An interesting piece on NPR today about how the web-based Uber taxi hailing service is making life easier for travelers … whether or not the vehicle happens to be licensed locally. This is very similar to the circumstances with Park at my House, which is available here but is probably a zoning violation. What’s a…

Tonight the first 15 minutes of All Things Considered was about our crumbling infrastructure, our unwillingness to pay for fixing/expanding it and the economic absurdity of this choice. I sort of feel like our society maxed out its credit cards for a week in Cancun, is now back home and hung over and has decided…

From a terrific podcast (“The Metabolism of Cities“) at Smart City, in which he argues for High Speed Rail and Light Rail (among other things) as ways to increase the velocity at which people, goods, services and idea move in cities and mega-regions.