Category: place

• Dreaming of a New SW Corridor

  

  What if we combined it with a high speed rail initiative?

  cityhikes

  July 9, 2024

  high speed rail, interurban, odot, place, portland, train, transit, trimet, urban planning

  high speed rail, land use, light rail, max, oregon, portland, railroad, sw corridor, trains, transit, transportation, travel, urbanism

• The Essen Haus is Closing

  

  And part of me will never be the same

  cityhikes

  July 7, 2024

  housing, madison, place, urban planning, wisconsin

  affordable housing, affordable-housing, city, development, essen haus, german, housing, land use, madison, neighborhood, real-estate, urbanism

• The Death and Life of Great American Interurbans

  

  How Cleveland, Ohio and Portland, Oregon represent the past and the future of mass transit in the US

  cityhikes

  June 17, 2024

  interurban, odot, place, portland, train, transit, trimet, urban planning

  city, cleveland, interurban, land use, portland, railroad, transit, transportation, travel, urbanism

• Sunday Parkways, Again

  

  Revisiting a beloved but underfunded open streets program to see if there’s more to be done

  cityhikes

  March 31, 2024

  bike, pedestrian access, place, portland, urban planning, walk

  bike-rides, ciclovia, cycling, infrastructure, open streets, pedestrian, portland, portland sunday parkways, streets, transportation, transportation policy, travel, urbanism, walking

• Staring Into The Void Of Zoning In Madison

  

  Does the West Area Plan go too far? Or not far enough?

  cityhikes

  March 27, 2024

  bike, neighborhood, pedestrian access, place, swimming, transit, urban planning, wisconsin

  affordable-housing, cities, city, city life, density, housing, land use, madison, transit, urban planning, urbanism, walking, wisconsin

• On Eurocentrism In Urbanism

  

  Good cities are part of the fundamental human experience, not just the European one

  cityhikes

  January 16, 2024

  place, transit, urban planning

  beijing, cities, city, eurocentrism, hangzhou, land use, los angeles, mexico city, native american history, public transit, tenochtitlan, teotihuacan, urban life, urbanism

• Chicago, My Beloved

  

  The city of the broad shoulders never disapoints

  cityhikes

  December 28, 2023

  chicago, place, radical history, train, transit, urban planning, walk

  amtrak, car culture, chicago, cta, land use, midwest, pilsen, railroad, rapid transit, transit, urbanism

• In Search of Los Angeles

  

  A long day looking for history, but finding other things instead.

  cityhikes

  December 13, 2023

  place, transit, urban renewal, walk

  bunker hill, california, car culture, city hike, city walk, elliott smith, guy lombardo, hollywood, la history, los angeles, pacific electric, public-transportation, transit, travel, urbanism, walking

• Winter Break Soon

  

  The term is ending, time to get back on the city hikes train

  cityhikes

  November 30, 2023

  car culture, place, train, transit, urban planning, walk

  charles mingus, chicago, coast starlight, flagstaff, land use, los angeles, pacific electric, railroad, santa fe, southern pacific, southwest chief, transit, urbanism

• Why You Should Get Groceries On Foot

  

  How being a pedestrian can fill your basic needs in more way than one

  cityhikes

  September 26, 2023

  pedestrian access, place, urban planning, walk

  basic needs, co-op, food deserts, grocery stores, oregon, pedestrian, portland, urbanism, walking