Tag: land use

• Public Transit and Rural Places

  

  How American ideas of rural land cripple rural transit, and why we need to fix it

  cityhikes

  February 25, 2025

  europe, intercity bus, small town, society, train, transit, urban planning

  agriculture, history, land use, news, oregon, post bus, public transit, public transportation, railroad, regional planning, rural land, sustainability, switzerland, transit, travel, urbanism

• The Heat Death of BRT

  

  Or how we’re learning the wrong lessons from the FX2

  cityhikes

  February 5, 2025

  car culture, neighborhood, portland, transit, trimet, urban planning

  brt, bus, bus rapid transit, fta, fx, land use, lugano, portland, public-transportation, san francisco, switzerland, transit, transportation, travel, trimet, urban planning, urbanism, van ness

• Natural Disasters, Redlining, and The Future

  

  And the perils of disaster response in a winner takes all system

  cityhikes

  January 20, 2025

  disaster, los angeles, segregation, urban planning, urban renewal

  climate, climate-change, disaster planning, disaster response, environment, fire, hazard, hazard zoning, housing, land use, los angeles, natural disaster, news, planning, southern california, urbanism

• Unpacking the Backpacking Pack

  

  Pondering nature, Indian removal, and what it all means in my life

  cityhikes

  October 22, 2024

  outdoors culture, place, society, train, transit, walk

  adventure, amtrak, backpacking, environmentalism, glacier national park, hiking, land use, national parks, national parks service, native american history, nature, nps, railroad, travel, walking

• Ampacking Glacier National Park

  

  Sure, you can take Amtrak to Glacier, but should you? (yes)

  cityhikes

  September 24, 2024

  car culture, outdoors culture, pedestrian access, small town, train, transit, urban planning

  amtrak, car culture, glacier, glacier national park, glacier np, hiking, land use, montana, national parks, railroad, transit, travel, urbanism, walking

• On the Need For Social Change

  

  It’s not enough to fund transit, we also need to change society

  cityhikes

  August 28, 2024

  car culture, highway, interurban, odot, place, portland, society, train, transit, trimet, urban planning

  car culture, land use, new york city, oregon, portland, public transit, transit, tube map, urbanism

• Is London Worth a Visit?

  

  Yes, even if you just see St. Pancras

  cityhikes

  August 3, 2024

  europe, place, train, transit, urban planning

  englad, land use, london, railroad, surrey, transit, travel, uk, urbanism, woking

• 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