John Hennessy III,
P.E.
What: NYC’s Highline Park, constructed on an unused elevated freight rail in the west side of Manhattan
Where: Manhattan’s West Side, between Gansevoort and West 34th Streets
When: The High Line first saw traffic in 1934, and the last train crossed its tracks in 1980. Construction on the park began in 2006, and the first section opened in 2009. Construction on additional sections is projected to continue through 2014.
What would a street feel like if it had room for all modes of transportation? In our first animated short in the Big Kids, Little City series, you’ll find out what Complete Streets is and how it can improve on the quality of life in your community.
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Bike Share has taken Manhattan by Storm. The bike share system with over 6000 bikes on Manhattan, and 10,000 system wide gets over 33,000 trips per day. On a chilly…not cold (25 degrees) December morning I wanted to try out the system to see how well it worked, and what riding in Manhattan was about. Check the short video to see what I found.
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PUBLIC POLICY FORUM
This report takes a fresh look at workforce mobility in metro Milwaukee by reconsidering the options that may exist to improve access to suburban job centers for those who cannot afford an automobile, or who otherwise cannot or opt not to use one. Our focus is on the four-county Milwaukee metropolitan statistical area, defined as Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Waukesha, and Washington counties. In exploring this topic, we acknowledge that the relocation of jobs to Milwaukee’s suburbs that has occurred during the past several decades is problematic on many levels, and that an ideal solution would be to encourage job growth in areas that already are well-served by transit. That is a long-term solution, however, and in the meantime there is merit in re-exploring potential transportation strategies that will better connect those seeking employment with areas where jobs currently are available.
MIT CENTER FOR ADVANCED URBANISM
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS
America is facing a health crisis that is weighing down this nation’s productivity, diminishing our quality of life, and driving up the cost of health care. The causes are complex and multifaceted. One contributing cause is thought to be a sedentary lifestyle. The way we move, or, more to the point, don’t move has coincided with an alarming increase in disease. Among our children, our nation’s future, one third suffers from obesity. We need a diet, a design diet.
Poor Boyz Productions takes street skiing to Detroit, Jib City.
Featuring the skiing of Karl Fostvedt, Khai Krepela, and Max Morello.
Filmed by Cody Carter, Jonny Durst, and Japser Newton.
Edited by Cody Carter and Jonny Durst.
NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Solving urban challenges has become the key to addressing global challenges. New York City has been a leader in creating new models for sustainable urban development in recent years, most visibly with the transformation of the city’s streets into more efficient and welcoming spaces that better accommodate all users. In tandem with these planning and engineering efforts, the New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) has developed a robust set of metrics to evaluate the outcomes of its projects with respect to the agency’s policy goals, both in the service of continually improving project designs and because the public increasingly expects such data-driven decision-making from government.
SPUR – San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association
The city of San Jose is critical to the future of the Bay Area. The Association of Bay Area Governments projects that San Jose will add more new residents in the coming decades than any other city in the region — more than San Francisco and Oakland combined. The shape of that growth is critically important to the sustainability, livability and economic vitality of the region. San Jose faces a particular set of challenges — shared by many American cities — around how to retool environments built for the automobile for a future that better supports walking, cycling and transit.
Los Angeles, the world’s prototypical automobile city, is transforming into a multi-modal metropolis.
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SIGHTLINE INSTITUTE
An analysis of 23 recently completed Seattle-area multifamily housing developments reveals that the practice of providing abundant “cheap” parking actually makes rental housing more expensive—particularly for tenants with modest incomes and who don’t own cars.
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