Cities Must End Pedestrian Killings Among the lessons of COVID-19 is  that preventive health measures, and the lack thereof, make a huge difference. Longtime Streetsblog USA columnist turned author Angie Schmitt has long argued this. Her new book, Right of
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Pandemic Increases Value of Small Actions “Since World War II, a thicket of public-sector regulations and private-sector financial requirements have grown up around neighborhood zoning, parking requirements and rehabilitating older structures. Virtually every aspect of these systems that govern urban
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Get Inspired This Holiday Season! Since 2008 I have written four books on winning social change. What led me to write four books in one decade? I owe a tremendous debt to the University of California Press for supporting my
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New Books Highlight Green Transit Strategies From New York City’s 14th Street to San Francisco’s Market Street, cities are finally stopping cars from dominating the urban landscape. But there is much work left to be done.  This makes two new
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Fifty years ago this fall, a campus upsurge turned opposition to the Vietnam War into a genuine mass movement. On October 15, 1969, several million students, along with community-based activists, participated in anti-war events under the banner of the “Vietnam
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Four years ago, Barcelona voters made international news when they chose Ada Colau, a young feminist and housing rights activist, to be mayor of Spain’s second largest city. Colau was backed by Barcelona En Comu, a social movement coalition opposed
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Six Unusual Veterans Ponder Active Duty and Its Aftermath  It happens all the time in small towns and big cities across the country. A young person from a poor or working-class family can’t find a good job or afford to
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Peter’s Cole’s Dockworker Power (Illinois; $35) looks at the history of “dockers” in Durban, South Africa, which sits on the Indian Ocean, and dockworkers San Francisco, which sits in a place we all know very well. The comparisons and the
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