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What's holding up Cleveland's signature bike projects? 27 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
Some of Cleveland’s signature bike projects are starting to stack up, leading bike advocates to wonder if the city isn’t setting a high priority in bringing them to plan.
Ohio fracking photo tour 23 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
The shale gas drilling boom is not just a theoretical possibility for the 28,587 people of Carroll County, OH. They are already living with dramatic changes to the county’s woods and fields and rollin...
Great Lakes' cities brace for climate change 22 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
What is climate change doing to the water levels in the Great Lakes? Setting up a roller-coaster pattern of highs and lows. Lakes Michigan and Huron sunk while Erie was higher than normal this year, T...
See the 4-mile Cleveland bikeway plan 20 Aug 2013 | 11:00 am
Would you be more likely to bike from the Near West Side to downtown Cleveland if you knew a protected bike path was waiting for you on the sidewalk of Ontario Street? Would you bike your family down ...
In search of a haven, less nervy bikers look to green lanes 19 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
Grist.com recently visited bike capital Copenhagen to find out what they sprinkle in the Muesli of besuited men, fashionable women and little kids who fearlessly take to the streets on two wheels. The...
What Cincy sees in streetcar and walkable city codes 14 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
What is Cincinnati grasping about the path to urban revitalization that could inform Cleveland efforts? Similar population loss (40% since 1950) sapped much of the vitality, but not the strong urban c...
Why Greater Cleveland builds so few bike paths 13 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
The uncommon speed among peer cities with which Cleveland Heights is moving on its Circle-Heights Bike Plan is significant of...something. Already, the plan—which was funded by a NOACA Transportation ...
Moving beyond the highway era 9 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
How did we make such a mess of our cities and the pristine land around it? The history of Northeast Ohio, its outward migration and loss of tight-knit communities as we become what James Howard Kunstl...
Build more equal opportunity corridors 8 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
Northeast Ohioans are starting to absorb lessons and challenge “sacred cows” about any growth being good for a regional economy.
Reviving the Rust Belt 2 Aug 2013 | 11:00 am
Baby steps might be the only way to turn around America’s legacy cities like Cleveland, a new Lincoln Institute of Land Policy report suggests.
