Entries tagged with Connectivity
Toward Car-Free Cities
September 29, 2011
Thanks to This Big City for posting this charming video courtesy of the Toward Carfree Cities X Conference earlier this month in Guadalajara.
Zipcar Increases Urban Quality of Life
July 20, 2011
CEOs for Cities' Connectivity Challenge brought together urban leaders to discuss ways to build cities that are not dependent on cars. This past weekend, Los Angeles tried out car-free living in real-time. Thanks to construction work that shut down the 405 freeway, residents of Los Angeles had to spend the weekend…
Bicycle Infrastructure is Economically Sound
July 11, 2011
The CEOs for Cities' Connectivity Challenge convened national leaders in Chicago to discuss ways to create communities where a car is not a necessity. There, participants focused on the value of alternative transportation in vibrant cities. A recent report by the Political Economy Research Institute at the University…
Urban Mobility Report: Not Even the Title Gets it Right
June 16, 2011
NACTO Releases Guide for Better Bikeways
March 18, 2011
One of the key recommendations from the US Initiative Connectivity Challenge Report focused on the importance of incorporating bikes in the city planning process. The recent rise in gas prices makes alternative transportation options all the more important. In an effort to increase multi-modal transportation use in urban areas, the…
Getting Around Must Be Smarter
December 17, 2010
Reacting to Monday's article in the Tennessean about Driven Apart, CEOs for Cities' critique of the Texas Transportation Institute's Urban Mobility Report, the Daily News Journal published "Getting around must be smarter," an editorial calling for Rutherford County to "get serious about mass transit solutions and…
Nashville MPO Responds to Driven Apart
December 13, 2010
Driven Apart, the report released this fall by CEOs for Cities funded by The Rockefeller Foundation that identifies sprawl as the culprit behind more time spent in traffic, continues to get attention — this time in the Nashville Tennessean.
The sprawling nature of the Nashville area requires…
It's Geekalicious
November 16, 2010
That's what Sightline called our latest report, Driven Apart.
Sightline recognized the report as a breakthrough that challenges conventional wisdom on congestion and its measurement.
"For decades, we've been hearing that congestion is getting worse and worse, and that traffic backups are taking a bigger and bigger bite…
The Grocery Loop
October 5, 2010
Meeting our daily needs without owning a car means being able to walk, bike or take public transportation to get to work, see friends, run errands and even buy groceries. Unfortunately, high quality grocery stores are hard to come by in many urban neighborhoods, forcing even the most reticent among…
Citizens Acting Like Citizens
June 9, 2010
Kudos to Chicago Transit Authority. CTA invited citizens to "adopt a station," and they responded by painting L stations. Bryn Mawr and Granville on the Red Line got the makeovers. Let's hope we see lots more of this as city budgets continue to be pinched in these tough times. …
A New American Dream
May 7, 2010
The Great Reset, Richard Florida's latest book, takes on the fundamental ways of American life that are no longer sustainable. Namely, he believes (and we agree) that as a country, we went overboard with the push for every American to own a home.
A better balance of rental housing…
New Demand for Cities
March 10, 2010
Our President and CEO Carol Coletta was in Dallas this week where she spoke of the shift in housing demands away from suburbia at the 11th annual meeting of the North Texas Housing Coalition. The leaders of the new economy – the young, college-educated and highly mobile members of…