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Charles Marohn

Smart Growth

The Next Generation DOT

Angie is a Cleveland-based writer with a background in planning and newspaper reporting. She has been writing about cities for Streetsblog for six years.

Angie Schmitt

Suburbia

Will Cities Hold on to Younger Residents as They Have Children?

Tanya became Streetsblog&#8217;s Capitol Hill editor in September 2010 after covering Congress for Pacifica Radios Washington bureau and for public radio stations around the country. She lives car-free in a transit-oriented and bike-friendly neighborhood of Washington, DC.

Tanya Snyder

Study Predicts “Resilient Walkable” Places Will Lead the Housing Recovery

Brookings: Suburban-Style Zoning Linked to Educational Inequality

Economics

The Incredible Shrinking Megastore: Retailers Think Outside the Big Box

AARP

How Seniors Get Stuck at Home With No Transit Options

Cul-de-Sacs Are Killing Us: Public Safety Lessons From Suburbia

Noah joined Streetsblog as a New York City reporter at the start of 2010. When he was a kid, he collected subway paraphernalia in a Vignelli-map shoebox.
Before coming to Streetsblog, he blogged at TheCityFix DC and worked as a field organizer for the Obama campaign in Toledo, Ohio. Noah graduated from Yale University, where he wrote his senior thesis on the class politics of transportation reform in New York City. He lives in Morningside Heights.

Noah Kazis

Commuting

Report: Want to Ease Commuter Pain? Highways and Sprawl Won’t Help

Elana Schor

Sprawl

New Report Links Foreclosure Risk to Auto Dependence

Mathew Katz is a Canadian freelance reporter/producer living in New York City. His writing has appeared in The Toronto Star, The Village Voice, Torontoist, The Huffington Post, and NPR.org. He&#8217;s also had radio pieces appear on National Public Radio and the BBC World Service. 
Mathew graduated from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is 2009, and before that completed a B.A. at the University of Toronto. He&#8217;s an avid baker, and rides a worn-down hybrid bike around the city.

Mathew Katz

Pedestrian Infrastructure

A Solution for Suburbs: Bypass the Roads