Built environment and health review, November 2019
The Healthy City Design International Congress 2019 took place in London. 86 presentations on urban design, place-making, wellness, and health can be found here. Routing...
Built environment and health review, October 2019
Beginning this month, I’ll be sharing a short list what’s happening in research related to the built environment and health. Enjoy! Researchers find that most...
The built environment, climate change, and health
The National Climate Assessment (NCA) is an inter-agency project conducted by the United States federal government to track the latest estimates of how climate change...
Of Bats and Men
Can we design urban spaces to work for both bats and us? A million bats live underneath a bridge in downtown Austin – more bats...
Residential Density and Commuter Transit Use
Tableau, the U.S. Census Bureau, and data.world recently co-hosted a vizathon (hackathon for data visualization) at Capital Factory in Austin. I participated as a way...
Public Safety vs. Itself
Can firefighters and traffic safety advocates find a safe street width? The City of Austin is contemplating raising the minimum street width from 20 ft....
Fixing the Matrix
Transportation bond money could make a bigger bang-for-the-buck on quality of life measures if the algorithm were modified. The City of Austin is about to...