Author: SCM

For all of you who are passionate about inventive grassroots activities, there’s a publication that you’ll enjoy.  It’s Tactical Urbanism. It’s bound to get your creative juices flowing and spark ideas of...

By Michael Lewyn: After reading Rand McNally and numerous other “livable city” ratings, I decided to create my own. But this is a livable city guide with a difference: one that answers the simple question...

From Autopia: Many things come to mind when you think about transportation: Traffic, congestion, mass transit and the cost of fuel, to name a few. You might also think about the economy, urban planning and the environment. Yet...

We’re sure it’s staged, but it’s still fun…...

From The Guardian: Urban acupuncture favours a localised and community approach to urban renewal projects. Photograph: Jon Feingersh/Getty Images/Blend Images RR Around the world, mass migration from the countryside to cities...

From the City Fix:   São Paulo makes it convenient for people to park their bikes and transfer to rail. Photo via ASCOBIKE.  In 2001 Adilson Alcantara, manager of the Mauá CPTM (Companhia Paulista de Trens...

From Jonathan Fields blog: When life gets overwhelming, it’s tempting to divide it into manageable buckets. We talk about things like our work life and our home life as though we can somehow slip out of our skin and assume...

From the The Black Urbanist: Recently the national-award winning, Duany Plater-Zybek designed community of Southside in Greensboro lost a key tenant, Vintage 301. Outside of Manny’s Universal Café, this was the only restaurant...

From Governing: By Stephen Goldsmith Stephen Goldsmith is deputy mayor of operations for the City of New York. Last week, an important event occurred that could dramatically reshape the face of municipal reform. Bloomberg...