Category: Zoning

Sidewalks are where walkability begins. But they are not, in themselves, walkability. For decades, well intentioned communities have treated walkability primarily as an infrastructure problem. If only we could add sidewalks, stripe crosswalks, narrow travel lanes, and install curb extensions, then people would walk. Continue Reading

There’s a mural along Atlanta’s BeltLine that manages, in a single frame, to pack in just about every misunderstanding plaguing 21st-century urbanism. Two skeletal warriors swoop through the sky above rows of chrome-clad condo towers, pipes and ducts sprouting like some dystopian botanical garden. At the center sits... Continue Reading