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Q&A: How Advocates, Pols, and Agencies Should Team Up to Change Cities

By Michael Andersen | Oct 23, 2015 | No Comments

Michael Andersen blogs for The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities build better bike lanes to create low-stress streets. When deep economic forces rumble through a country, all its cities change a little. But some of its cities change a lot. What makes a city capable of changing a lot? That’s […]

How Liberating Is Your Transit System? An Interview With Jarrett Walker

By Ben Fried | Jan 17, 2014 | 4 Comments

I first became aware of Jarrett Walker’s work through his blog, Human Transit, a few years ago. Here was someone writing about transit in a completely refreshing way, framing questions not in terms of mode or technology but through the prism of values and desires. To call Walker’s site a transit blog doesn’t quite do […]

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Q&A With Robert Grow: How Utah Decided to Embrace “Quality Growth”

By Tanya Snyder | Dec 2, 2013 | No Comments

If you’ve ever wondered how a deep-red state like Utah has managed to build some of the most ambitious transit expansions in the country, the short answer is: Envision Utah. Starting in the late nineties, the non-profit Envision Utah brought together an incredibly broad spectrum of interests, including plenty of people without a specific stake in […]

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Alan Durning on Reasons to Be Optimistic About Parking Reform

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 19, 2013 | No Comments

We hope you enjoyed part one of our Q&A with Alan Durning. Durning is publishing a series of articles on his blog at the Sightline Institute — where he serves as executive director — about the ways that underpriced parking drives up rents, eats up space, and makes no sense. A reader asked in the […]

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Alan Durning on the “Ruinous, Vicious Circle” of Underpriced Parking

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 18, 2013 | No Comments

Many people have been inspired by UCLA Professor Donald Shoup’s epic takedown of American parking policy, but few have turned that newfound passion into the kind of scholarship Alan Durning has produced on the issue. The executive director of the Pacific Northwest’s sustainability think tank, Sightline Institute, has now published 12 installments in a series […]

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