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The relationship between land use and transportation sounds like a geeky topic.  The twins of land use and transportation usually enter our mind as separate subjects: either as transportation or as land use. Likely we would use more tangible terms such as "traffic" in the context ofcongestion or development,or when another forest is cut down for a subdivision. We see no utility to connect the two, so it is only logical that solutions would come separately, too. Too much traffic? Build more or wider roads! New people coming to a region? Build more houses! We may not always like those solutions, but there seems little that could be done about it, right?  Feedback loop diagram (source: J ean-Paul Rodrigue, Routledge 2013) If modern economics began with Adam Smith, modern location economics began with Von Thunen (1826). He was the first to develop a basic analytical model of the relationships between markets, production, and distance.  THE GEOGRAPHY OF TRANSPORT SYSTEMS. There is

The Recipe for a Comeback Neighborhood Each Mayor and city council would like to have access to a secret recipe that would wake up lackluster communities and neighborhoods from slumber and decline and turn them around so they become pleasant places that generate taxes and have happy residents. Something like this:   "Take one fresh, vibrant anchor institution and an equally sized social justice organization and mix in a diverse set of stakeholders and stir for some time. Add a few Millennials, baby boomers and immigrants, a dose of starts-ups and let the mix simmer on low heat. Now add a catalyst and spice freely with bike paths, street-scaping and a whiff of greenery. For a note of experimental flavor add some galleries and art crawls, for a more savory traditional note use brew pubs and bar crawls instead. Decorate with a coffee shop, car share, bike share and a farmers market and voila, your comeback neighborhood is ready! Enjoy!" outdoor eating: an ingredient of come back

“…cultural diversity is as necessary for humankind as biodiversity is for nature (Art. 1) it is “one of the roots of development understood not simply in terms of economic growth, but also as a means to achieve a more satisfactory intellectual, emotional, moral and spiritual existence (Art. 3)”.  Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity (UNESCO, 2001) If Noah was the first human to understood biodiversity when he took "two of each" on his ark, America may be the first nation to understand and embrace the value of cultural diversity.  The country's once leading cities, New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore would never have attained their status without ship after ship delivering a steady stream of Poles, Russians, Lithuanians, Italians and Germans whose ethnic enclaves can be found to this day in churches, delis, meeting halls and festivals.   Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Baltimore From the current political discourse one wouldn’t know it, though. Political turmoil in seve

It was about 1977 when folks from the Department of Public Works of my Stuttgart Borough of Bad Cannstatt engaged in some tactical urbanism by nailing railroad ties to the pavement of some streets in my neighborhood. In just a few hours they had some streets converted in segments of opposing one way streets to curtail cut-through traffic, had created pinch-points to slow traffic and installed the first ever counter-flow bike lane in all of the State. Baffled residents and drivers who hadn't followed the months of public debate in the local council were consoled by the assurance that this was only a test. Should it not work out, those tiles would be removed after at the latest three months, or earlier, should something appear to be dangerous. Counterflow bicycle path in Bad Cannstatt, Germany Their experiments, though, never did lead to any out-of-the-ordinary traffic safety occurrence, and in fact, residents loved the newly more peaceful feel of the streets.  Some eight years later