The L.A. Times featured this terrific review of NYC Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan’s keynote remarks at last week’s L.A. StreetSummit at Occidental College.

Janette, who is responsible for 6,000 miles of streets and highways, nearly 800 bridges, 1.3 million street signs, 300,000 streetlights and 12,000 signalized intersections, told the…

I love everything about this story in New York Magazine on Janette Sadik-Khan, New York City's Transportation commissioner, who is transforming big chunks of Broadway into pedestrian spaces.  Borrowing ideas from Copenhagen and cities around the world, Sadik-Khan has a vision of turning the great diagonal into a linear…

Like all South African cities, Cape Town is a city with a complicated history.  But the city’s natural setting is breathtaking.  Its central district declined along with most other cities, but, under the leadership of Andrew Boraine, Chief Executive of the Cape Town Partnership and former city manager, it…

Mayor Bloomberg, in cooperation with three business improvement districts, is taking a bold step toward making New York City more pedestrian and bike friendly.  The plan is to take a section of Broadway in Midtown and reduce traffic lanes from four to two, opening up space for bike lanes and…

Local Innovators at Strategy Session 2010 

Download these Harvard case studies on the public-private partnerships developed by NYC Parks & Recreation Commissioner Adrian Benepe to strengthen the city's parks. Then ask Adrian how your city can do the same. He’ll be…