Urbanism on Scott J. Formanhttps://sjforman.me/tags/urbanism/Recent content in Urbanism on Scott J. FormanHugo -- gohugo.ioenMon, 25 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000ADU opportunities aboundhttps://sjforman.me/posts/adu-opportunities-abound/Mon, 25 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://sjforman.me/posts/adu-opportunities-abound/California and New York are blessed with incredible natural and economic advantages, but they&rsquo;re hemorrhaging people. They&rsquo;re driving people away by strangling their housing markets. People still want to live there. You can tell by the sky-high housing prices. But those same prices are forcing people to leave. What can be done?How to solve the looming autonomous traffic apocalypsehttps://sjforman.me/posts/solving-autonomous-traffic/Fri, 22 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://sjforman.me/posts/solving-autonomous-traffic/<p>The autonomous vehicle revolution promises three enormous benefits: millions of avoided deaths and maimings, more productive uses for the vast amounts of land we currently devote to parking (and gas stations, auto repair shops, dealerships, etc.). And most obviously, much cheaper mobility, which is straightforwardly a good thing.</p>Ebikes are extraordinaryhttps://sjforman.me/posts/ebikes-are-magic/Thu, 02 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://sjforman.me/posts/ebikes-are-magic/<p>I thought about getting an ebike for a few years before I finally pulled the trigger. With almost two thousand miles on the odometer, I&rsquo;m happy to report that these are utterly magical machines. If you&rsquo;re even remotely considering buying one, do. I&rsquo;m pretty confident you won&rsquo;t regret it.</p>Parking shouldn't be free, but it should be easyhttps://sjforman.me/posts/parking-easy-not-free/Tue, 23 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://sjforman.me/posts/parking-easy-not-free/<p>Most people hate paying for parking and fiercely resist attempts to make them do so. I wonder how much of that resistance isn&rsquo;t to cost <em>per se</em>, but rather to the annoyance of the process of paying.</p>Right now is the perfect moment to toll all the roadshttps://sjforman.me/posts/toll-all-the-roads-now/Fri, 15 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://sjforman.me/posts/toll-all-the-roads-now/Autonomous driving gives us a rare opportunity to prevent future traffic nightmares and steer the future of mobility towards the public good.