This week was national bike to work week. But I’m no joiner. I’ve been biking to work for three weeks now. Why? Several reasons. I now live only 3.6 miles from my office, according to Google. It’s actually faster for me to commute by bike than pretty much any other means. It’s cheaper. And it’s [...]
City governments, downtown organizations and independent mobile app developers all seem intent on outreach and education to maximize cities’ existing parking infrastructure.
Christopher B. Leinberger brings a real estate developer’s sensibility and a scholar’s depth of knowledge to efforts to remake suburbia into walkable urban spaces. He’s the president of Locus; a professor at the George Washington University School of Business, a fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington D.C., and author of The Option of Urbanism, [...]
Medical costs can be some of the largest expenses we face. Insurance is a costly burden for those who have it. For those who don’t, any trip to the doctor or emergency room can quickly add up into staggering bills. Meanwhile, most people research, cost compare and haggle trying to find the best prices on [...]
People in their 20s are behaving very differently than previous generations. They’re getting married later, having kids later and buying homes later. In many cases, they’re making it all the way through their 20s having done none of those things. Many wonder if they’ll ever take those steps. If and when they do, today’s 20-somethings [...]
Smart growth projects aim to improve livability of communities, but in some cases they just don’t fit the character of a neighborhood. That’s one issue we examine in our weekly roundup of livability related articles across the Web. This week, we looked at ways planners are proposing to improve streets, how designers teamed with police [...]
As vitamins are to a well-balanced diet, parklets are to parks and Little Free Libraries are to traditional libraries: small and relatively inexpensive methods of making things we know are good for us more convenient and accessible. Even in the digital age, the appeal of information and inspiration in book form shows no sign of going away, perhaps just the methods of getting them.
There’s a feud in my neighborhood. There are fights. There’s noise. Sometimes blood is shed. Neighbors who have lived here longer than I have tell me it’s been going on for generations. The neighbors take sides. But the participants, a passel of feral cats, never establish peace. Last week, NPR aired a story about a [...]
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