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Urban[ism] Legend: Traffic Planning


Mathieu Helie at Emergent Urbanism posted a link to a interesting game created at the University of Minnesota. Mathieu explains it better than I can:

The game begins in the Stalinian Central Bureau of Traffic Control, where a wrinkly old man pulls you out of your job at the mail room to come [...]

Carroll Gardens, Choose Only One: Setback or Height Restriction?


NY Times – Carroll Gardens: The Big Front Yards That Rob the Streets

Although the yards serve as leafy margins to the streets, creating ample open space between the rows of brownstones arrayed on either side, they also put those streets into the “wide” category for zoning purposes. This means developers can [...]