Author: SCM

By Brent Toderian, Planning Director for Vancouver, Canada: For the complete post, click here. It’s likely that we just know there’s a lot more to livability than the rankings include. To elaborate, an anecdote. Last...

From StreetsBlog: How many times have you heard this line: Young people prefer urban living. Of course, everyone acknowledges, this isn’t a universal preference. But a clear generational shift away from suburban lifestyles is...

By Robert Reich   Maine Governor Paul LePage has ordered state workers to remove from the state labor department a 36-foot mural depicting the state’s labor history. Among other things the mural illustrates the 1937...

By Sam Pizzigati at Campaign for America’s Future: Apologists for inequality have an all-purpose defense for our desperately unequal status quo. We live in an unequal society, they pronounce, because Americans don’t really...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Traffic engineers have called the shots for decades on the planning of public space in downtown Cleveland. Mayor Frank Jackson’s Group Plan Commission wants parity for pedestrians — if not the upper...

From Web Urbanist: When more living space is needed in cramped urban conditions where every last square foot of land is spoken for, there’s literally nowhere to go but up. Luckily, flat city rooftops offer the ideal space for...

The following column is by longtime urban commentator Neal Peirce: The budget imbroglio seizing Congress (and most state legislatures) throws an ominous shadow over America’s cities and towns — and their people. It’s time for...

This commentary was posted recently to a blog of Education Week: Teachers have long maintained that they can’t do their job if students don’t do theirs. But their complaint has largely fallen on deaf ears until...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (March 16, 2011) – Gwyn R. Fisher, the Executive Director of MPACT Memphis, has been selected to participate in the Brussels Forum March 25-27, 2011 and to represent the British Council Transatlantic Network 2020...