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Would President Romney Build Roads or Rail?
All eyes are on Texas Gov. Rick Perry these days, the faraway frontrunner in the Republican race. But as the primary goes on (and on and on) more Republicans might take note of the fact that in a...
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New Urbanists: No Economic Recovery Without Smart Growth
What happened to the United States over the past several years is most commonly described as a recession. By the technical definition of the word we’re two years into a recovery. But it sure doesn’t...
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Rail~volution: Will New Americans Fuel Smart Growth or Suburbanism?
This year’s Rail~volution conference — the annual gathering of livability advocates, urban sustainability coordinators, and transit agency officials – kicked off today with remarks by Chris Leinberger...
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The Federal Government’s Smart Growth-Inspired Landlord
Robert Peck says he’ll gladly pay more to locate office buildings near transit – the time saved commuting makes it worthwhile. Under Robert Peck, the General Services Administration is emphasizing the...
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Transforming Tysons Corner: A High-Stakes Suburban Retrofit
This is the old Tysons Corner. Photo: Restonian “That strip mall just got rezoned for high rise buildings.” “These auto dealerships are going to disappear.” Those aren’t words you hear very often in...
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Quantified: The Price of Sprawl in Florida
Click on the image to see how sprawl impacts individual communities. We all know sprawl is costly to local communities. Roads, schools, sewers: It all adds up. But the total price-tag is hard to...
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HUD Awards Bring “Bittersweet” End to Sustainability Program
Just days after the interagency Partnership for Sustainable Communities was issued a death blow by having its funding axed in the FY2012 transportation budget, which President Obama signed into law...
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PlanMaryland: A Model for State-Level Smart Growth Planning
The state of Maryland took a bold step to rein in sprawl this week, when Governor Martin O’Malley signed into law PlanMaryland, the state’s first comprehensive plan for sustainable growth. Maryland's...
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Streetsies 2011: The Final Installment
Tomorrow is the last day of 2011, folks. I wish you a Happier New Year than this one was. We’ve spent the last couple days looking back at some of the bests and worsts of 2011. A brief recap: The hit...
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Conservative Pols Hate Government Subsidies, Unless They Subsidize Sprawl
UPDATE 1/5/12: Corrects the Congressional district outline. At a recent meeting of the city council in Celina, Ohio, members considered a request to extend sewer lines to six homes that are currently...
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AASHTO’s Vision of Safe Streets for Seniors: Bigger Type on Highway Signs
Last June, Transportation for America brought the nation’s attention to the fact that older Americans are increasingly stuck in the suburbs without adequate transportation options, leading them to see...
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Governors Get on Board With Smart Growth
From left: former Gov. Chet Culver (D-IA), NPR editor Christopher Swope, former Gov. Parris Glendening (D-MD), former Gov. Christie Todd Whitman (R-NJ), former FEMA Director James Lee Witt, former Gov....
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The Strain of Job Sprawl on Two-Income Households
When Mark Lampert was a kid, his mom stayed home with him and his brothers. His dad was out the door by 4:30 every morning, driving to the commuter lot in their distant Houston suburb to take the bus...
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Tennessee DOT Moves Past Road-Widening as a Congestion Reduction Strategy
In the late eighties and nineties, every traffic issue the Tennessee Department of Transportation faced was assigned the same solution: a bypass. But over the years, the department has come around to a...
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Fact-Checking Deval Patrick’s Attack on Romney’s Transpo Record
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick got wild applause last night when he told the Democratic Convention audience: Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick slammed Romney's infrastructure record at the...
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Leinberger: Walkable Urbanism Is the Future, and DC Is the Model
Chris Leinberger wears too many hats to count – real estate developer, George Washington University professor, Brookings fellow – but he has one message: “Walkable urbanism is the future.” Capital...
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Study: 10% More Smart Growth = 20% Less Driving
A professor at San Francisco State University recently developed an econometric model to study how smart growth affects travel behavior. His finding: quite a bit. If Bakersfield, California enjoyed the...
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$450 Billion in Federal Subsidies Tilt U.S. Real Estate Market Toward Sprawl
Real estate in the United States, it turns out, isn’t really guided by “the invisible hand” of the free market. Federal housing subsidies flow disproportionately to single family homes over...
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How Rethinking the Golf Course Could Help Seniors Age in Place
This 75-acre golf course in San Jose, California, is considered a small course. Even so, it's a colossal public expense. Photo: Dave Polaschek/Flickr The 15,753 golf courses in the United States take...
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Mayor Mark Mallory on How Smart Growth Helped Turn Cincinnati Around
About seven years ago, when Mayor Mark Mallory came on the scene, Cincinnati was at a low point. To convince the crowd at the New Partners for Smart Growth conference in Kansas City last week of the...
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