Puerto Rico builds a train in the sky - ALEX MARSHALL Metropolis Magazine October 2001 The startling truth about San Juan, a metropolitan area of 1.4 million people in Puerto Rico, i

The Sex of Cities - [Excerpt From The Introduction] Children are supposed to turn to their parents at some point and ask innocently, "Daddy [or Mommy], where do bab

A Tale of Two Towns - - Kissimmee versus Celebration and the New Urbanism [Excerpt From Chapter One] "When you're building your own creation, Nothing's better than re

The End of Place - [Excerpt From Chapter Two] The Nature of Place Before the car, or more particularly before the highway, the essential challenge of cities was t

Conclusion - Getting There: Building Healthy Cities [Excerpt From Chapter Nine] Of all the public decisions that go into place-making, the most important

A Bicycle Can Get You From Here to There - That's Good For You, Good For Everyone Else. Wednesday, May 26, 1999 BY ALEX MARSHALL I'm going to talk about bikes today. So I'm going t

How Urban Should Your City Be? - What ‘urban’ does not mean, to me, is tolerating crime, incivility or trash. by Alex Marshall The New York Observer July - 2001 As the May

Moving Hampton Roads - "The Joseph Papers", Summer 2000. This paper was commissioned by The Joseph Center at Christopher Newport University for the study of local, state a

Coney Island: The Train is The Thing - by Alex Marshall Metropolis Magazine August/September issue, 2001 Today’s Quiz: What magnificent hall of marble, iron and glass, built about 1

Land Use: A Search For Common Ground - Joint Legislative Air and Water Pollution Control and Conservation Committee 9 a.m., June 14, 2000 Capitol East Wing, room 60E. Position Paper

Atlas Is Still Shrugging - And Riding the Subway - First published in The New York Observer March 25, 2002 by Alex Marshall When I take the subway, and enter into that labyrinth of tunnels and

The New Penn Station: When Will It Arrive? - The new Pennsylvania Station was originally due to open its doors this year, but the only noticeable progress has been the building's renaming for its

DC Metro: A Record of Reinvigorating a City - (Taken from the February 2004 issue of Planning Magazine.) Love (and Hate) That Metro It's a mess say some commuters — it's too expensive and t

Guns Don't Kill People; Cars Do. Or At Least Not As Many - On Foot Or On Wheels, Facing The Threat Whether you walk, drive or bicycle on your daily rounds, are you more in danger of getting killed from a b

The Future of Transportation, And Thus Our Cities - The Future of Transportation Will the auto and airplane reign supreme? By Alex Marshall With the fall of the Soviet Union at the end of th

Learning to Walk: Not Always So Easy in the Contemporary City - Driving along Route One in New Jersey last week, looking at the mammoth car dealerships and shopping centers lining the eight-lane highway, it was dif

David Gunn, Amtrak Prez, Speaks His Mind - David Gunn, the current president of Amtrak and the former head of New York City Transit, has had and will have great impact on transportation within

How Many Cyclists Can and Should Fit on City Streets? - The ferocious competition for a smidgen of asphalt on Manhattan streets might be best appreciated behind the handlebars of a bicycle. As I whiz up 8th