboro Meat Grinder
- Thu 21:
Bloomberg Sustainability Announcement
- Thu 21:
Breaking: Bloomberg to Announce Big Sustainability Plan Today
- Thu 14:
Streetsblog Interview: Ryan Russo
- Thu 31:
Rally for a Livable Houston Street
- Fri 25:
Rally for Houston Street Buffered Bike Lanes
- Thu 24:
Streetfilm: The Transformation of Willoughby Street
- Wed 16:
Sneak Preview of Bloomberg's 21st Century Urban Vision
- Fri 28:
Car Fight