Beyond the Asphalt Template: Why Manheim Township Needs Context-Based Street Design 🛠️
Designing Manheim Township’s streets for the people who live here—not just the cars passing through.
Crosswalks: Smart Growth in Real Places
Crosswalks: Smart Growth in Real Places explores how towns large and small can grow stronger, more resilient, and people-centered—drawing lessons from communities in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and beyond.
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Stockholm: 🇸🇪 How Long-Term Policy Pays Dividends
Stockholm proved that transforming transportation isn't a political sacrifice—it’s an economic investment that pays dividends in public health, travel reliability, and municipal resilience.🚴♂️
🇳🇴 Seeing It with My Own Eyes: How Oslo Proved “Vision Zero” Isn’t a Slogan—It’s a Policy
Oslo achieved zero pedestrian and cyclist fatalities not by luck or "driver education," but through a deliberate municipal strategy that prioritized human life over private cars. 🚦
Escaping the Sprawl Trap: Infill, Incrementalism, and Manheim’s Fiscal Future
Manheim Township’s Rooted & Renewing 2035 Comprehensive Plan lays out a path for housing affordability and financial resilience.
🇩🇰 Bike Culture Myth: Copenhagen's Lessons
Seeing It with My Own Eyes — Part 2: Copenhagen
🚧 Minding the Gap: Why 25 Doesn't Mean 25 on Our Neighborhood Streets
A 20-Year-Old Policy, a 2035 Plan, and the Gap Between Them
🌍 Seeing It with My Own Eyes: What a Planner Sees Abroad
The difference between knowing and seeing
Six Months In: What a Different Kind of Local Government Looks Like
I was part of the problem. Here's what I learned after leaving.
Coordinate. Advocate. Implement. | Issue 2 of From the Committee Table🏗️
Two Meetings In: What the Comprehensive Plan Implementation Committee (CPIC) Is Actually Doing
💧 Progress, Finally — But the Hard Part Is Still Ahead
Why this story still matters.
Moving From Vision to Financial Reality: Manheim Township’s Path to Fiscal Sustainability
Smart Growth Is Fiscal Responsibility