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Occasionally I come across a blog post from another source that is so well done that it must be shared. This week’s piece on the blog Strong Towns is such an example. Charles Marohn does a great job not just in skewering a typically lazy report by ASCE, but also tying it back to our [...]
A recurring theme of this blog is that we miss so many opportunities to better utilize excess pavement space that so many of our cities and towns have.
In some cases, that simply means we should reduce or remove travel lanes in favor of more on-street parking, wider sidewalks or better provisions for street trees. [...]
We’re obsessed with big: big houses, big churches, big cars, big stores, big food portions. It’s in our nature I suppose to be impressed with size.
When planning for our communities, though, it’s often best to think small. Not small as in small goals or dreams; but small as in the kinds of spaces that [...]
