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Parking lots: Design of Roads, Streets and Infrastructure

Parking lots: Design of Roads, Streets and Infrastructure

Land value tax - idea to reform taxes to improve cities, Affordable Housing

Land value tax - idea to reform taxes to improve cities, Affordable Housing

Traffic Jams, Transit Congestion - Design of Roads, Streets and Infrastructure

Traffic Jams, Transit Congestion - Design of Roads, Streets and Infrastructure

San Francisco and the Challenge of Affordable Housing in Fast-Growing Urban Centers

San Francisco and the Challenge of Affordable Housing in Fast-Growing Urban Centers

Miami - Startup Ecosystem 2020-2021

a collection of articles and resources about Miami’s startup ecosystem

California - and the Challenge of Affordable Housing

a collection of articles and resources looking at The Challenge of Affordable Housing in Fast-Gro...

Suburbs, Cities and Economic development

Suburbs, Cities and Economic development

Bicycle - safety, bike lanes

a collection of articles about Bicycle - safety, bike lanes

Miami, art, creativity and economic development

a collection of articles and resources about Miami’s artist community

eMerge Americas and the Miami Startup Ecosystem

a collection of articles and resources about Miami’s startup ecosystem

Transit, and public transportation in Miami - alternatives, innovation, ideas

Transit, and public transportation in Miami - alternatives, innovation, ideas

Reusing Old Buildings in Cities and Suburbs

a collection of articles and resources looking at efforts in Reusing Old Buildings in Cities and ...

Uber in London (legal issues)

a collection of articles about Uber in London (legal issues)

Self-driving autonomous vehicles: Cities and Policy Issues

a collection of articles and videos about Self-driving autonomous vehicles: Cities and Policy Issues

Suburbs and Affordable Housing in Cities

a collection of articles and resources looking at Suburbs and Affordable Housing in Cities

Miami - Startup Ecosystem

a collection of articles and resources about Miami’s startup ecosystem

San Francisco and Bike and Scooter Sharing - Policy, City Design

a collection of articles and videos about San Francisco and Bike and Scooter Sharing - Policy, Ci...

Resources within this category

Article

What’s Up with Austin? - David Perell

Austin is a mediocre city, but a great place to live.  Since I moved to town, a bunch of people have asked me, “What’s up with Austin?” This ... (2022)


Article

From video game to day job: How ‘SimCity’ inspired a generation of city planners - Los Angeles Times

SimCity just turned 30. It has introduced millions of players to the joys and frustrations of zoning, street grids and infrastructure funding. For ... (2019)


Article

6 Rules for Better, More Inclusive Economic Development in Cities - CityLab

Urban leaders need to kick the incentive habit and take a more inclusive approach to growing local economies. (2019)


Article

How Airbnb is squeezing Toronto’s housing market – VICE News

In the midst of a mounting rental crisis, the city is still unable to enforce rules that would limit ghost hotels. (2019)


Article

Even With a Housing Oversupply, Quebec City Is Coming For Its Farmland

As agricultural areas are snatched up and transformed into new housing developments, one farmer keeps fighting. (2019)


Article

London Launches 5-Year Plan To Entice More People To Fall In Love With Cycling - Forbes

London launches new 5-year Cycling Action Plan. Interview with Will Norman, London's cycling and walking commissioner. (2018)


Article

Why Public Transportation Works Better Outside the U.S. - CityLab

The widespread failure of American mass transit is usually blamed on cheap gas and suburban sprawl. But the full story of why other countries succe... (2018)


Article

$5.25 million Knight Foundation initiative puts people at the center of local self-driving vehicle programs

New investment will support pilot projects in Detroit; Long Beach, California; Miami; San Jose, California; and Pittsburgh (2018)


Article

Electric scooters: why Bird, Lime, Skip, and Spin are taking over cities - Vox

Turns out there’s a lot of latent demand for a quick and cheap way to get around. (2018)


Article

Autonomous Vehicles Might Drive Cities to Financial Ruin | WIRED

American cities rely on car-related fees to fund public transit. But driverless cars might not need to park or fill up on gas—causing the system to... (2018)


Article

Are Americans Moving to the Suburbs? It's Complicated. - CityLab

Basic comparisons of population growth rates don’t tell the whole story, and they misrepresent important questions about where people really want t... (2018)


Article

MIAMI’S NEW URBAN CRISIS - 2018 report - Richard Florida

“But, there is a downside to Miami’s urban revival: Its recent economic boom has generated a New Urban Crisis born from its very success. Compared ... (2018)


Article

Save the Scooters, Redesign the Streets, and Save San Francisco | WIRED

Instead of limiting scooters, officials should rebuild infrastructure with their riders in mind. Because a city made for scooters is a city made fo... (2018)


Article

An Architect Defends the Suburbs - The Atlantic

An architect immerses himself in residential production housing to learn why people like it—and what it can teach Americans about the future of urb... (2018)


Article

Unfortunately, the Electric Scooters Are Fantastic - The Atlantic

But can they succeed despite their essential dorkiness? Should You Ride an Electric Scooter? ... (2018)


Article

Transit Alliance Miami → Where's My Bus? → Service Cuts

With two out of three trips on transit served by buses in Miami, the continued dismantling of the bus system is alarming and misguided. (2018)


Article

The Stark (and Hopeful) Facts About Bus Ridership - CityLab

It’s not a death spiral—at least, not yet. Examples abound of how city leaders can turn the numbers around... (2018)


Article

If You Want to Save Your City, Fall in Love With the Bus | CityLab

Talk of the transportation future is focused on the next shiny thing. But one old technology is central to real transformation... (2018)


Article

A chance to transform urban planning - The new autopia - The Economist

How autonomous vehicles will reshape cities "MODERN CITIES, PARTICULARLY in America, are habitats for cars as much as people, devoting huge amou... (2018)


Article

How do we define affordable housing? — Strong Towns

How affordability is defined and measured can affect which solutions are implemented. (2018)


Article

Can cars and pedestrians safely share a Miami street? Wynwood will soon find out. | Miami Herald

Wynwood is slated to get Miami’s first “woonerf,” a Dutch-inspired street design in which cars, bikes and pedestrians share the pavement. City comm... (2018)


Article

Cities and Ambition | Paul Graham essay

“Great cities attract ambitious people. You can sense it when you walk around one. In a hundred subtle ways, the city sends you a message: you coul... (2018)


Article

Traffic’s Mind-Boggling Economic Toll | CityLab

New Study of Global Traffic Reveals That Traffic Is Bad The largest study of its kind ever conducted reveals just how how costly the scourge of ... (2018)


Article

Why Walkable Streets are More Economically Productive

What is the value of a street where people can walk safely? Why build streets that are constructed with the needs of people in mind, not just the n... (2018)


Article

Unlocking urban resiliency by building a collaborative commons - Knight Foundation

Ric Herrero is co-founder and president of MANO, a nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering a sustainable maker culture in the Greater Miami a... (2017)


Article

'Shared Space' Design: Road Signs Suck. What if We Got Rid of Them All? - 99% Invisible

It seems counterintuitive, but there’s evidence that getting rid of signals, signs and barriers might actually make streets a lot safer. Towns all ... (2017)


Article

How to Build a City That Doesn’t Flood? Turn it Into a Sponge

Cities encourage potentially devastating floods by laying down asphalt and pavement. Could this be avoided by making them "spongier" and more absor... (2017)


Article

Google's new London headquarters: Are "landscrapers" the new skyscrapers? — Quartz at Work

Buildings may soon stretch out, with elevators that move side to side, up and down, and vertically… The property has been dubbed a “landscraper,” a... (2017)


Article

The U.S. Flooded One of Houston’s Richest Neighborhoods to Save Everyone Else

Bloomberg, 2017: "West Houston’s Energy Corridor was hit with a wall of water to avoid a catastrophic reservoir failure. The Army Corps of Engi... (2017)


Article

Growing homeless camps contrast with West Coast tech wealth

SEATTLE (AP) - Housing prices are soaring here thanks to the tech industry, but the boom comes with a consequence: A surge in homelessness marked b... (2017)


Video

How Singapore Solved Housing

How Singapore Solved Housing (2022)


Video

Making It | What It Costs To Live In San Francisco

VICE News Published on Sep 11, 2017 Perennially perched at or near the top of lists of America’s most expensive and affluent cities, San Franci... (2019)


Video

What America's shopping mall decline means for social space - Vox

The mall was America’s third place — for better or for worse. Our lives are lived in 1 of 3 places, the home, ... (2018)


Video

Superblocks: How Barcelona is taking city streets back from cars

Modern cities are designed for cars. But the city of Barcelona is testing out an urban design trick that can give cities back to pedestrians. Read ... (2018)


Video

The high cost of free parking | Vox

Vox Published on Jul 19, 2017 Hidden parking rules hurt our cities. Will Chilton and Paul Mackie of Mobility Lab explain. The cities we liv... (2018)


Video

Wooden skyscrapers could be the future for cities | The Economist

The Economist Published on Feb 1, 2018 Wooden skyscrapers are an ambitious and innovative solution to the problems posed by urbanisation. Not... (2018)


Video

7 principles for building better cities | Peter Calthorpe | TED

More than half of the world's population already lives in cities, and another 2.5 billion people are projected to move to urban areas by 2050. The ... (2018)


Podcast

a16z Podcast: All about Bike Sharing – Andreessen Horowitz

This episode of the a16z Podcast — including city of Dallas councilmember Lee Kleinman, chairman of their Mobility Solutions, Infrastructure, and S... (2018)


Book

The High Cost of Free Parking - (book) by Donald C. Shoup

American drivers park for free on nearly ninety-nine percent of their car trips, and cities require developers to provide ample off-street parking ... (2018)


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7 Videos
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