cities
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Walk Score gets some new street smarts
The online tool for gauging a neighborhood's walkability previews an enhanced version that factors in the obstacles you might encounter while on foot.
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Newark Mayor Cory Booker uses Twitter and references Camus in a single bound
Cory Booker has proven he can use social media, shovel snow, and throw around fancy French philosophy.
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If you're so happy in your car, why are you so mad at the people walking?
Next time you're driving, remember that pedestrians aren't trying to annoy you. They're trying to get across the street without getting killed -- and a lot of the time, the street isn't designed for them.
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The soul of a city is in its people
We've got to figure out how to make our cities more livable and sustainable without triggering the seemingly inevitable march of gentrification.
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‘Portlandia’ skewers your urban green lifestyle
Bikers, locavores, and just plain urbanites, quake in fear: Your lives are no longer safe from actually-funny satire.
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China's biggest cities grow its greenest citizens
People in large Chinese cities are more environmentally aware -- and more likely to act on that awareness -- than those in smaller cities.
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Millennials not looking for McMansions (unless they have to move back in with the parents)
Will Generation Y choose to live in smaller spaces and more walkable communities than their parents did?
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Walmart wants a piece of New York City
Walmart has so far been shut out of the Big Apple. Now they're back, using a fancy new PR campaign with all the social-media bells and whistles.
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A failure to communicate: Urbanists should accentuate the positive
Urbanists prattle on about sustainability as if the economic meltdown of the last few years didn't even happen. No wonder it's not working.
