File today’s Streetsblog Network post under "where fantasy meets reality." First, via The Dirt, the blog of the American Society of Landscape Architects, we have a post about the winners of the Reburbia contest, "a design competition dedicated to re-envisioning the suburbs." Sponsored by Dwell magazine and Inhabitat, the contest garnered some pretty interesting entries, […]

Yesterday we featured a post from The Urbanophile about the political and personal costs of carlessness in a small city. Today, we’ve got something of an antidote to that — an entry from Streetsblog Network member Bike Skirt in Birmingham, Alabama, about the sense of liberation, connection and empowerment that giving up a car can […]

What kind of a statement does car-free living make in a small city? Today on the Streetsblog Network, Aaron Renn at The Urbanophile poses that question in a provocative post. Sure, it’s about walking the walk of sustainable transportation, he says, but it also represents a withdrawal from the community structure in places such as […]

Today from the Streetsblog Network, a look back at the early days of paved roads in the United States and the vehicle operators who led the way for their paving. The vehicles some of these men were operating, as Detroit’s  M-Bike.org reminds us, were bicycles: What’s missing from this cake? The Woodward Avenue Action Association […]

Congratulations, it looks like your city is going to be getting high-speed rail service. Just one thing. Because of various political and economic considerations, the station is going to be located out at the airport — far from any walkable destination and a $12 cab ride from downtown. That’s the scenario that’s currently facing Madison, […]

Today on the Streetsblog Network, David Alpert at Greater Greater Washington counters the accusation that, just because he believes in less autocentric development, he hates cars. In an extremely eloquent and thoughtful post, Alpert makes the distinction between "no more cars" and "not more cars": Photo by lizjones 112 via Flickr. Advocates for more walkable, […]

Sometimes, and with some people, intuitive arguments just don’t cut it. It’s good to have some facts and figures at hand. That’s the topic of today’s featured post from the Streetsblog Network. On member site Worldchanging, Clark Williams-Derry wrote: Photo of a neighborhood in Ventura, California, by -Wink- via Flickr. Sometimes I feel a little […]

Today on the Streetsblog Network, Austin Contrarian counts the ways that too much parking can damage a downtown: Photo by Amber Rhea via Flickr. Parking raises the cost of new development, which means less of it. This may be no big deal for a city with a built-out downtown, but it is a big deal […]

The troubled relationship between cars and bikes is an old topic, but that hasn’t stopped it from being a hot one on the Streetsblog Network and around the web in general this week. And it’s not going to go away any time soon. What it looks like when everyone tries to do the right thing. […]

Today on the Streetsblog Network, we bring you a post from Greater Greater Washington in which a bus and a bicycle have a bad encounter, leading to a discussion about windshield perspective (that bus has a mighty big windshield) and sharing the road. Antonio López writes: Bus and bike (not the ones in the story) […]

We talk a lot on this blog about abstractions — theories of urban development, economic hypotheses, planning paradigms. But in the end, it all has to play out in the real world. And the real world of transportation is about one simple thing: moving your body from one place to another place. So today we’re […]

Density, density, density. It’s something of a mantra in sustainable transportation circles. But in today’s featured post from the Streetsblog Network, UrbanCincy points to the cautionary example of Atlanta — a place that could perhaps best be described as dense sprawl. The skylines of Atlanta. Photo by mattsal88 via ImageShack. What has happened in Atlanta […]