Category: Car Blanche
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It’s time for The New York Times to get with the times
I recently applied for a writing fellowship. The application required an original piece in response to something that had been published in mainstream media. As I whittle away at a conference paper, I figured one girl’s rejected application could be fodder for the same girl’s next blog post! Below is…
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Using The Good Place to talk about our Bad Places
I recently read this Planetizen piece and as a fan of the television show The Good Place, I thought it was a brilliant idea to use a fun pop culture reference to explore a serious social problem through the lens of moral philosophy (and I was happy to see that…
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Can we have our car cake and eat it, too?
I had the good fortune to travel to Spain this summer – the land of bike buses, superblocks, and Pontevedra’s pioneering approach to eliminating cars in the city center – and visit many of the places that had long been on my urban bucket list (sadly, Pontevedra will have to…
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What could/would/should safe streets for all look like?
Yesterday I ran into my nemesis (yes I have a nemesis, and like any great nemesis, I’m fairly certain they don’t know they are my nemesis). Coincidentally, I happened to see them when I was examining an unsafe crosswalk with insufficient sightlines in my neighborhood. I recalled (to the extent…
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Bike buses: a research journey
It was fitting that I took the train back to DC on #worldbicycleday after riding along with five #bikebuses in four different cities over 12 days (with a few to join before the school year wraps up). So far I continue to be blown away by the efforts of adults…
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Streets are land, too
There’s a neat old housing development in my neighborhood where some of the homes (I never know if they are referred to as row homes or townhouses) are completely disconnected from surrounding car infrastructure (driveways, parking lots). They instead have front and back doors that face peaceful courtyards where the…
Peace and Planning 