There are three basic elements to a superior urban experience, declares Author Joel Kotkin: economic power, personal security and sacredness.

A new way to texturize roadways tempers highway noise.

In most places, traffic cops don't get no respect for hanging around to nab drivers for their sins. In Seattle, however, two motorcycle cops are revered for patrolling a freeway ramp to stop drivers who cut in line.

When children in school and books in libraries can be tracked by radio waves, privacy advocates get all upset.

Our household is just like a state: good at forecasting revenue, but when it comes to expenditures, things get dicier.