Entries by Matt Bevilacqua | Next City
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Sounding Off on the Future of the Foreshore Freeways, Cape Town’s Unfinished Highway
What to do with a highway project that’s been standing incomplete since the 1970s?
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As Texas Goes for New Funding Sources for Highways, Some Advocates Want One Torn Down
What to do about Interstate 345, which cuts downtown Dallas off from eastern neighborhoods and is nearing the end of its lifespan?
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Handy Graphics Explain Parking Requirements in Dozens of Cities
An ongoing series of graphics deals with parking requirements in dozens of cities around the country.
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Graphic: Five Major Bike Share Systems, and Their Naysayers
As New York prepares itself for bike share, here’s some background info on five of the most popular systems in the country.
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Five Reasons Why Toronto Mayor Rob Ford May Have Smoked Crack Cocaine
What sober politician with his city’s best interests in mind would engage in the following?
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Chicago Considers Reining in the Pedicabs
An ordinance now on the table in Chicago would impose some of the strictest regulations on pedicabs proposed anywhere in recent months.
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North of Salt Lake City, a 21st-Century Highway Revolt
For years the Utah Department of Transportation has had a highway extension north of Salt Lake City in the works. But if resident advocacy and environmental groups had their way, UDOT would scrap the West Davis Corridor altogether.
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L.A.‘s Mid-Century Past May Be Sexy, But It’s Still the Past
California may be getting denser, but that doesn’t mean nostalgia for its storied car culture is going anywhere fast.
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Last Year’s Curbside Bus Crackdown Based on Faulty Evidence, Critics Say
Federal authorities shut down 26 curbside bus operators last year. Now, some critics say that the governmental report that inspired the crackdown relied on bad data.
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With Guns, 3D Printing Has Gone from Economic Antidote to Cyberpunk Nightmare
Many U.S. cities are excited by the promise of 3D printing to revive the moribund domestic manufacturing sector, but when an Austin non-profit last week successfully shot the world’s first 3D printed gun, urban leaders nationwide had to face new questions.
