infrastructure

Putting a lid on the Downtown Connector at the Urban Labs luncheon

Talk about power lunching. At yesterday's Urban Labs lunch, at St. Luke's Church, a few minutes' walk from the Hilton, those of us at Table 1-A finished off our box lunches and then within about an hour sketched out a possible solution to a vexing problem of downtown Atlanta - the Downtown Connector... read more »

Interchanges as Civic Sculpture?

Did Phil Patton get off on the wrong ramp and miss the discussion over the past 20 or so years? ... read more »

Sensible Ideas from the Right on How Smart Growth and New Urbanism Save Taxpayers Money

Examples such as Reconnecting America's Conservatives and Public Transit by Robert Weyrich and Bill Lind aside, there's been a ... read more »

Sound Stimulus: How Congress Can Find and Fund the Roads that Reduce Our Oil Addiction and Improve Our Quality of Life

With input from the incoming Obama Administration, Congress is now building a stimulus bill that will likely result in the largest investment in U.S. ... read more »