A notable new title about Los Angeles’ struggles with oil drilling, air pollution, flooding, and water and power supplies exposes the clout business has had
Last year, author and Georgia Tech professor Ellen Dunham-Jones spoke to an Atlanta audience on the topic of “retrofitting suburbia,” delivering a riveting 20-minute TED Talk, one
What will happen as gasoline prices steadily climb even higher? At $6 a gallon, Americans will begin embracing diesel engines. At $8, many airlines will shut down, leaving
It’s Social Media Week here in Los Angeles. This global platform for conversation, collaboration and learning connects hundreds of thousands of people in different cities
The Institute Of Transportation Studies’ Center For Urban Infrastructure at UC Irvine released its Thinking Ahead: High-Speed Rail In Southern California (31p. PDF) report last
Gridlock: Why We’re Stuck In Traffic And What To Do About It by Randal O’Toole (Washington, D.C. : Cato Institute, 2009) “O’Toole’s Gridlock is a
Brigham Young University plugs their library service by capturing potential users’ attention through a parody of the popular Old Spice commercials, via YouTube An old
We want to periodically highlight current transportation and transit research that is particularly useful or timely. Several new reports were issued recently that caught our
Image via Information Aesthetics We recently highlighted The Museum of London’s efforts to create an augmented reality iPhone app from a set of geotagged images
Image via Sunday Streets SF In just a couple of months, Los Angeles will begin an experiment with temporary street closure of streets for CicLAvia