Tag: 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

• Please Stop Making Pedestrians Beg

  

  Ranting about RRFBs and “Crosswalk Closed” signs

  cityhikes

  June 19, 2024

  pedestrian access, portland, urban planning, walk

  car culture, mutcd, news, oregon, pedestrian, pedestrian dignity, pedestrian-safety, portland, rrfb, safety, traffic, traffic-safety, urbanism, walkability, walking

• 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

• Thoughts On Groceries, Again

  

  Why doesn’t anyone think about walking to the grocery store?

  cityhikes

  June 5, 2024

  grocery stores, pedestrian access, portland, society

  grocery stores, land use, oregon, portland, transit, urbanism, walking

• 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

• The Suburbanization of Swimming

  

  A ramble about swimming, the suburbs, and what it all means to me

  cityhikes

  February 29, 2024

  car culture, neighborhood, portland, swimming

  health, land use, planning, portland, racism, sports, suburbia, suburbs, swim, swimming, urbanism, wellness

• Oregon High Speed Rail – Branching Out

  

  Little projects go a long way when you’re connecting to a high speed trunk

  cityhikes

  February 12, 2024

  highway, odot, train, transit, urban planning

  corvallis, eugene, high speed rail, hillsboro, mcminnville, newberg, oregon, oregon high speed rail, portland, railroad, salem, transit, urbanism, willamette valley

• Oregon High Speed Rail – The Valley

  

  Would you rather have a train to Eugene in less than an hour or one freeway expansion project?

  cityhikes

  February 6, 2024

  high speed rail, interurban, odot, train, transit, urban planning

  amtrak, cascades, high speed rail, oregon, oregon electric, portland, railroad, southern pacific, transit, urbanism

• A Tale of One Bus Route

  

  The changes to the 17 are bad, but there’s time to stop them

  cityhikes

  January 27, 2024

  lower albina, pedestrian access, transit, trimet, urban planning

  bus, land use, lower albina, oregon, portland, transit, trimet, urbanism