The Quad Urbanist

For this Christmas Eve, I'm thinking about how travel takes effort. Not just physical effort, but mental: you gotta figure out how to go...

Look, here in Iowa we've had our share and more than our share of cold and snow already this fall-winter (it's not technically winte...

  This excellent post on how trams and tramways can be built well or badly made me think more broadly about the significance of both optimi...

This post  made me want to talk about how we conceive of space. It's about Seattle (and really, Washington State) getting a legal space ...

  This article about Seattle's trolleybuses made me feel some feelings, since I grew up in Seattle taking trolleybuses fairly frequentl...

 In response to this article about how Brussels' pedestrianized zone is now needing to (or at least choosing to) restrict bikes, becaus...

I recently had the opportunity to go back to Milwaukee without my family in tow, which slightly expanded the scope of how much of it I could...