It’s Dangerous To Cycle in The City — That’s Too Bad
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...
View ArticleAtlas 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 tracks that transport some five million of us daily, I...
View ArticleLearning 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 difficult to see how the words of noted Danish...
View ArticleMoving 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 and regional government. It was the inaugural edition...
View ArticleThe 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 the 1980s, the political scientist Francis Fukiyama caused a...
View ArticleLong Boats and Underground Vaults by the River Charles
By Alex Marshall For The Powhatan Review November 1999 Crewing is the ultimate wasp sport. It requires patience, diligence and years of work at the simple task of pulling oars through water, as you...
View ArticleRich People in Ugly Buildings
This story, about the New York apartment building, ran in Slate magazine. Because it is accompanied by slides, it is best to see it on Slate’s web site. The post Rich People in Ugly Buildings appeared...
View ArticleStreetsblog is My Blog
I’ve been contributing to Streetsblog.org a lot lately, which is a blog about the ongoing fight to make city streets more liveable and fertile. It’s edited by the virtuoso Aaron Naperstak. You can...
View ArticleInfrastructure as Architecture
I’ve started teaching a class on infrastructure at the architecture school at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark. See here for more info: NJIT Architecture School The two courses I teach,...
View ArticleJobs Was A Child of The ’60s
As the Grateful Dead said in a song about the death in 1970 or so of their harmonica player and singer “Pig Pen,” who also died of liver disease, “Like a steel locomotive, going down the track, he’s...
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