Sublime

Over the past decade, there has been a series of studies that attribute obesity and its related illnesses directly to the automotive lifestyle and, better yet, to the automotive landscape.● One effort found that for every additional five minutes Atlanta-area residents drove each day, they were 3 percent more likely to be obese.13 Another showed tha

Why were these first meters so popular? Because they reduced overcrowding and hassle, but also because they increased turnover, ensuring more customers per hour. The result was more sales and dramatically higher downtown property values.

Effectiveness means, first, that the people using the streets at different times must actually use the same streets. If their paths are separated from one another’s, or buffered from one another’s, there is no mixture in reality. In terms of city-street economics, mutual support among differences is then a fiction, or something to be seen merely as

This subsidy could perhaps be justified if it produced some greater good for society, but it only produces one benefit: cheaper parking. How does it perform in terms of other important measures? Well, it worsens air and water quality, speeds global warming, increases energy consumption, raises the cost of housing, decreases public revenue, undermin

This is the part of the story that the train boosters don’t want you to hear: investments in transit may be investments in mobility or investments in real estate, but they are not investments in reduced traffic.■ The only way to reduce traffic is to reduce roads or to increase the cost of using them, and that is a bitter pill that few pro-transit c

While there is a body of research that suggests that public housing is correlated with crime, it remains unclear if it is the buildings’ design, the social organization of public housing,21 its mismanagement,22 or the land-use patterns around these places that promotes crime.23 Weighing the relative impact of these possible causal factors is import