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Memorial Drive: Pandemic Detroit's Belle Isle park, which Project for Public Spaces had the honor of advising on in 2013, has become a powerful place to mourn and celebrate the lives of people lost to the pandemic. Watch a moving video of the project (Detroit Free Press), or read an interview with Rochelle Riley, the city’s Director of Arts, Culture & Entrepreneurship who organized the Memorial Drive (Bloomberg Cities).
The Neighborhood Trap: The huge social, economic, and health problems we tend to think of as global or national concerns are really playing out hyper-locally, in specific neighborhoods: inner-suburban apartment districts where most immigrants and other low-income groups have struggled to climb the economic ladder. It may well be that the most effective solutions can be found only at the neighborhood level, too (Globe and Mail).
Pedestrian Deaths Aren't Random: The recent traffic death of Avante Reynolds in the Cobbs Creek neighborhood of Philadelphia highlights a troubling national trend: despite years of lobbying, communities of color don’t get access to traffic safety measures with the same ease as predominantly white neighborhoods (WHYY). The systems that have led to persistent and inequitable traffic deaths across the country are the topic of Right of Way, a new book by journalist Angie Schmitt (Fast Company).
The Exodus that Wasn't: The media can't stop talking about the end of cities (Planetizen), but the data says that a mass migration to the suburbs isn’t happening (Curbed).
Building Community through Transportation: In order to head off a housing and real estate crisis, we need to reform land use and finance regulations to allow for mixed-use, walkable communities. But we will fail to avert the crisis if transportation engineers and planners don’t transform the streets that hold these places together (Public Square).
Use It or Lose it: The pandemic has deprived people of interactions with peers, and our social skills have atrophied (New York Times).
Streets for Pandemic Response & Recovery: The winners of a new grant will seek put roads to their highest and best use at this historic moment: helping the most undeserved residents of our cities (Streetsblog USA).
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