I have a lot of issues with driverless cars, primarily that they are being developed to throw millions of people out of work. With driving pretty much the last decently paid working class job that employs huge numbers of...
sprawl
If cities are to keep growing, as they will, they must stop growing outwards and start growing upwards. The environmental and human consequences are too great to consider otherwise. As.
How much does sprawl cost Americans every year? That got us thinking: What if we could quantify some of these same issues from a city-friendly angle—measuring not the cost of.
No. That's the point Jeff Turrentine makes in critiquing the new Joel Kotkin book. Suburban sprawl is about a serious of structural choices made by American policymakers that have failed the cities, both in the allowing them to go to seed in postwar period and...
Sometimes I read about art projects dealing with socially conscious themes and think "wow, this shows a real lack of self-awareness." That's how I felt when reading about this: Nick.
We spend a good bit of time talking about suburbia and the deleterious effects of housing sprawl here, but job sprawl is another issue worth noting. The building of large.
This is just a small story about a small city, but I thought it was a pretty good look at perhaps the key issue in modern urbanism, especially in the West and the South, which is whether to build up or build out. Durango, Colorado...
A bunch of stories about urban sprawl that deserve attention: 1. If you live in Louisville, Miami, or Salt Lake City, you suffer the nation's highest urban heat island effects..
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.
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 to fix. Subsidizing public transportation and both dense and affordable urban living are far more...