Archive - ATL Urbanist Substack

Our lingering dream of pod cars in cities needs to end

More space-efficient modes of transportation are increasingly important for Atlanta's future.

Jun 12 •

May 2025

Our affordable housing should be more walkable than our self-storage facilities

When storage is located on the Beltline and near parks while deeply-affordable homes are on dangerous car-sewer roads, we've got a problem.

May 6 •

April 2025

Atlantic Station is an example of designed “driving preference”

If you're measuring your appreciation for infill density (or alternatives to driving) by this standard, you're doing it wrong.

Apr 9 •

December 2024

Mothball the Atlanta Streetcar?

It's an expensive device that needs great urbanism in order to provide a return on investment -- but we're not providing that urbanism.

Dec 20, 2024 •

A freeway interchange as "urban renewal" in Atlanta

The mistakes of Atlanta's Urban Renewal period have no yet been addressed as well as they should be. It's time to do so.

Dec 9, 2024 •

November 2024

Transit votes fail in Cobb & Gwinnett and I'm weary

Voters in Cobb and Gwinnett Counties both rejected chances to boost funding for transit in this election.

Nov 29, 2024 •

July 2023

We've known that car-centric urban design was a climate killer for decades. Can we finally act?

Monday was Earth’s hottest day in at least 125,000 years. Tuesday was hotter.

Jul 8, 2023 •

June 2023

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Jun 19, 2023 •

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