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Walkable Neighborhoods Cut Obesity and Diabetes Rates
2016-06-13 02:50:32NY Times Neighborhoods designed for walking may decrease the rates of being overweight or obese and having diabetes by more…Read More -
Influx of Younger, Wealthier Residents Transforms U.S. Cities
2016-06-13 01:17:43WSJ Educated, relatively high-earning workers are flocking to urban neighborhoods at a rate not seen since at least the 1970sRead More -
Live In A Walkable Neighborhood? You Get To Be Thinner And Healthier
2015-12-15 15:11:45Fast Company If you can't get anywhere without a car, we hate to tell you, but you may be on…Read More -
Demand for Walkable Neighborhoods Outstripping Supply
2015-11-30 04:50:18Millennials and an aging Baby Boomer population have put a premium on "the hottest trend in real estate": walkability. "The…Read More -
Before & After: 30 Photos that Prove the Power of Designing with Pedestrians in Mind
2015-09-04 21:34:24With the aim of publicizing urban renewal projects that have made cities more pedestrian friendly, Brazilian group Urb-I launched the…Read More -
Developer Takes Big Picture Approach in Baltimore Neighborhood
2015-08-03 19:41:15Convincing firms, especially banks, to embrace community-driven real estate projects will have to start with a few pioneers taking the…Read More -
Three Key Ingredients to Create Memorable Streets That Draw More Pedestrians
2015-08-03 08:48:00The proportion of windows on the street, the amount of “active street frontage” and the quantity of street furniture.Read More -
The Clearest Explanation Yet for Why Millennials Are Driving Less
2015-07-13 09:11:08Taken together, the trends lend credence to the idea that Millennials are increasingly “going nowhere.”Read More -
City of Fort Worth Hopes to Get People Walking Till They’re 100
2015-06-26 13:03:40The fifth-largest Texas city signed on to be a part of the Blue Zones Project, which aims to “reverse-engineer longevity”…Read More -
Core Values: Why American Companies are Moving Downtown
2015-06-18 16:36:04Hundreds of companies across the United States are moving to and investing in walkable downtown locations. A vanguard of American…Read More -
Dublin City Council Poised to Ban Cars in City Center
2015-06-15 04:42:18Dublin is poised to take a major step to ease congestion and encourage use of alternative transportation: Ban personal cars…Read More -
How One Weekend in Dallas Sparked a Movement for Urban Change
2015-04-20 14:52:08Read MoreNext City…
Little did they know that the idea – Build a Better Block (almost called ‘The Perfect Block’) – would some -
One Clue You’re a Millennial: You’re Reading This
2015-04-16 14:08:23City-dwellers of all ages carry attitudes and behaviors in line with those that characterize millennials.Read More -
Why Designers Should Care About the Mechanics of Mixing
2015-04-10 21:25:31Could a designer reverse-engineer a public space to support social mixing by cracking the code of places that already mix…Read More -
10Best: Parks that have helped revive their cities
2015-04-10 09:52:55As cities have evolved in the last 20 years, so have city parks. The newest open spaces place an emphasis…Read More -
Generation Y would rather spend money on tech and recreation than cars
2015-04-01 22:31:13Read MoreThe Drum Modern Marketing…
The study of 1,000 18-34 year olds found that a majority of UK millennials (67 per -
Knight Cities Challenge Announces 32 Winners
2015-03-31 08:41:10The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation announced the winners of the first Knight Cities Challenge, for innovators making…Read More -
Public Spaces - Not a “Nice to Have” But a Basic Need for Cities
2015-03-30 09:27:59Research increasingly suggests that public spaces are even more critical to well-being of the poor and the development of their…Read More -
Walkonomics: the High Line effect
2015-03-23 22:25:09Read MoreARUP…
Recent research commissioned by Living Streets shows that “making places better for walking can boost footfall and trading by -
New ‘Tactical Urbanism’ Book Signals the Way to Equitable, Funded City Planning
2015-03-13 15:31:52Read MoreNext City…
Tactical Urbanism: Short-Term Action for Long-Term Change, is now available, focusing on how short-term, community-based projects—from pop-up parks -
Millennials + Micro-Units the Hottest New Trend Pairing
2015-03-10 00:28:47Read MoreNext City…
A major draw of micro-housing is, as the adage goes, location, location, location. Especially for millennials on a -
Real-Estate Crowdfunding Set to Top $2.5 Billion This Year
2015-03-03 23:44:55Entrepreneur Crowdfunding for real estate is already a billion-dollar industry, and it’s expected to more than double this year.Read More -
Industrial grit meets residential glass in Vancouver
2015-01-19 23:59:09The Globe and Mail Canada's first effort to combine industrial and residential space in a single building in an industrial…Read More
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