The Quad Urbanist

For a variety of reasons, not the least of which is that I still go places on foot, I have been thinking about sidewalks again. I recently r...

Sometimes on this blog I will treat metros as one thing: the existence or absence of one standing in for a certain kind of urban infrastruct...

 A perhaps somewhat strange thing that I like to do when I go to a new city--or even a new stop on a train line--or even an old city that I...

We hear a lot that autonomous cars are the future. And there are distinct ways in which autonomous cars would improve the current car situat...

In the UK they don't call intercity buses buses, they call them coaches, which is a really useful term of distinction I'm going to a...

 Vancouver is improving their bus network . The key elements are these: more frequent services across more of the city, and particularly fil...

I was recently watching the National Theatre production of The Importance of Being Earnest  (on YouTube) and was reminded of one of my favor...