Fiscal Impact Tools
Fiscal impact tools are emerging across the nation and changing the dialog around local and regional planning. Jurisdictions now have a number…
The Missing Metric
With the multiple crises of municipal insolvency, climate change and citizen pushback against government regulation at all levels; it makes sense to…
Why Build Near Transit?
Transit stops are not just places for riders to get on and off the bus or train. In recent years communities all…
Ten Keys To Walkable/Livable Communities
The following ten items are key indicators (measures) or steps taken to achieve prosperous, walkable, healthy, livable communities. (more…)
Shaping the Tools of Re-Invention
A community’s civic infrastructure is just as important as its physical infrastructure. How we involve the men and women, seniors and children,…
Energy and the Human Environment
Introduction Energy costs are eating up an ever-increasing percentage of the family income today. Home utility bills are doubling and tripling. The…
Development And Public Health
A nostalgic view of American cities suggests they were once designed for and accommodated people. In that bygone era, public places, local…
Building Livable Communities With Transit
Livable communities are hot. In a speech on January 11, 1999, Vice President Gore unveiled the Administration’s Livability Agenda while announcing a…
The Ahwahnee Principles
Cities everywhere are facing similar problems – increasing traffic congestion and worsening air pollution, the continuing loss of open space, the need…