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Gary Toth

Project for Public Spaces

LOS and Travel Projections: The Wrong Tools for Planning Our Streets

Ben Fried started as a Streetsblog reporter in 2008 and led the site as editor-in-chief from 2010 to 2018. He lives in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, with his wife.

Ben Fried

Andrew Cuomo

The Upside of Cuomo’s Convention Center Plan: Urbanism on the West Side

Ben Goldman

Sprawl

When “Old and Blighted” Development Beats “Shiny and New” Suburbanism

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

HUD Awards Bring “Bittersweet” End to Sustainability Program

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

Development

Planning Experts Call for an Overhaul of NYC Zoning Rules

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Department of City Planning Continues to Restrict Development Near Transit

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.

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Cleveland

In Defense of the Corner Market

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PlaNYC 2.0 Hints at Parking Reform, Touts Bike-Share, Lacks Transpo Focus

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$100 Million for HUD Sustainability Program Survives in This Year’s Budget

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