Images from "Tokyo Compression." Photo by Michael Wolf.

“Tokyo Compression” is a series of photographs by German-born, now Hong Kong-based photographer, Michael Wolf.

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p>Over the summer I had the opportunity to visit Arequipa, Peru’s southern-most major city, and see first hand all the work that the city and regional governments have done to make the city more pedestrian friendly.

Dan Koff, a friend of mine from college, recently passed this video along that his brother put together about a futuristic neighborhood in Sweden. The city is walkable and mass transit friendly and uses a neat waste treatment system. Don’t mind the ad at the beginning of the video.

The Federal Transit Administration recently released an updated edition of “Characteristics of BRT for Decision Makers” (PDF). This 400-page report is a very complete compendium of the bus rapid transit (BRT) experience in the United States, but it does not stop there — it also includes data and profiles of BRT systems in the rest [...]

Suburban sprawls California style. Photo by pbo31.

Suburban sprawls California style. Photo by pbo31.

Lee Schipper, a blogger for TheCityFix, talks about the future of mobility and movement in this podcast by EarthSky.