Like its culinary counterpart, the McMansion provides excellent value for its price. American homebuilders are perhaps the best in the world when it comes to providing buyers with the private realm. The problem is that most suburban residents, the minute they leave this refuge, are confronted by a tawdry and stressful environment. Americans may have the finest private realm in the developed world, but our public realm is brutal.










Since announcing its plan in August to develop a downtown bike station—a facility offering a combination of secure bike parking, showers and lockers for those choosing to commute by bicycle—nonprofit group ClevelandBikes has been working on concepts. 