Transportation The City May Actually Do the Right Thing With Its New Electric Scooters By Peter Simek | 1 day ago Dallas police tell the City Council that scooters don't pose much of a safety concern. The council should now allow them permanently.
Urbanism What Is Excessive Parking Costing Cities? By Peter Simek | 1 month ago A new study attempts to quantify the glut of parking facilities in American cities.
Urbanism Why Dallas Lags Behind the New Urban Renaissance By Peter Simek | 2 months ago Despite Dallas’ long-held dreams of civic grandeur, the region has evolved into a place defined by what architect Andrés Duany describes as “the gravity of mediocrity."
Urbanism New Census Population Data Shows a Return to Cities By Matt Goodman | 3 months ago The suburbs are still growing faster, but cities are beginning to attract people in mass.
Urbanism Why Don’t Dallas’ Downtown Parks Have Basketball Courts? By Peter Simek | 4 months ago A handful of new parks are planned for downtown Dallas. Klyde Warren aside, the mixed quality of city center's current parks do not guarantee success.
Good Public Transit Here’s More Evidence that Dallas Is Overdue for a Bus System Overhaul By Peter Simek | 5 months ago Houston is one of two cities in the nation that posted increased bus ridership in 2017, a result of its redesigned system.
Trinity River Brent Brown Steps Down From bcWorkshop to Head Trinity Park Conservancy By Peter Simek | 6 months ago The architect, city planner, and urban designer will lead the effort to implement the Michael van Valkenburgh plan for the Trinity River
Urban Design Yelp Study Illustrates How Urban Sprawl Contributes to Bad Eating By Peter Simek | 6 months ago No big surprises here: car-centric cities deliver on car-centric food choices
Urbanism It Is Too Soon to Regulate Dallas’ Bike Share Companies By Peter Simek | 7 months ago Rather than creating clutter, the companies have simply—and somewhat unwittingly—revealed flaws in human behavior and urban design.
Nonprofits The Goatherd and the Mexican Mafia By Kathy Wise | 7 months ago A story of love, loss, and redemption of Biblical proportions.
Agrarianism The Rogue Shepherd By Kathy Wise | 7 months ago After his first wife’s death, Daron Babcock started picking bar fights and snorting rails of coke. Then he did something even crazier. He started a farm in South Dallas.
Urbanism There Sure Are A Lot of Specials on Uptown’s Expensive Apartment Stock By Jon Anderson | 9 months ago It's a sign that the high-end towers that populate the McKinney Avenue corridor aren't renting. It's not a demand issue; it's price.
