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November 2009
Wed 4: Congress Set to Double the Size of Sprawl-Centric Home Buyer’s Tax Credit 11
October 2009
Tue 6: White House Urban Affairs Chief: Promising Words But Little Hint of a Plan 2
September 2009
Tue 15: Planetizen Unveils Its Top 100 Urban Thinkers 7
Fri 4: Biden on Stimulus Aid to Cities: "We’re Trying … It’s Imperfect" 0
August 2009
Wed 19: When Dodging Death Becomes a Fact of Life 36
June 2009
Fri 12: New Urbanism: Built to Last 2
Wed 3: Meridian, Mississippi: What Trains Can Do for a City 4
February 2009
Thu 19: Use the Stimulus Bill to Complete Our Nation's Streets 0
October 2008
Fri 24: The Case for Active Transportation, by the Numbers 3
Fri 10: Public Picks Grand Army Plaza Design 7
Thu 9: Jan Gehl Reflects on San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf 3
Wed 8: Jan Gehl Says San Francisco Must be Sweet to Pedestrians and Cyclists 7
September 2008
Fri 26: Streetfilms: Interview With the Transportation Engineer 5
Fri 12: How Would You Reinvent Grand Army Plaza? 11
August 2008
Mon 18: Planners and Green Groups Call for Off-Street Parking Reform 13
July 2008
Wed 23: Wiki Wednesday: Vehicle-Miles Traveled 1
June 2008
Thu 26: Obama, Ethanol, and the "New Metropolitan Reality" 17
Wed 18: Carfree Cities Conference Kicks Off in Portland 4
Thu 12: City Planning Commission Approves 400-Car Garage for Hell's Kitchen 4
May 2008
Fri 30: Hell's Parking Lot 7
Mon 12: Historic Town Chooses to "Retain Its Charm" By Enabling Sprawl 23
April 2008
Tue 29: Sadik-Khan Introduces the New York City Model 13
Mon 28: DOT Rolls Out "Sustainable Streets" Plan 15
Thu 24: Paco Abraham Turns Duane Reade on to Bike Racks 16
Tue 15: In the Heights: City Aims to Make 181st a Complete Street 16
March 2008
Thu 13: In Istanbul, a Burgeoning Livable Streets Movement 2
Tue 4: Union Campaign Calls for Mary Peters' Ouster 0
Sat 1: Bike Shorts 5: Short Films About the Bike 0
February 2008
Wed 20: Missing: Urban Policy in the Presidential Campaign 4
January 2008
Thu 24: "Carfree Cities" Conference Comes to Portland 1
Tue 22: Masdar: Arabic for Chutzpah? 54
Tue 15: Will the Tide Turn on City Parking Policy? 8
Thu 10: Times Square: Too Many People, or Just Too Many Cars? 14
Tue 8: Bronxites Pick Parking Over People 0
December 2007
Mon 10: Radiohead: A Rock Band With a Firm Grasp of Urban Planning 5
Fri 7: Inom Tullarna: The Ancient Roots of Congestion Pricing 18
Fri 7: Replace Penn Station Rats' Warren With a Pedestrian Boulevard 5
Tue 4: Good Streets Include Streetcars 49
Mon 3: Ciclovía: A Moving Experience in Bogotá, Colombia 36
November 2007
Thu 29: Carrion Gets $30K Donation Following Yanks Walkway Deal 1
Tue 27: Eliminate the Parking Requirement 65
Mon 19: Alan Durning's "Year of Living Carlessly" and "Bicycle Neglect" 2
Wed 7: Jan Gehl: Gridlocked Streets Are "Not a Law of Nature" 8
October 2007
Thu 11: In Platinum City Even the Munchkins Ride Bikes 5
Wed 10: Kunstler: Parking Plans Are Based on "Faulty Assumptions" 22
Wed 3: Yankees' Subsidy Deal Gets Stranger and Stranger 10
September 2007
Tue 25: DOT Asks, and Gets an Earful from West Siders 3
Fri 21: Upper West Side Livable Streets Advocates: Mark Your Calendar 18
Fri 21: Making the Case for Compact Development 8
Tue 18: Seeing Myrtle Avenue With Fresh Eyes 6
Thu 13: Does New York Need a 'New Moses'? 24
Thu 13: A Gehl Dispatch From Down Under 2
Thu 13: World Cities Adding One Million People Every Week 2
Wed 12: DOT Launches Gehl Street Survey Project 12
Fri 7: Last Day for High Bridge Survey 6
Tue 4: Take the NYC Neighborhood Quality of Life Survey 0
August 2007
Fri 24: Transit-Oriented America, Part 5: Wrap-Up 1
Wed 22: Central Park 66th Street Transverse Is Unsafe 11
Tue 21: Speak Up for an Accessible Car-Free High Bridge 3
Mon 20: The Urban Transportation Report Card 7
Fri 17: For Your Weekend Viewing Pleasure: Portland! 11
Tue 7: Hello, Dolly! 45
Mon 6: New Blog Focuses on Tearing Down the "Highway to Nowhere" 7
July 2007
Fri 27: Bike Parking on Steroids 23
Thu 19: Aparkalypse Now in San Francisco 3
Fri 6: The Suburbanist Paradox 13
June 2007
Fri 29: "Triboro RX" Could Provide More Transit Opportunities 20
Fri 29: O'Donnell Supports PlaNYC, but Congestion Pricing? 5
Tue 26: Rediscovering the Romance of the Bicycle in Paris 2
Wed 20: Q&A With Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan 20
Tue 19: Jackson Heights: New Front in One-Way Battle 9
Tue 19: Will the Revitalized High Bridge be Bike-Friendly? 42
Mon 11: California Sues Municipalities for Bad Urban Planning 2
Tue 5: T.A.: City, State Parking Drive Would Torpedo Taxi Initiative 10
Mon 4: StreetFilms: Sadik-Khan Rides the Tour de Brooklyn 2
Fri 1: City Wants 20,000 New Parking Spaces in Hell's Kitchen 26
May 2007
Fri 25: Happy Memorial Day Weekend 1
Fri 18: CB6 Committee Unanimously Approves 9th St. Project 12
Thu 17: Time to Expand DOT's Toolbox Beyond Signs and Signals? 15
Thu 17: 9th Street Road Diet Meeting Tonight 2
Wed 16: Aug. '05 Flashback: 1,200 Slopers Demand a Safer 9th Street 5
Fri 11: Double-Parking in a Bike Lane? There Isn't Even a Check Box. 4
Fri 11: PlaNYC Quietly Introduces "Safe Routes to Transit" 3
Thu 10: There Are Certain Facts That We've All Got to Face Up To 4
Wed 9: Biofuels, Bus Lanes and Beer 7
Mon 7: Choose Your Own Hells Kitchen 4
Mon 7: StreetFilms: Touring Brooklyn's Future Waterfront Greenway 0
Mon 7: They Cover the Waterfront: Brooklyn's Future Greenway 0
Mon 7: Another Look at the WSJ Article on European Cycling 1
Fri 4: DOT: One-Way Park Slope Proposal is Dead 0
Wed 2: When Streets Are for People 7
Tue 1: PlaNYC Team Releases Transportation Technical Report 7
April 2007
Mon 30: Five Small Steps to a More Effective, Progressive DOT 5
Thu 26: Fun With Numbers (Or: The PlaNYC Index) 1
Mon 23: How Green Is Our Mayor 44
Sat 21: StreetFilm: Talking Transportation with Bob Kiley 0
Fri 20: They Come to Bury the BQE, Not to Praise It 16
Thu 19: Bruce Schaller Profiles a "City in Flux" 8
Thu 19: Visions of a Grander Grand Army Plaza 1
Tue 17: Bus Depots a Symptom of Environmental Injustice 3
Fri 13: Find Yourself a City to Live In 8
Thu 12: CB2 Committee Approves "Additional" Prince/Bleecker Routes 3
Wed 11: Manhattan CB2 Approves DOT's Prince/Bleecker Bike Plan 1
Mon 9: Pedestrian Safety: London Shows How NYC Can Do Better 8
Mon 9: City Pitches in for Yankee Stadium Parking 16
Fri 6: Park Slope Passes on Traffic-Calming, Ped Safety & Bike Lanes 24
Fri 6: Primeggia's One-Way Safety Claims Are Based on 1970s Studies 3
Thu 5: Tonight: Help DOT Build a River-to-River Bike Connection 2
Wed 4: Study: Sidewalks Can't Handle Transit Traffic 8
Tue 3: Pedestrian and Bike Improvements Coming to Grand Army Plaza 36
Sun 1: Breaking News: Frieden Tapped as DOT Commish 14
March 2007
Thu 29: Vanderbilt Avenue: The Model for DOT's 9th Street Proposal? 12
Thu 29: A Tale of Two DOT Plans 2
Thu 29: Opposition Brewing to DOT's Proposal for 9th Street Bike Lanes 15
Thu 29: A Community Workshop to Re-envision Grand Army Plaza 0
Wed 28: An English Plan in New York 3
Tue 20: StreetFilms: Interview with Parking Guru Donald Shoup 0
Tue 20: Mayor Bloomberg at the Crossroads: Who Will Run DOT? 13
Fri 16: Doctoroff Sets Stage for Something Bold, Creative & Expensive 10
Fri 16: Coverage of Last Night's Park Slope Meeting 18
Fri 16: DOT's Park Slope One-Way Presentation 7
Wed 14: Why Is Saudi Arabia's Oil Production Down? 11
Tue 13: DOT's Park Slope Proposal: Is this Atlantic Yards Planning? 6
Tue 13: PlaNYC 2030 Project "Tearing Things Up" at City Hall 6
Mon 12: Parking: If You Build it They Will Come... in Their Cars. 10
Fri 9: Report from Atlanta: Don't Walk This Way 23
Thu 8: The New York City Parking Boom 14
Thu 8: Brooklyn to Bloomberg: Include Local Stakeholders in Planning 22
Wed 7: DOT's Park Slope Plan Requires Community Board Support 12
Mon 5: Why Is DOT Reorganizing Park Slope Traffic? Because. 7
Mon 5: Commissioner Weinshall Agrees: Two-Way Streets Calm Traffic 0
February 2007
Wed 28: DOT's Plan for Park Slope Traffic "Improvements" Confirmed 1
Mon 26: Bloomberg Admin Misses "Golden Opportunity" on Intro. 199 0
Thu 22: Atlantic Yards Planner: "Space on Streets is Useless Space" 18
Wed 21: The New Jane Jacobs vs. the New Robert Moses? 5
Tue 20: Will "Atlantic Yards" Kill the JFK-Lower Manhattan Rail Link? 4
Tue 20: PlanNYC 2030: What makes a Community Sustainable? 4
Wed 14: The Power of Moses: Please Wield Responsibly 2
Tue 13: Sustainable Transportation for NYC: How to Make it Happen 2
Mon 12: The Seed of a Revolution in Red Hook 6
Fri 9: Streetfilms: "A City Is a Means to a Way of Life" 0
Fri 9: Congestion Tops Citizens' PlaNYC 2030 Concerns 1
Tue 6: New York New Visions Tackles "Sustainable" New York Future 2
Mon 5: The Price of Parking: Let the Free Market Decide? 63
Fri 2: Streetfilms: An Interview with Sam Schwartz 0
January 2007
Mon 29: New York City 2030. London Today. 2
Tue 23: The Known Unknowns of New York City's Streets 4
Tue 23: Teaching City Gov't to Count More Than Just Cars and Trucks 5
Tue 16: Flushed Away 25
Tue 16: PLANYC 2030 Community Leader Meetings 2
Tue 16: Uncool New York: NYC Lags in Combatting Climate Change 2
Wed 10: Making Hell's Kitchen Less Hellish 20
Mon 8: A Tale of Two Cities' Parking Policies 6
Fri 5: Where the Sidewalk Ends: Dubai 11
December 2006
Sun 31: Setting the Agenda on Pedestrian Safety 29
Mon 18: Holiday Book Recommendations Open Thread 15
Wed 13: Futurama 2030 Speech: News Round-Up 1
Tue 12: Futurama 2030: Bloomberg Outlines Ambitious 10-Point Agenda 37
Tue 5: File Under: No Wonder New York City is Falling Behind London 7
November 2006
Tue 21: A CRISPier Way to Build NYC's 200+ Miles of New Bike Lanes? 17
Fri 17: Transit-Oriented Development in Jersey City 7
Thu 9: Traffic: A Social Problem Not a Design Problem 17
Wed 8: Buses and Atlantic Yards 0
Wed 8: Connecting Urban Design and Public Health 0
Fri 3: Transit-Oriented Development Forum 1
Thu 2: London Calling. Are New York's Leaders Really Listening? 5
October 2006
Tue 31: Streetfilms Portland Week: Bicycle Boulevards 11
Tue 31: T.O.D. in Brooklyn: Turning Parking Lots into Housing 11
Mon 23: They Paved Prospect Heights and Put up a Parking Lot 0
Tue 17: The Cost of Sprawl on Low-Income Families 8
Thu 12: Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway: Important Meeting Tonight 0
Wed 11: Planetizen Interview With Amanda Burden 5
Tue 10: Important Manhattan Transportation Forum on Thursday 4
September 2006
Tue 26: The Queensboro Meat Grinder 6
Thu 21: Bloomberg Sustainability Announcement 8
Thu 21: Breaking: Bloomberg to Announce Big Sustainability Plan Today 6
Thu 14: Streetsblog Interview: Ryan Russo 10
August 2006
Thu 31: Rally for a Livable Houston Street 8
Fri 25: Rally for Houston Street Buffered Bike Lanes 3
Thu 24: Streetfilm: The Transformation of Willoughby Street 10
Wed 16: Sneak Preview of Bloomberg's 21st Century Urban Vision 16
April 2006
Fri 28: Car Fight 8