[ Updated 6/14 .] I've devoted several posts to critiquing the way many contemporary developments have reintroduced the alley as a de...

I've put together three additional charts, correlating per capita highways, heavy rail and light rail with commuting transit share for a...

Note: Updated 5/29 with an expanded list of cities.  This has slightly weakened each of the correlations. I've posted on density-rela...

Back in 2010, Nathan Lewis published what is one of the few pro-urban critiques of transportational bicycling available on the net. In the ...

If you were a developer operating in a city without zoning or height limits and, for whatever reason, wanted to devise a project sure to tur...

It seems that market-based approaches to increasing housing affordability are at last getting widespread attention.  Between Ed Glaeser'...

In the comments to the previous post, Nicolas Derome linked to an interesting residential development outside Toronto (very close to a major...