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How Do You Map the Character of a City? A New Tool Offers Solutions

By Kinder Institute | Dec 15, 2016 | No Comments

members of the National Trust’s Preservation Green Lab team have developed a concept they call a community’s “Character Score.” They are now using the recently launched Atlas of ReUrbanism to map that score to the streets of 50 major cities across America.

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New Report Urges More Sidewalks, Less Parking in Houston

By Leah Binkovitz | Nov 29, 2016 | No Comments

More than a third of the people who want to live in an urban neighborhood in Harris County said they don’t currently live there, based on the survey’s findings. One thing that’s responsible for the gap? A lack of suitable sidewalks.

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Do Atlanta Residents Value Transit More Than Houstonians?

By Kinder Institute | Nov 2, 2016 | No Comments

Ryan Holeywell | October 28, 2016 Houstonians and Atlantans alike are frustrated by traffic. How they want to address it is a different matter.

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When Will Mayor Turner Let the Houston Bike Plan Move Forward?

By Jay Blazek Crossley | Oct 28, 2016 | No Comments

Earlier this week, BikeHouston held a traveling pep rally to call on Mayor Sylvester Turner to move forward with the Houston Bike Plan. After the rally, Turner said he would proceed with the bike plan but did not provide a timetable. The bike plan maps out an ambitious citywide network of safe, comfortable bikeways, including integration with the off-street bike trails in the Bayou […]

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Can Police Departments Get on Board with #CrashNotAccident?

By Jay Blazek Crossley | Oct 14, 2016 | 1 Comment

Words matter. But when we talk about traffic deaths and injuries, too often we slip into language that obscures how preventable these tragedies are. Referring to them as “accidents” connotes a lack of human agency, as though no one was at fault and the crash could not have been avoided. Instead of examining how the […]

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What Makes a Great City? Great Public Spaces. And These 6 Rules

By Kinder Institute | Oct 3, 2016 | No Comments

Ryan Holeywell | October 3, 2016 A new book explains the six steps needed to create amazing spaces.

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