Traveling in Europe recently made me realize something interesting about American cities: We’ve tried to combine the country with the city with disastrous results. America wanted to have it all with no limits. Open space. Fast traffic. Big yards. Highways. Quiet neighborhoods. Lots of stores […]
Donald Appleyard’s Livable Streets
Updates on Car Free America may be a bit sporadic for the next couple of months. I’ll be working on a book tentatively titled “Human Speed” which will chronicle my time living car free and the city planning lessons I learned from the experience. It […]
Improving Dallas Through Small Things
I’m a big fan of the Polis blog. I haven’t found any other collaborative blog that touches on so many interesting global planning and development issues. An article in their archive compared universal social policies with targeted programs. Should education, health care, and other human […]