Posts by David Roberts
- Citytank believes that cities are a solution. Our mission is to propagate ideas that help fulfill the promise of cities to both expand the human spirit, and sustain a thriving planet.
- Supply Side, a new series addressing the interplay between development, regulations, housing supply, and affordability, and what it all means for creating the sustainable cities of the future. Or check out the C200 Series on why cities matter, and the S400 Series on solutions for cities.
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- Why Today's Start-Ups Are Choosing Urban Lofts Over Suburban Office Parks
- Density is the new fertility bogeyman
- Walkability, but hold the red tape
- Building Hyperdensity and Civic Delight
- Why Living in a City Makes You More Innovative
- The Coming Bold Transformation of the American City
- Why aren’t younger Americans driving anymore?
- Good Enough Urbanism
- The Biggest Blind Spot of Urban Greens?
- Share Everything: Why the Way We Consume Has Changed Forever
- Central cities now growing faster than suburbs, confirming trends for walkable lifestyles, shorter commutes
- Starving the cities to feed the suburbs
- Seattle Population, Kids, & Ownership vs. Top 100 Cities
- What's Behind San Francisco's Sudden Building Boom?
- The Great Decline Of American Driving
- The Uselessness of Economic Development Incentives
- Cities With Denser Cores Do Better
- Building Cities for the Families of Today
- The electorate becomes urban — will the Republican Party adapt?
- Embracing Congestion
- Seeing the back of the car
- New stats drive home Millennials' aversion to cars
- Denver Rethinks the Modern Commuter
- New Understanding of Traffic Congestion
- Now Coveted: A Walkable, Convenient Place
- When the 1 percent say no
- Pedaling to Prosperity: Biking Saves U.S. Riders Billions A Year
- USA Today: Subdivisions go urban as housing market changes
- Limiting density hurts low-income education
- In New Census Data, An Improved Outlook For Core Counties
- Why Young Americans Are Driving So Much Less Than Their Parents
- Death to the McMansion
- Are Mayors Asking Washington for the Wrong Thing?
- Retrofitting the Suburbs to Increase Walking
- Live smaller, work closer, shed excess
- Are we reaching ‘peak car’?
- The Cost of Congestion, The Value of Transit
- Sightline: Congestion: The Untold Story
- Parking tiff settled; stadium-lot development ready to go
- In The Future, The Only Jobs Left Will Be Green
- One Path to Better Jobs: More Density in Cities
- Are We Reaching Peak Travel?
- There's No Housing Bottom In Sight
- More homebuyers want walkable, transit-served communities
- Scientific American Magazine: Cities Issue
- The end of the road for motormania
- Transit Access and Zero-Vehicle Households
- Seeing cities as the environmental solution, not the problem
- No 'show-stopper' reason why Vancouver's viaducts can't be removed
- TODs for Tots
- Companies head back downtown
- Six Reasons Driving Has Peaked in U.S. Cities
- CEOs for Cities: Housing Booms in Urban Cores
- Apartment developers bypass suburbs, target Seattle
- How the Great Reset Has Already Changed America
- The Role of Driving in Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Oil Consumption
- James Howard Kunstler: Back to the Future
- The American suburbs are a giant Ponzi scheme
- Why Building Roads Creates Traffic
- Mid-rise living: A new best practice?
- Is Las Vegas the new Detroit?
- Building More Roads Only Causes More Traffic
- Does smart growth reduce carbon emissions? Bet the house on it.
- For the first time since the suburbs became king in the 1960s, housing values there have fallen below those of their urban counterparts
- Affordable rental housing scarce in U.S., study finds
- No More Freeways: Urban Land Use Transportation Dynamics Without Freeway Capacity Expansion
- New Survey: Americans (Mostly) Prefer Smart Growth to Sprawl
- Don't want density? Perhaps you should pay for that right
- Green TODs
- Consider Transportation Cost to Make Fair Housing Practical
- Kick conventionally-fueled cars out of Europe's centers by 2050, European Commission urges
- UN report: Cities ignore climate change at their peril
- Transit-Oriented Development and Communities of Color: A Field Report
- City's design, transit system can ease gas costs (USA TODAY)
- Stop The Insanity (a.k.a. the Deep Bore Tunnel)
- Maybe we should try McGinn's idea to shut the viaduct now
- Todd Litman: The First Casualty of a Non-Existent War
- Study: Transit outperforms green buildings
- Smart Growth Helps Cities Adapt to Aging Boomers: EPA
- The Interdependence of Land Use and Transportation
- States that Spent on Public Transportation Created More Jobs
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