The Quad Urbanist

So if you have read much about my own experience on this blog you'll know that I do a lot of bike commuting: for this I use two bikes, o...

 I think it's a critical element of transit infrastructure that it be visible. That doesn't mean it has to be big, hulking, and perm...

 I want to talk today about a very particular kind of urbanism, which I want to call "quasi-urbanism," that is getting more and mo...

 The Quad Cities do not have a bikeshare system, but many larger cities do, and it's often touted as a good solution for so-called last ...

A constant (or at least frequent ) pattern in Americans-who-go-to-Europe videos is the emphasis on how their grocery stores are different, a...

So the Quad Cities isn't a European capital London, Paris, or Madrid, but it also isn't a major US city like New York, Chicago, or D...

In college, I was technical director on a production of An Evening With Shel Silverstein , a surprisingly (?) raunchy production written by ...