In a recent article/blog from August 2013, the city of Dallas claims to begin working to "ease traffic congestion". We can only hope! Every day, no matter what time, there is always at least one back up somewhere in the city.  Starting in October, transportation officials were supposedly going to introduce something called "Integrated Corridor Management (ICM) on highway 75.  The officials claimed that drivers will receive a more "reliable trip with less congestion".  I have to say as a…

This is the neatest website I have ever come across in my research on city planning and development.  The website is called plaNYC 2030.  There are all kinds of different links and plans shown to the reader about the goals for city life in New York by the year 2030.  When I clicked on the link that lead to housing and Neighborhoods, it gave the number nine million.  In 2030, there will be more than that many people living in New York City.  That absolutely blows my mind! How in the world can…

I was looking through an article posted by the Dallas Morning News dealing with the Bishop Arts District and how crucial it is to the life of all types of Dallas residents. In the post it says, "In a city that lacks enough public spaces for Dallas' salad bowl of peoples to gather, the district is a wonderful exception."  I think this is really interesting because I have lived in Dallas all my life.  While I am in a great big city, I have to say that I have always lived in the "bubble" right…

I read an article about the different zoning laws in areas all across the country and the view that Jane Jacobs actually had on this topic.  Interestingly, this article says, "Zoning has been hard, or overly rigid, in dividing our cities and towns into uniform, low-density districts, each dedicated to a single primary use.  And zoning has been soft, or overly permissive, in its failure to set design standards for streets, and for how buildings front upon those streets, that would reinforce…