Visions of rethinking suburbs to be green-friendly abound: These examples point to the potential of what some are calling “solar suburbs.” The concept is a sweeping one—solar panels cover roofs,.
You might think that compared to where you live, New York has a pretty good public transportation system. And by some metrics, that's probably true. But New York needs a.
If you like cool visualizations of how sprawl in Los Angeles occurred by noting the age of every building in the city, then this is for you.
The expansion of extreme house flipping and rapidly rising housing prices to cities like Pittsburgh is not a positive development for those of us who value affordable and diverse cities.
Bryan Finoki has a good article on how cities have redesigned spaces in order to declare a low-level war on the homeless, or as Steven Graham call it, "the new.
I think the general LGM consensus on urban planning is pretty similar to many progressives today, which is that cars are mostly bad for cities and walking is mostly good.
No matter how many lanes of traffic governments build, they will never solve traffic problems because they incentivize more driving and more traffic, effectively subsidizing the problem they are meant.
The usual discussion among people interested in cities is that rent control doesn't work. I don't know the literature enough to have a strong opinion on the matter. But I.
