Urban Planning

Here Are The Nine Steps for Making a Better City

Shelley Poticha, director of NRDC's urban solutions program, offers her rules for what it takes to make cities green, pleasant and walkable.

Memo to Cities: Most Cyclists Aren’t Urban Hipsters

There’s a prevailing stereotype of cyclists as upwardly mobile urbanites who use bikes by choice. But what about the working poor who bike because it’s all they can afford?

Why Achieving L.A.’s Ambitious Transportation Plan is Far from Certain

The city’s new mobility plan is ambitious, but whether it ever becomes a reality remains an open question.

Houston Has a Plan. Now What?

Ryan Holeywell | October 7, 2015 Following a process that took more than a year, the city approved an outline of its goals. Now the real work starts.

What Copenhagen and Houston Tell Us About How “Trust” Affects Cities

You’d be hard pressed to find two Western cities that are more different than Houston and Copenhagen. The reason for that may have something to with the idea of trust.