Tag: urban planning

• 80s Greenway Review

  

  Spoiler: it’s not great, and it’s even worse in context

  cityhikes

  July 4, 2025

  bike, highway, pedestrian access, portland, stroad, transit, urban planning

  bike, biking, brt, greenway, portland, transit, transportation, urban planning, urbanism, walking

• Portland’s Greenway Problem

  

  Or how the 2030 Bike Plan created our “greenway only” bike network

  cityhikes

  February 14, 2025

  bike, car culture, place, portland, urban planning

  access, bicycle, bike, bike lane, biking, city planning, commute, cycling, greenway, history, news, plan, portland, travel, urban planning

• 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

• 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

• Reflections On Car Free May

  

  What it’s like to completely reject the automobile for a month

  cityhikes

  June 3, 2023

  car culture, outdoors culture, pedestrian access, place, train, transit, urban planning, walk

  car culture, car free, car free living, hiking, pedestrian, portland, san francisco, transit, urban planning, urban walk, urbanism, walking

• High Capacity Transit In Portland

  

  What does that even mean?

  cityhikes

  February 13, 2023

  car culture, train, transit, trimet, urban planning

  brt, brt creep, bus rapid transit, car culture, high capacity transit, land use, metro, oregon, portland, transit, urban planning, urbanism

• Walking the 2040 Metro Plan

  

  An outline of some future walks

  cityhikes

  October 14, 2022

  neighborhood, pedestrian access, place, urban planning, urban renewal, walk

  car culture, gateway, hawthorne, land use, main street, metro, oregon, portland, urban planning, urbanism