Marc Lefkowitz |
03/21/17 @ 11:00am | Posted in Transportation
With transit holding steady and cycling surging, cities find themselves in an interesting position. They’d like to encourage more of this kind of “mode shift”—but how? Inevitably, the stickiest of all wickets is parking.
Cities large and small are being advised to place parking within a larger conversation. Like Cleveland’s University Circle district, which conducted a detailed parking study in coordination...
Marc Lefkowitz |
03/10/17 @ 12:00pm | Posted in Transit, Vibrant cities
A healthy debate is swirling around Northeast Ohio's “spatial mismatch” between people seeking work and the employment centers where jobs are moving.
The debate centers on the role of transit to connect households in Cleveland’s urban core—up to 40% of which are car free—to jobs that are increasingly moving out to the periphery of the metropolitan area.
Marc Lefkowitz |
03/03/17 @ 4:00pm | Posted in Climate
When Yale University started its Program on Climate Change Communication in 2008, sentiment on climate change was running high. Of the 18,000 individuals polled, 71% said they believed it was happening.
Marc Lefkowitz |
02/17/17 @ 10:00am | Posted in Transform
Today we participate in the #DayofFacts—a national campaign started by two museum professionals concerned about forces that have questioned the fact-finding nature of science.
In their statement on why they are joining 200 museums and science-based institutions in posting facts derived from scientific inquiry, The Newbury Library writes:
“We hope to engage in a dialogue on what counts as a fact and...
Marc Lefkowitz |
02/13/17 @ 9:00am | Posted in Transit, Vibrant cities
Cities that are jumping on transit are glad they did. Transit attracts "environmentally conscious, outgoing people, largely in their 30s and 40s, who are open to taking transit but find the service inconvenient or inadequate," a 2014 national poll found. "Policymakers and transit providers could most easily increase transit ridership by focusing on this group."
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