Urban Travel, Sustainability & Accessibility

FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES AND OTHERS  WHO FACE CONSTANT   BARRIERS For more than a decade, downtown Miami has been a living hell for peop...

CITY IGNORES CENTURY-OLD SIMPLE SCAFFOLDING THAT COULD KEEP SIDEWALKS OPEN AND SAFE DURING CONSTRUCTION How is it that the bankrupt Clevelan...

TO A SHAMEFUL LEVEL UNAMATCHED BY ANY CITY ON EARTH Wheelchair access is destroyed in the heart of Miami — a block of NE 1st Ave. south of...

A VISITING PLANNER IS SHOCKED BY LACK OF WHEELCHAIR ACCESS I met a well-known urban planner at downtown Miami’s Brightline Station. She wa...

CELEBRATING 1.5 MILLION BLOG READERS My blog started out humbly, more than a decade ago.   Today, it has had more than 1.5 million uni...

VISITORS ARE APPALLED AT THE MISSING, BROKEN AND BLOCKED SIDEWALKS THROUGHOUT GREATER MIAMI OUR LEADERS SHOULD BE ASHAMED Miami’s endless as...

THE ESSENTIAL TOOL FOR INTERGENERATIONAL COMMUNITIES REALTORS® understand the importance of Universal Design. In Illinois, the Heartland REA...

THE ESSENTIAL TOOL FOR INTERGENERATIONAL COMMUNITIES More aggressive policing of blocked sidewalks and bike lanes is a simple policy change....

THE ESSENTIAL TOOL FOR INTERGENERATIONAL COMMUNITIES In less dense cities, the problem often is a lack of accessible/protected-from-the-elem...

THE ESSENTIAL TOOL FOR INTERGENERATIONAL COMMUNITIES Transit must be frequent and accessible. Author Anna Zivarts’ research has proven tha...

THE ESSENTIAL TOOL FOR INTERGENERATIONAL COMMUNITIES When it comes to housing, less than one percent of it is move-in ready for a wheelchair...

THE ESSENTIAL TOOL FOR INTERGENERATIONAL COMMUNITIES The late architect, planner and leader Ron Mace created Universal Design as an approach...

  WITH THE OHIO REALTORS THIS MONTH I've contributed Universal Design expertise to the National Association of REALTORS for 20+ years. ...

ACCESS FOR ALL GUIDE TO LISBON Steep topography, narrow winding alleys, centuries old buildings, historic trams -- the very things that make...

TRUTH If a city -- large, medium or small -- cannot fix, maintain and patrol its sidewalks (the most basic, inexpensive, democratic mea...

TRUTH You are a planner/urban designer/transport engineer/architect claiming to make a healthy impact on society.  But you steadfastly...

TRUTH Disability is everywhere in nature. Should we fill in a waterfall because the river is "broken?"  Should we ceme...

TRUTH I have NEVER (thank goodness) heard a city manager or elected official dare to say "we can't do this because the damn...

TRUTH We would be ashamed to say "you're competent..despite your race, religion, orientation, gender..."  But bigote...

WITH A DOZEN DAYS OF RANTS ABOUT DISCRIMINATION I have been saying for a quarter century that Urban Design is broken.  Too many of i...