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Planning for Public Transit Use in Natural Disasters Can Save a City

Across the country, major cities have increasingly been facing natural disasters. In emergencies like these, transportation infrastructure comes under massive strain to get people out of harm’s way. This raises the question: how can we prepare systems designed for everyday needs to withstand the extreme?

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Ideas A crew works to put out a house fire. Firefighters kneel next to a red fire truck with its ladder extended while smoke billows out from the house behind.

Playing with Fire: The Importance of Meaningful Collaboration with Emergency Services

Firefighters, engineers, and planners are on the same team. We all want to help people get home safely and to save lives. To better understand both sides of the equation, we sat down with a firefighter emergency medical technician, a former Bay Area park ranger and wildland firefighter, and a coterie of Kittelson engineers and planners.

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Making Streets Safer, Faster: The Case for Quick-Build Roundabouts

How quick build roundabouts help communities improve safety, manage costs, and deliver timely intersection upgrades with community input.

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Reimagining Downtown: What Tampa’s CRA Can Teach Us About the Future of Urban Living

Exploring how Tampa’s CRA is shaping a downtown that balances growth, community, and connection to create a resilient, people-centered urban core.

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Global Ideas, Local Streets: How Transportation Ideas Travel Across the World

A look at how transportation concepts move across borders, highlighting shared challenges, cultural context, and ways cities adapt ideas to serve communities.

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Through Gateway Park: What Designing for Local Values Can Do

A small town in Oregon turned an old rest stop into Gateway Park, a mobility hub shaped by community values, flexible planning, and careful tree preservation.

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Ideas A hotel overlooking Alsea Bay on the Oregon Coast.

How a Small Oregon Town Is Slowing Down Roads and Speeding Up Community Trust

In Bayshore, Oregon, small-scale road safety projects show how changes like paint and speed humps can improve safety, walkability, and community trust.

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Running Interference: The Hidden Potential of D.C.’s Stadium Redevelopment

The DC Council advanced a proposal to demolish the aging RFK Stadium and redevelop it. This moment offers DC a chance to rethink how a football stadium connects with its neighborhood and the city.

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