Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Suburbia

New Report Puts a Price on Suburbia and Rental Housing in One U.S. City

By Elana Schor | Apr 13, 2010 | No Comments

How much various Boston area neighborhoods are spending on total household transport and housing bills. (Graphic: Center for Neighborhood Technology) Boston mayor Thomas Menino joined Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-MA) today for the release of a new Urban Land Institute (ULI) report that maps the combined housing and transportation burden of living in the metro area’s […]

Stadium Backers Ready for Some Football. Right Now. This Minute.

By Damien Newton | Sep 10, 2009 | 5 Comments

Billionaire Ed Roski seems bound and determined to give those people opposed to the construction of a new stadium to lure an NFL team back to Greater Los Angeles plenty of cause for concern. Recently, Roski’s lobbyists have been pushing Sacramento law makers to grant exemptions from environmental and planning requirements for his mega-stadium project […]

New Video Series Tells the Story of Sprawl

By Brad Aaron | Apr 21, 2009 | No Comments

As livable streets advocates work to make headway in breaking the cycle of American auto dependence, the folks at Planetizen have put together a video narrative that explains how we got here. "The Story of Sprawl," a double DVD set produced by Managing Editor Tim Halbur, is a compilation of historical films dating from 1939 […]

Reaching Across the Urban-Suburban Divide

By Sarah Goodyear | Apr 14, 2009 | 1 Comment

As today’s post from Seattle Transit Blog acknowledges, criticizing the place where someone lives is one of the surest ways to create division and contention when discussing planning issues: Photo by yuan2003 via Flickr. If I criticize a portion of Bellevue’s cul-de-sac development, a commenter is just as likely to deride my urban elitism as […]

Fantasy Football: Design the New Stadium’s Transportation Plan

By Damien Newton | Feb 27, 2009 | 13 Comments

Yesterday, news broke that the City of Industry City Council unanimously voted to approve a plan to construct a new stadium to try and entice the Bills from Buffallo or the Raiders from Oakland. Putting aside any arguments about whether this is a good idea, because it clearly isnt’, I thought it could create a […]

Sprawlsville Steps Back From the Edge

By Ben Fried | Dec 12, 2008 | 2 Comments

A section of Tysons Corner slated for infill development. Image: Fairfax County/PB PlaceMaking [PDF] Last week the Federal Transit Administration finally approved the Silver Line, a long-awaited addition to the capital region’s transit system that will extend to suburbs in northern Virginia. There are still a few hoops to jump through to secure the necessary […]

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