Jeff Wood • May 17, 2022 Michael E Smith, professor of anthropology at Arizona State University, describes how early cities thrived through energized crowding; Oslo plans for major emissions reduction; and how Seattle has radically changed within this past decade.
Jeff Wood • May 3, 2022 Last Tuesday would have been famed landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted’s 200th birthday. His thinking on design would change the way we think about urban parks and the restorative nature of green space in urban places. While most know of his most famous work of Central Park in New York City, he designed as part of his practice hundreds of other parks around the country. A new guide features some of these lesser-known spaces.
Jeff Wood • April 26, 2022 Along Roosevelt Avenue in Queens, more than 300 languages are spoken. As the 7 train runs over the “artery of life”, commerce explodes underneath with vibrancy and community. The street is a microcosm of the world and what goes on there sometimes impacts what happens on the other side of the globe.
Jeff Wood • April 22, 2022 Why green space doesn’t make suburbs more environmentally friendly than cities, how Japanese toddlers are more helpful to their parents and more on global urban trends.
Jeff Wood • April 19, 2022 This week on National Links: flood insurance set to receive major reforms, Oakland weighs the impact of losing a baseball team and the undervalued importance of “third places.”
Jeff Wood • April 8, 2022 How Boomers get the housing crisis wrong, why a poor sense of direction could be an early sign of dementia and more “old news.”
Jeff Wood • April 2, 2022 National Links examines why transit matters: in where we work, in the urgency to coordinate transit and housing, in the need for federal funding.
Jeff Wood • March 29, 2022 New research out of China shows that the mass urbanization of the country led by rural migration could be beneficial on the road to zero emissions.
Jeff Wood • March 22, 2022 How the design of our cities fails to promote our health and how one Texas city may turn to a crypto company to pay off its burdensome debts.
Jeff Wood • March 4, 2022 Denver’s failing rail system fails to serve neighborhoods, Paris will limit vehicular traffic to prepare for the Olympics, and the psychology of place.