URBAN DESIGN: Urban beauty offers a competitive advantage
Indy needs to pay more attention to the role aesthetics play in drawing people and investment.
Urban Design column
URBAN DESIGN: Want to get to your destination faster? Slow down
Cities trying to slow down traffic are seeing numerous counter-intuitive benefits.
URBAN DESIGN: Ghosts, monsters haunt Market East district
The neighborhood that includes City Market, the Julia M. Carson Transit Center and numerous other assets is loaded with potential and entrenched obstacles.
URBAN DESIGN: Retrofitting obsolete retail areas represents opportunity
Numerous examples show how places like Castleton can be recast on a human scale.
URBAN DESIGN: One year in, scooters offer lessons from the streets
A century ago we were learning lessons from another disruptive technology that had people in an uproar: the automobile.
GALLAGHER: D.C. has much to emulate in sustainability efforts
The distinctive geometric grid of streets and avenues that define Washington, D.C., heavily influenced the original plat of Indianapolis. As we consider our city’s future, it may once again be time to look to the nation’s capital for inspiration.
Tom Gallagher: Urban character not limited to metro downtowns
Urban living means more than just locating in the downtown core of the biggest cities. What people are looking for is not a compromised blend of suburban and urban, but an urban condition scaled to their lifestyle.