Steve Price
Rightsizing the automobile for local mobility
Neighborhood electric vehicles offer a better local transportation option in light of climate threats, but the design of streets would...
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Steve Price
- Mar 14, 2021
- 2 min
Imagining a Walkable America
An inspiring and free online book imagining a low-carbon future for America's towns and cities In a hoped-for future our collective...
Steve Price
- Jul 20, 2020
- 1 min
Exhaust-free city centers by 2030!
Written with Mike Huston. Someday we may look back and wonder how we ever put up with breathing exhaust-filled air in our city streets.
Steve Price
- May 25, 2020
- 1 min
After the pandemic, human nature will keep cities alive
Sprawl may surge for a time if we ignore the fundamental needs of human habitat. Commentators in the newspapers and social media are...
Steve Price
- Nov 13, 2019
- 2 min
Can an electric bicycle take the place of a car?
The growing popularity of e-bikes will fuel greater demand for better bicycling infrastructure. People will only get more frustrated that au
Steve Price
- Sep 4, 2018
- 1 min
Socially Sustainable Communities
It’s About More than Friends and Families Articles in the popular press have suggested that there’s an epidemic of loneliness, that...
Steve Price
- Feb 20, 2018
- 2 min
Urban-Advantage.com upgrade
Urban Advantage images have evolved over the years, but the web site lagged. I've been creating photo-simulations of positive urban...
Steve Price
- Feb 10, 2018
- 3 min
Neighborhoods and Fish Bowls
Can urban places make us healthier? Most animals, if given the right environment, have no difficulty being active. That’s what animals...
Steve Price
- Dec 30, 2017
- 2 min
Don't Throw that Baby Out!
Development regulation is the new housing crisis culprit. Lately I’ve been reading articles that place the blame for America’s housing...
Steve Price
- Dec 30, 2017
- 6 min
Out from under illusory "Realism"
There are always good reasons for not doing the right thing. Years ago I served on the design review board (DRB) of my home town in the...
Steve Price
- Feb 19, 2017
- 6 min
"Zoned in the USA"
American zoning is a unique signature about our times. Form-based codes are a big improvement over conventional zoning, but that’s a hard...
Steve Price
- Oct 21, 2016
- 2 min
Loneliness, urban design, and form-based codes
A remarkable and growing body of literature is telling us that healthy communities need face-to-face interaction among their members,...
Steve Price
- Jul 20, 2016
- 4 min
Zoning: Uniting or Dividing Communities?
Zoning should knit communities together, not divide it. “Form-based codes aren’t cheap. If we keep the existing zoning map and add some...
Steve Price
- Jun 17, 2016
- 4 min
A Small City with a Big Vision
Chattanooga sees shaping the form of its downtown as key to its future. Chattanooga’s form-based code is part of an innovative vision for...
Steve Price
- Aug 25, 2013
- 3 min
Fundamentals of Fenestration
The quality of fenestration on building facades is key to making public spaces social. How much of a building exterior is covered with...