Keeping pedestrians indoors no longer seems like a smart way to bring downtowns back to life.

Crude oil at $60 per barrel has some bizarre fiscal side effects.

Want to create acres of new parks, link long-divided parts of your downtown, beautify an ugly freeway and do so without condemning a square inch of private land? Put a deck on top of your freeways. About 20 cities have decked portions of their freeways and many others are considering it.

The death of Seattle's monorail plan is a telling tale of the failure to capitalize on grassroots energy and gumption.

Small towns and cities are finding high-speed Internet access is as close as their electric grid.