Public Policy

• Park & Rides Lose Money and Waste Land — But Agencies Keep Building Them
• Parking Requirements as a Design Challenge
  In typical suburban zoning, you have to build more paring than rentable SF
• The Plan That Changed Boston Forever
  “Shall we build more expressways through cities? Shall we forge new chains to shackle us to the mistakes of the past?” asked Gov. Sargent. “No. We will not repeat history. We shall learn from it.”
• The Boston Innerbelt Plan
  A proposed eight-lane highway which never happened
• The Shrinking of the American Lawn
  Houses are getting bigger, but the lot size is staying consistent
• L.A. Dispatch: How Cities Can Roll Back Sprawl

New York

• James Murphy’s Musical Subway Turnstile In The Lowline
• Disagreements on Brooklyn F-line Express

Transportation

• What The Paris Trams Can Teach U.S. Cities

• How to Make a Map Go Viral
• Fujiko Nakaya hides Philip Johnson’s Glass House in vaporous fog
• ‘Denser city’: Glen previews de Blasio’s affordable housing plan
• Designer Duds
• Rent Too High? Move to Singapore

• Fitch Ratings: Failure to Invest in Transit Could Hurt the Whole Economy
• A Rare Non-Tragic Chance to Revisit the Idea of Driverless Trains
• We’re Driving Less, So Should We Stop Building New Roads?
• Planning for the End of the Driving Boom
• California Bullet train won’t meet target travel time, lawmakers told
• Why major creative breakthroughs happen in your late thirties